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considered to be hitherto unknown. Amongst the latter was a new genus 
and species of Eryada, proposed to be called Erabophis asper. 
Mr. H. W. Bates gave an account of the Coleoptera collected, and 
remarked that the collection comprised forty-four species, and contained 
some of the finest species of the New Guinea fauna. Amongst these 
were many examples of a new Longicorn, proposed to be called Batocera 
Browni, after its discoverer. 
March 6, 1877.—Dr. E. Hamitron, 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 February, and called parti- 
cular attention to a Mexican Eared Owl (Asio mezicanus), purchased of a 
dealer in Liverpool, and said to have been received from Para, being the 
first example of this very well-marked species of Eared Owl which had 
been received alive, and a Rhea, purchased along with the above-mentioned 
Owl, which appeared to belong to the species distinguished in 1860 as 
Fihea macrorhyncha (Trans. Zool. Soc. iv., p. 856, pl. Ixix.), from an 
example then living in the Society’s Gardens. 
Mr. E. W. H. Holdsworth exhibited and made remarks on a rare bird 
received from Ceylon, Geocichla Layardi. 
Professor Owen communicated some notes made by Mr. G. F. Bennett, 
while exploring the burrows of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, in Queens- 
land, with comments on them. 
A communication was read from Lieut-Col. R. H. Beddome, containing 
the descriptions of three new snakes of the family Uropeltide, from 
Southern India. 
Mr. A. G. Butler read the descriptions of some new species of Hetero- 
cerous Lepidoptera in the collection of the British Museum, from Madagascar 
and Borneo. Amongst the latter was the type of a new genus, proposed 
to be called Mimeuplea. 
Mr. G. French Angas read a paper in which he gave descriptions of a 
new species of Bulimus from Western Australia, and a Paludinella from 
Lake Eyre, South Australia; these he popes to call respectively Bulimus 
Ponsonbyi and Paludinella Gilesi. 
A second paper by Mr. Angas contained the descriptions of one genus 
and twenty-five species of marine shells from New South Wales. 
Mr. Angas also read a further list of additional species of marine Mol- 
lusca to be included in the fauna of Port Jackson and the adjacent coasts of 
New South Wales, with remarks on their exact localities, &c., thus 
bringing up the number of species now ascertained to inhabit Port Jackson 
and the adjoining shores to a gross total of 693. 
Mr. Phineas S, Abraham read a paper containing a revision of the 
Anthobranchiate Nudibranchiate Mollusca. The paper comprised a 
