4304 THE ZooLocisT—JANUARY, 1875. 
Army, had presented to the Society’s library a very finely illustrated manu- 
script work, in seven small folio volumes, on the Ornithology of India. 
A communication was read from Mr. J. Brazier, of Sydney, New South 
Wales, giving descriptions of eleven new species of terrestrial and marine 
shells from North-East Australia. 
A paper, by Messrs. P. L. Sclater and O. Salvin, was read on birds 
collected by Mr. Whitely in Western Peru, being the eighth communication 
made by the authors on this subject. 
A communication was read from Mr. H. Whitely, containing some further 
notes on humming birds collected by him in High Peru. 
Mr. A. G. Butler read a paper in which he gave descriptions of three new 
species of Homopterous insects from various parts of the world. 
Mr. A. H. Garrod gave some further particulars on the mechanism of the 
“shew off” in the bustards, and described the peculiar structure of the 
Jrenum lingu@ recently noticed in a young male of the great bustard. 
EntomoLoaicaL Society oF Lonpon. 
November 2, 1874.—Sir Sipney Smira Saunpers, 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 Society,’ nos. 153—155; presented 
by the Society. ‘ Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological 
Society of London,’ 1874, parts 2 and 3; by the Society. ‘The Journal of 
the Quekett Microscopical Club,’ no. 27; by the Club. ‘Annales de la 
Société Entomologique de Belgique,’ t. xvii. fasc.1; by the Society. ‘ Bul- 
letin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences,’ vol. ii.,no.2; by the Society. 
‘Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung,’ 1874, nos. 7—9; by the Society. 
‘ Boletin de la Academia Nacional des Ciencias Exactas existente en la 
Universidad de Cordova,’ entrega i., ii.; by the Academy. ‘ Bulletin de la 
Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,’ 1873, no. 4, and 1874, 
uo. 1; by the Society. ‘Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 
(Session 1873—74); by the Society. ‘ Memoires de l’'Académie Royale des 
Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique,’ t. xl.; by the Academy. 
‘ Bulletins de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux- 
Arts de Belgique,’ Ser. 2, t. xxxv. and xxxvi.; by the Academy. ‘ Mitthei- 
lungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft,’ vol. iv., Heft 
no. 5; by the Society. ‘ Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural 
History,’ vol. xv. pts. 3 and 4; vol. xvi. pts. 1 and 2; by the Society. 
‘Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History,’ vol. ii., part ii., 
no. iv.; part ili, nos. i. and ii; by the Society. ‘The Transactions of 
the Linnean Society,’ vol. xxviii, part 4; vol. xxx., part 1; by the 
