306 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Mr. George French Angas communicated notes on a collection of land 
and fresh-water shells from S.W. Madagascar; amongst these Mr. Angas 
pointed out three new species of Helix, one of Bulimus, and one of Physa, 
which he proposed to call Helia Watersi, H. Balstoni, H. ekongoensis, 
Bulimus Balstoni, and Physa madagascariensis. 
A second communication from Mr. Angas contained the description ofa 
remarkable shell from Japan, which he named Thatchera mirabilis ; also the 
description of a new species of Leiodomus, from Kurrachi, Seinde, proposed 
to be called L. kurrachensis. 
June 19, 1877.—E. W. H. Hotpsworrts, Esq., F.Z.S., Vice-President, 
in the chair. 
The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been eine to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of May, 1877, and called particular 
attention to a Pangolin, Manis tricuspis, purchased May 24th, being, so far 
as was known, the first example of this remarkable form of Edentata that 
had ever reached the country alive; a male of the new Mesopotamian 
Fallow Deer, lately described and figured by Sir Victor Brooke, in the 
Society’s ‘ Proceedings,’ as Cervus Mesopotamicus (see ‘ Zoologist’ for March 
last, p. 94); and an animal purchased on the 29th May as a Cheetah, but 
which appeared to belong to a new species of the genus Felis, distinct from, 
although closely allied to, that animal—for this the temporary designation 
of Felis lanea, or Woolly Cheetah, was proposed. 
The Secretary read a letter addressed to him by Mr. J. M. Cornély, 
announcing that his female Hydropetes inermis had just produced three 
young ones. 
Mr. J. E. Harting exhibited and made remarks on a variety of the 
common Snipe, intermediate in colour between the usual form of that 
species and the so-called Sabine’s Snipe. This bird, shot in Ireland and 
forwarded by Mr. Douglas Ogilby, was described by Mr. Williams in ‘ The 
Zoologist’ for January last (pp. 28, 24). 
Mr. B. Tegetmeier exhibited a specimen of a curiously malformed 
sternum of the Tawny Owl. 
Mr. John Murray, Naturalist to the ‘ Challenger’ Expedition, exhibited 
and made remarks on a series of Sharks’ teeth, Whales’ ear-bones, and 
other specimens dredged up at great depths during the ‘ Challenger’ 
Expedition. 
Mr. P. L. Sclater read the first of a series of reports on the collection of 
birds made during the voyage of H.M.S. ‘ Challenger,’ containing general 
remarks on the collection, which was stated to consist of about 679 skins of 
terrestrial and 198 of oceanic birds, besides a considerable series of speci- 
mens in salt and in spirit, and a collection of eggs, principally of the 
oceanic species. 
