76 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Dr. A. Giinther read the description of a new species of dwarf Antelope, 
obtained by Dr. Kirk near Brava in the South Somali country. Dr.Ginther 
proposed for this new species the name of Neotragus Kirki. 
A communication was read from Mr. Martin Jacoby, containing the 
description of new species of Phytophagous Coleoptera. 
A communication was read from Prof. J. Reay Greene, on a remarkable 
Medusa, Charybdea haplonema, from Santa Catharina, Brazil. 
Mr. Edward R. Alston read a description of a skull of a Chamois with 
four horns, which had been exhibited at a previous meeting of the Society. 
Mr. Henry Seebohm read a paper “On certain obscure Species of 
Siberian, Indian and Chinese Thrushes.—P. L. Scuarer, Secretary. 
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 
Biologia Centrali-Americana. Edited by F. D. Gopman and 
Ospert Satvix. 4to. London: published by the Authors. 
Unper this title Messrs. Godman and Salvin have commenced 
the publication of a series of quarto volumes upon the Fauna and 
Flora of Mexico and Central America—i. e., the whole of Mexico 
from the valleys of the Rio Grande and Gila on the north, the 
five Central-American States of Guatemala, Honduras, San 
Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, British Honduras, and the 
Colombian State of Panama as far south as the Isthmus of 
Darien. During the past twenty-two years the Editors have been 
collecting materials for this work. They have themselves visited 
parts of the country, and spent several years there; and during 
the whole of the above period they have received collections from 
correspondents, and from naturalists specially employed in 
visiting many of the previously unexplored districts. The 
materials thus obtained have been partly retained by the Editors 
in their own collection, and partly so distributed as to be most 
readily available for the present work. In addition to these 
materials, the Editors propose that all specimens obtained by 
other travellers should be examined, wherever they may be 
accessible, so as to make the work as complete a record as possible 
of what is known of the animal and vegetable life of the country 
under investigation. 
We learn from a Prospectus of the work that it will be issued 
in zoological and botanical parts, each containing an average of 
