THE ZooLocist—Auveust, 1875. 4579 
A communication was read from the Rey. 8. J. Whitmee, of Samoa, 
respecting the changes he had observed in the habits of feeding, roosting 
and building of the Didunculus strigirostris. 
A second paper by Mr. Whitmee gave an account of the times of 
appearance of the edible marine worm (Palola viridis) in the islands of the 
Samoan group, together with observations on its habits. 
A communication was read from Dr. J. 8. Bowerbank, containing the 
fourth of a series of memoirs on the Siliceo-fibrous sponges. 
Sir Victor Brooke, Bart., and Mr. A. Basil Brooke read a joint paper on 
the large Asiatic wild sheep or argalis. Of these animals they recognised 
eight species, viz—Ovis Ammon, from the Altai between the Sea of Baikal 
and Thian Shan; O. Karelini, from the Thian Shan; O. Poli, from the 
Pamir; O. Hemsii, from the Alexandrian Mountains; O. nigrimontana, 
from the Karatau; O. Hodgsoni, from Little Thibet; O. nivicola, from the 
Stanovoi Mountains and Kamschatka; and O. Brookei, of which the habitat 
was unknown. 
Mr. Sclater read a paper on the rhinoceroses now or lately living in the 
Society’s Menagerie. 
This Meeting closes the present Session. There will be no more 
Scientific Meetings until the commencement of the next Session in 
November.—P. L. Sclater. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SocrETy oF LonpDon. 
June 7, 1875.—Sir Srpney SmirH SaunpeErs, C.M.G., President, in the 
chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the 
donors :—‘ Proceedings of the Royal Society,’ no. 161; presented by the 
Society. ‘ Bullettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana,’ tome vii., trim. 1; 
by the Society. ‘Mittheilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen 
Gesellschaft,’ vol. iv., nos. 6 and 7; by the Society. ‘Stettiner Entomo- 
logische Zeitung,’ tome xxxvi., nos. 4—6; by the Society. ‘ Bulletin de 
la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, Année 1874,’ no.3; by the 
Society. ‘Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences,’ vol. ii., 
nos. 8 & 4; by the Society. ‘A Monographic Revision and Synopsis of the 
Trichoptera of the European Fauna,’ by Robert M‘Lachlan, F.L.S., &e., 
part ii.; by the Author. ‘The Canadian Entomologist,’ vol. vii., no.4; by 
the Editor. ‘Revision de la Monographie des Elatérides,’ par Ernest 
Candéze, M.A., &c., le fasc.; by the Author. ‘Du Doryphora decem- _ 
lineata,’ par A. Prudhomme de Borre; by the Author. ‘ Descriptions 
of American Lepidoptera,’ nos. 2—5; ‘Remarks on Dr. Boisduval’s 
