66 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Black Spurwinged Goose, Plectropterus niger, which he had ascertained 
had been brought to Cape Town from Zanzibar. 
A communication was read from Dr. Morrison Watson and Dr. Alfred 
H. Young on the anatomy of the Spotted Hyena, Hyena crocuta. 
A communication was read from Mr. A. D. Bartlett, giving an account 
of the habits and changes of plumage of Humboldt’s Penguin, as observed 
in a specimen which had been recently living in the Society’s Gardens. 
A communication was read from Dr. O. Finsch, containing an account 
of a collection of birds, made by Mr. Huebner on Duke of York Island and 
New Britain. 
A communication was read from Mr. Edward J. Miers, deseribing a 
collection of Crustacea, made by Capt. H. C. St. John, R.N., in the Corean 
and Japanese Seas. The present paper related to the Podophthalmia of 
the collection, of which groups twenty-six species were described as 
apparently new to science. 
A communication was read from Count T. Salvadori, containing critical 
remarks on Mr. Elliot’s paper on the Fruit Pigeons of the genus Ptilopus, 
lately published iu the Society’s ‘ Proceedings.’ 
A communication was read from the late Marquis of Tweeddale, con- 
taining the twelfth of a series of contributions on the Ornithology of the 
Philippines. The present paper gave an account of the collections made by 
Mr. A. H. Everett in the Island of Basilan. 
Dr. A. Giinther gave an account of the Mammals, Reptiles and 
Batrachians recently collected by Mr. Everett in the Philippine Islands, 
and called special attention to a new form of Snake of the family Cala- 
mariid@, of which one example had been obtained. This Snake, which was 
remarkable as possessing no external rudiments of eyes, was proposed to 
be called Typhlogeophis brevis. —P. L. Sotaten, Secretary. 
Enromotoaicat Socizty or Lonpon. 
December 4, 1878.— H. W. Bates, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, 
in the chair. é 
Mr. T. P. Newman, of 7, York Grove, Peckham, was ballotted for and 
elected a Member. Mr. J. Walker, R.N., of Blue Town, Sheerness, was 
ballotted for and elected a Subscriber. 
Mr. H. T. Stainton exhibited a series of fine specimens of Glyphipteryx 
Schenicolella taken by Mr. Threlfall near Witherslack last summer. ‘They 
were flying over cotton-grass in little swarms just before sunset—literally 
by hundreds—and were mistaken at the time for G. Fischeriella. ‘I'he 
species was first recorded by Mr. Thomas Boyd in the ‘ Entomologists’ 
Weekly Intelligencer,’ vol. iv., p. 144. 
Mr. Wood-Mason exhibited and made remarks upon a stridulating beetle 
belonging to the Liutelide. 
