4042 The Zoologist — June, 1874. 



Mr. Blandford exhibited and made remarks on a series of heads of the 

 ibex of Persia, which he considered to be referable to Capra segagrus. 



Mr. A. H. Garrod read a paper on the anatomy of the ColumbiE, in 

 which a new arrangement of that group of birds was proposed, based upon 

 certain points not hitherto sufficiently investigated. 



A communication was read from Dr. Julius Haast, containing the descrip- 

 tion of a new species of Euphysetes (Euphysetes Pottsi), a remarkably small 

 Catodont whale, which had occurred on the coast of New Zealand. 



A communication was read from Mr. Frederick Moore, containing a list 

 of Diurnal Lepidoptera collected in Cashmere by Captain R. B. Reed, 12th 

 Regiment, with descriptions of new species. 



A communication was read from Mr. A. G. Butler, containing a complete 

 list of the known Diurnal Lepidoptera of the South Sea Islands. 



Mr. Howard Saunders read a paper on the gray-capped gulls, in which 

 several species hitherto confounded were distinguished. 



A paper was read by Dr. A. Giiuther, entitled "A Contribution to the 

 Fauna of Savage Island," in which several new lizards peculiar to this 

 remote Pacific Island were described, and other animals found in it were 

 mentioned. 



A communication was read from Dr. J. S. Bowerbank, containing the 

 sixth part of his " Contributions to a General History of the Spongiada;." 



Mr. R. B. Sharpe read a paper on a small collection of birds made in 

 Bulama, one of the Bissagos Islands, "West Africa, by Lieut. Bulger. 



ENTOMOLOaiCAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



May 4, 1874. — Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, C.M.G., President, in the 



chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 

 donors: — 'Proceedings of the Royal Societj',' no. 151; presented by the 

 Society. ' Verhandlungen der k. k. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in 

 Wien,' xiii. band ; by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Linnean Society of 

 London,' Meetings 19th March and 2nd April ; by the Society. ' Tijdschrift 

 voor Eutomologie,' 2nd ser. viii. ; by the Entomological Society of the 

 Netherlands. ' Sepp's Nederlandsche Insecten,' 2nd ser. iii. nos. 13 — 24 ; 

 ' Schetsen ten gebruike bij de Studie der Hymenoptera,' i. — iv. ; by the 

 Author, Dr. S. C. Snellen von Yollenhoven. 'L'Abeille,' tome ix. livr. 9; 

 by the Editor. ' The Canadian Entomologist,' vol. vi. no. 3 ; by the Editor. 

 'The Zoologist' and 'Newman's Entomologist' for May; by the Editor. 

 ' The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' for May ; by the Editors. 



By purchase. — ' Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synony- 

 micus et systematicus,' autoribus Dr. Gemminger et B. de Harold, tom. x. 



