PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 139 
ZooLoeicaL Society or Lonpon. 
March 5, 1878.—Professor Newron, M.A., 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 February, and called special 
attention to a pair of Persian Leopards, deposited by Captain Phillips 
on the 18th ult. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on a second collection of birds 
from Duke of York Island, New Britain and New Ireland, which he had 
received from the Rev. George Brown. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks upon a specimen of Athene 
variegate and upon the type specimen of Hulica gallinuloides of King, 
belonging to the Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh, 
Professor Newton drew attention to the statement of Leguat that every 
Solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) carried a stone in its gizzard, and exhibited 
one of three stones found by Mr. Caldwell associated with the remains of 
as many birds of that species in the caves of Rodriguez. 
Mr.T.J. Parker described the stridulating apparatus of Palinurus vulgaris 
which consisted in a peculiar modification of the second joint of the antennee 
working against the lateral surface of the antennulary sternum. 
A communication was read from Mr. C. Spence Bate, containing an 
account of the Crustaceans of the coast of Coromandel, collected by 
Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.S.I. 
Mr. A. Boucard read notes on some Coleoptera of the genus Plusiotis, 
and gave descriptions of three new species from Mexico and Central 
America. 
A communication was read from Mr. Arthur G. Butler, containing an 
account of a small collection of Lepidoptera, obtained by the Rev. J. S. 
Whitmee, at the Ellice Islands. 
A communication was read from Mr. Edward J. Miers, on the Pengide 
in the collection of the British Museum. 
Mr. George French Angas read a description of a new genus of land 
shells belonging to the family Cyclophoride, for which he proposed the 
name of Mascaria. 
Mr. Angas also read descriptions of nine new species of land and marine 
shells from various localities, amongst which was a new Rostellaria, proposed 
to be named R. luteostuma, and a new Bulimus from Madagascar, proposed 
to be called B. Watersi. 
A communication was read from Dr. G. E. Dobson, containing additional 
notes on the Chiroptera of Duke of York Island and the adjacent parts of 
New Ireland and New Britain. 
