30 Annual Report. [Fee. 



Fi!Hi points out that if tlie species is a distinct one it will stand as 

 riuilacrori'i'ia- viehmogeniis (Blytli). 



In the next paper Mr. Finn in conjunction with Lieut. H. H. Turner 

 g-jves II note on two lare Indian plieasants from the Chin Hills of 

 Upp'r Burma. 



Ill the ninth pnpei- Mr. Finn records " Nofe.s on the Structure and 

 Fnnition of the Tiaclieal Bulb in mule Anatidse.'" He describes the 

 stinetu'C of the ir:ichesi in four drakes, and tlie sound made by both 

 Sixes of nine species of ducks. 



In tlie tenth papei- Mf. Lionel de Niceville records a "Note on 

 Calinnqn, an aberrant genus of Asiatic Butteiflies." Different structural 

 chaiacters are describt d, and notes on the geographical distribution of 

 the five known species are added. He thinks it probable that the 

 r-enus sliould be placed in tlie family Nyiuphalichv, and iu the subfamily 

 Danainie, near the genus Radena. 



The eleventh paper is by Captain H. J. Walton, who gives copious 

 notes on 157 species of biids collected or observed by him in Kumaon 

 in tlie months of April to July. 



Maior D. Prain in the twelfth paper describes twelve new plants 

 from Eastern India, and in the fhirfeemh gives a list of the Asiatic 

 snecies of Oni.osia. A key to these plants is given, also a table of 

 distribution of the South-Eastern- Asiatic spe(!ies of the genus, '22 in all. 

 The fourteenth ]iaper is by Mr, Lionel de Kiceville, and consists of 

 n list of the known fond-plants of the butterflies of the Kanara Distiict 

 of S-'Uthern India, and a revision of tlie species of butterflies there 

 oceurriug. In part I, 194 species of plants are named, and the names 

 of the butterflies which feed on them in the larval state are given under 

 each In pa)-t II, 245 species of butteiflies known to occur in Kiinara 

 are listed, with the plants noted under each name on which their hirvoe 

 seed This is the first time such lists have ever been published out of 

 > merica, and should prove of interest both to the botanist and to the 

 entomologist. Incidentally a list of the butterflies of the family 

 Lvcxnidx is given which in the larval or pupal stages or both are 

 attended by ants, 27 species of butteiflies in all. Descriptions are also 

 eiven for the first time of the transformations of many of the butterflies. 

 Similar lists are given of a few butterflies and their food-plants from 

 the Western Himalayas and Kashmir. 



In the fifteenth paper the editor of this part of the Journ:il gives a 

 note tin the synonvmy of the avian genus Htopactes, Swaiison, which 

 name, being pre-oceupied, will have to fall before tyiotrogon, Bunapaite, 

 when used for biids. 



The sixteenth paper of 177 pages by Major A. Alcock entitled 



