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answer, after an interval of so many weeks. That snake was a 

 puzzle up to this day and was labelled with his name in the 

 Calcutta Museum. — Mr. Urich mentioned that amongst some 

 ticks recently sent for determination to Dr. Marx, was Ambyloma 

 adspersttm, a genus which seems to prefer living on reptiles, and 

 which infested the ordinary toads found in Port-of-Spain. 

 According to Dr. Marx the same species has been recorded from 

 Barbados, Nicaragua and the Phillipine Islands — a rather wide 

 and remarkable distribution of the species. A discussion on the 

 tick pest of Jamaica ensued in which Sir John took a lively part, 

 mentioning amongst other things, that the zebu cattle did not 

 suffer at all from these pests. It was curious, he said, to see how 

 some cows were attacked and others not ; Tobago cattle were 

 comparatively free from attack. — The Secretary read the 

 result of an examination of some Trinidad Borers by Mr. W. F. 

 Blandford ; they were Xyleborus confusus, Eich, found at 

 Caparo by Mr. A. B. Carr, doing damage to cocoa 

 trees; Thiune championi from Caparo, not a destructive 

 insect, but rather a parasite on some other Borer. A 

 new species allied to Xyleborus capucinus found by Mr. Potter 

 at St. Ann's where it had destroyed a young cocoa tree and a 

 Platypus not identified for want of more specimens. — Mr. 

 Mole exhibited a small galap (or mud tortoise) with a 

 jointed plastron by which it shut itself in when it had with- 

 drawn its head and feet beneath the shelter of its carapace ; 

 also a kinkajou (Cercoleptes caudivolvuhis) from Venezuela which 

 was much admired for its soft fur, gentle manners and curious 

 gestures. — The Secretary placed on the table some starfish, dredged 

 up from the second Bocas by the Hon. W. Gordon-Gordon, 

 which seemed to he Aster oporpa annulata. — TheSecretary exhibited 

 two young mapepires (Lachesis muta) which were taken from 

 their mother by Mr. H. Hutton at Poole ; there were a great 

 many more, probably 40. — Mr. Mole said it was a curious 

 fact nearly every snake in Trinidad was " mapepire something 

 or other," but on this occasion, when the labourers dis- 

 covered a real " mapepire," they called it a tigre — a snake 

 which is considered tolerably harmless, and it was only Mr. 

 Hutton, who knew what a terrible reptile they had encountered 

 and warned the men off so that he could shoot it. — Mr. Cumber- 

 land called attention to a young wood dog, Galictis barbara, from 

 Venezuela which by its playfulness and quaint antics caused 

 much amusement . — Mr. Lechmere Guppy showed a large case of 

 fine butterflies recently taken, amongsl which figured some 

 specimens of a very delicate and beautiful structure which had 

 made their appearance in Port-of-Spain lately and which 

 many old collectors had never previously seen : he also laid on 

 the table some well prepared birds skins by Mr. Gray and an 



