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H. K. Collens and R. 11 Mole, together with exchanges, form 

 the nvicleiis of the library which the Club one day hopes to 

 possess. 



With regard to the work of the Club Mr. Urich has given 

 us ail elaborate paper on the External Anatomy of the Eneehidafi 

 giyns (Bonnett), illustrated with dissections beautifully mounted 

 on glass. Messrs. Urich and I\Iole have placed at our disposal 

 the copy of a paper Avritteu by them and read before the 

 Zoological Society of London on several snakes and lizards pre- 

 sented by them to the Society's collection, two of Avhich, a 

 Machete (Herpetodnjas curinains), and a Plica lizard (Uranis- 

 codon plica), were new to the collection. 



A new species of butterfly (Tithorea ^fiiti-enceus), has been 

 captured by Mr. Broadway, and a new bat (Vumpijiops 

 cai-aceioJcp), by myself. Mr. Broadway has also made one of 

 those discoveries that fcAV men have the opportunity of doing. 

 He foiuid a new genus of dragon fly which has not yet been 

 described. Mr. Broadway is to be complimented on his find. 

 Mr. Mole has given us a most interesting paper on the boa 

 Epicrntcs ceuchn's, and all will be pleased to learn it has been 

 criticized most favourably by Mr. Morris of Kew. 



Mr. Guppy has shown some beautiful paintings of butterflies 

 done by himself and other paintings and prints of the complete 

 iiiptamorphoses of some have been shown by myself, the wings 

 of the butterflies lieing reproduced by a process in which alum, 

 sugar candy and salt are the principal agents employed. Mr. 

 Potter has treutcul us to an able paper on bees, which must have 

 proved interesting to the most indifferent to the study of 

 Natural History. Mr. Hev.'lett has given us a thoughtful paper 

 on the metamorphoses of insects and Mr. Eagle on Gi/noiidro- 

 iiiorplilxiii, or the union of both sexes in Lepidopieva — two most 

 valuable papers. Mr. Guppy, in one of our first excursions, was 

 fortunate enough to capture the largest moth known here, Avhich 

 probal)!}' belongs to the genus Thi/niniia. This moth was about 

 nine inches across the wings. 



In another Mr. Mole secured a fine specimen of the 

 Peripatus, Edirai-dnii, which is very rarely to be met with even 

 where it is most common. Two other specimens have been cap- 

 tured by Mr. Urich at Arouca. 



With regard to these creatures it may be interesting to 

 mention that in the year 1883 a German scientist, Dr. Von 

 Kennel, crossed the Atlantic for no other purpose than to procure 

 specimens of the Peripatus, the life history of which is still in- 

 volved in considerable mystery. The group of Perlpattdiv is 

 perhaps equivalent and allied to the Mi/ridixida or centipedes, 

 with some affulities to the Tn rd'ujrudes or bear animalcules, 



