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of a female Yellow-backed Duiker [Cephalophns sylvicultrix] which had been 

 obtained in the Awemba district of North-eastern Rhodesia, and presented 

 to the British Museum hy Mr. Robert Codrington. This species had pre- 

 viously been known only from West Africa. — Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited 

 the skin of an animal which it had been suggested was a hybrid between a 

 Hare and a Rabbit, but which proved to be merely a variety of a Hare. Mr. 

 Tegetmeier also exhibited a skull of a Rabbit showing overgrown incisors 

 in both jaws. — Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., read a paper (illustrated 

 with lantern-slides) by Mr. R. Shelford, Curator of the Sarawak Museum, 

 on cases of mimicry amongst Bornean Insects and Spiders. The author, who 

 had carefully studied this subject in the Malay Archipelago, had made some 

 striking discoveries, and among them were; 1) the well-marked mimetic re- 

 semblance of the Maniispidae to the Hymenoptera; 2) the wonderfully large 

 and complex group of insects of all kinds which mimicked the common 

 Dammar Bee [Trigona apicalis] ; 3) the large amount of mimicry in Longicorn 

 Beetles, some resembling Hymenoptera, others Phytophaga, others Lycidae^ 

 and others Rhynchophora; 4) the fact that Longicorns of the genus Chlorido- 

 lum and also of some genera of Clytinae were mimicked by other Longicorns; 

 and 5) the re-discovery of the Locustid Condylodera t t-icondy hides ^ formerly de- 

 scribed by Westwood from Java, being a splendid mimic of the Cicindelid 'Iri- 

 rondyla. — A communication was read from Mr. F. H. A. Marshall, describ- 

 ing the variation in the number and arrangement of the male genital aper- 

 tures in the Norway Lobster [Nephrops norvégiens)^ as observed on an exa- 

 mination of a series of 1080 specimens of this Crustacean. — A paper was 

 read by Dr. Einar Lönnberg chiefly dealing with the alimentary canal of 

 Trichosu?-uSj Psrudochirus^ Phalanger^ and Petaurits. The varying length of 

 the different sections of the gut and their structure were correlated with the 

 varied food of these Marsupials. — A communication from Dr. L. von Lo- 

 renz, C.M.Z.S. , gave an account of the Quagga [Equus quagga] in the Im- 

 perial Museum of Natural History at Vienna, and pointed out its diflferences 

 from other known specimens of this animal. — Mr. J. Lewis Bonhote con- 

 tributed a paper on a small collection of Mammals made by Mr. Th. H. Lyle 

 in Siam. Of the eight species enumerated in the paper, a Hare was described 

 as new under the name of Lepus siamensis. — A communication from 

 Dr. A. G. Butler contained an account of two collections of Lepidoptera 

 made by Sir H. H. Johnston, K.C.B., in the Uganda Protectorate during the 

 year 1900. The species, of which specimens were contained in the collection, 

 were enumprated, and three of them, viz. Harma Johnstoni^ Pseudathyma plu- 

 tonica, and Aphnaeus Hollandi, were described as nev/. — Mr. W. L. Di- 

 stant communicated a paper on the Insects of the Order Rhynchota collected 

 by Sir H. H. Johnston, K.C.B., in the Uganda Protectorate, in which it was 

 pointed out that the species, of which specimens were contained in the collec- 

 tion, showed marked affinities with the West- African forms of these Insects. — 

 February 4th, 1902. — The Secretary read a report on the additions 

 that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of January 

 1902, and called special attention to a female White-tailed Gnu [Connochaetes 

 gnu] and three Red-River Hogs [Potaviochoerus penicillatus] born in the Me- 

 nagerie, and to nine Pheasant-tailed Jacanas [Hydrophasianus chirurgus)^ from 

 India, presented by Mr. Frank Finn, F.Z.S. No examples of the Pheasant- 

 tailed Jacana had been previously received by the Society. — A communi- 



