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Lieut. -Col. Sir ü. B. C. St. John, F.Z.S., which should probably be re- 

 ferred to the species shortly noticed by Blyth as Vulpes Griffithi. It was, 

 however, somewhat doubtful whether the species was really distinct from 

 Vxdpes leucopus , Blyth, the small Desert Fox of Western India. — Mr. 

 Francis Day, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on some hybrid fishes 

 from Howietown, and on a British specimen of the Spined Loche. — Mr. 

 Oldfield Thomas, F.Z.S., read a report on a collection of Mammals ob- 

 tained by Emin Pasha in Central Africa , and pi'esented by him to the 

 Natural-History Museum. The collection contained 115 specimens belonging 

 to 39 species. The great mass of the collection had been obtained in a district 

 called Monbuttu, just within the Congo Basin. A new Flying Squirrel, of 

 small size, was named Anoinalurus pusUlus, and a new Tree-Hyrax, Dendro- 

 hyrax Emini, after its discoverer. — Capt. G. E. Shelley, F.Z.S., read a 

 paper on a collection of birds made by Emin Pasha in Equatorial Africa. The 

 series had been formed partly in the Upper Nile district and partly in the 

 Monbuttu country in the Congo Basin, and contained examples of four species 

 new to science, proposed to be called Indicator Eynini, Spermospiza ritßcapilla, 

 Ploceits castaììops, and Glareola Emini. — Dr. A. Günther, F.R.S., read 

 a report on a collection of Reptiles and Batrachians from Monbuttu, sent by 

 Emin Pasha. The author enumerated seventeen specimens, of which nine 

 w^ere almost generally distributed over the African region ; of the remainder, 

 seven were known from various parts of West Africa. One Tree-Snake was 

 described as new, and called, after its discoverer, Ahaetulla Emini. — Mr. 

 Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S., read an account of the Shells collected by Dr. 

 Emin Pasha on the Albert Nyanza , Central Africa. Of the five species of 

 which examples were obtained, three were referred to new species. It was 

 stated that fifteen species of Shells were now known from Lake Albert, of 

 which seven were peculiar to it. — Mr. Arthur G. Butler, F.Z.S., gave 

 an account of the Lepidoptera received from Dr. Emin Pasha. The collection 

 contained examples of 155 species, of which thirteen Butterflies and two 

 Moths were new to science. — A communication w-as read from Mr. Charles 

 O. Waterhouse containing an account of the Coleoptera from Eastern 

 Equatorial Africa received from Emin Pasha. One of the species was new to 

 science, and six of them had previously been received at the British Museum 

 from West Africa only. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



2. Notiz. 



Dr. Franz Stuhlmann, Assistent am zool.-zootomischen Institut 

 in Würzburg, wird Ende Februar mit Unterstützung der Königlichen Aca- 

 démie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin eine Reise nach der Ostküste Africas zu 

 zoologischen Studien antreten. Er gedenkt zunächst nach Sansibar, später 

 vielleicht noch nach Madagascar zu reisen. Briefe und Sendungen sind 

 während seiner Reise nach Hamburg-Bergfelde, Mittelweg, oder nach San- 

 sibar, care of Hansing & Co., zu schicken. 



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