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Lieut.-Colonel Beddome gave the description of a new species of Indian 
Snake from Manantawaddy in the Wynaad Hills, which he proposed to 
name Platyplecturus Hewstont. 
Dr. G, E. Dobson communicated a monograph of the Bats of the group 
Molossi. 
Dr. A. Giinther read a report on some of the recent additions to the 
Collection of Mammalia in the British Museum, amongst the most 
remarkable of which was a new form of Porcupine, from Borneo, proposed 
to be called Trichys lipura; and a new Marmozet, obtained by Mr. T. K. 
Salmon, near Medellin, U.S. of Columbia, to which the name Hapale 
leucopus was given. 
November 21, 1876.—Prof. Ftowrr, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the chair. 
The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of October. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on the skin of a young Rhino- 
ceros (Rf. sondaicus), belonging to Mr. W. Jamrach, which had been 
captured in the Sunderbunds, near Calcutta, in May last. 
The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Andrew Anderson, a coloured 
drawing of a specimen of Hmys Hamiltont, lately captured at Futtehgurh 
(Ganges). The occurrence of this E’mys, chiefly confined to Lower Bengal, 
so far west as Futtehgurh, was considered as of much interest. 
A letter was read from Count T. Salvadori, containing remarks on some 
of the birds mentioned by Signor D’Albertis, as seen by him during his first 
excursion up the Fly River. 
A communication was read from Mr. G. B. Sowerby, jun., containing 
descriptions of six new species of shells, from the collections of the 
Marchioness Paulucci and Dr. Prevost. 
Mr. Edward R. Alston read a paper containing the descriptions of two 
new species of Hesperomys from Central America, which he proposed to call 
respectively Hesperomys teqguina and H. Couest. 
A paper was read by Professor Garrod on the Chinese Deer, named 
Lophotragus michianus, by Mr. Swinhoe, in which he contended that the 
species so called was identical with Elaphodus cephalophus (A. Milne- 
Edwards), obtained by Pére David in Moupin. He pointed out the close 
affinity between the genera Hlaphodus and Cervulus, the latter differing 
little more than in the possession of frontal cutaneous glands not found in 
the former. 
- Mr. Arthur G. Butler read a paper containing descriptions of new species 
of Lepidoptera from New Guinea, with a notice of a new genus. 
A communication was read from Dr. J. 8. Bowerbank, being the 
eighth of his series of “Contributions to a General History of the 
Spongiade.” 
