PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 188 
ZooxtoeicaL Society or Lonpon. 
April 2, 1878.—Prof. Newton, 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 March, 1878, and called special 
attention to an Isabelline Bear (Ursus isabellinus, Horsf.), received in 
exchange from the Zoological Gardens, Calcutta; to a Le Vaillant’s Darter 
(Plotus Levaillanti), new to the collection; and to two examples of the 
very singular Water Tortoise, of the Amazons, generally known as the 
Matamata (Chelys matamata), remarkable for the long pendent filaments on 
its neck. 
A communication was read from the Marquis of Tweeddale, containing 
the seventh of his contributions to the ornithology of the Philippines. 
The present paper gave an account of the collection made by Mr. A. H. 
Everett in the Island of Panaon. 
Mr. A. G. Butler read descriptions of new Lepidoptera of the group 
Bombycites in the collection of the British Museum. 
A communication was read from M. E. Oustelet, containing the descrip- 
tion of a new species of Cassowary, from New Guinea, proposed. to be 
called Casuarius Edwardsi. 
A communication was read from Mr. F. Nicholson, containing the 
description of an apparently new species of American Pipit from Peru, 
which he proposed to call Anthus peruvianus. 
Professor A. H. Garrod read some notes on the placentation of 
Hyomoschiis aquaticus as observed in the pregnant uterus of a fresh 
specimen of this animal recently examined. 
April 16, 1878.—E. W. H. Hotpsworra, Esq., F.Z.S., in the chair. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on a typical specimen of the 
new Fox lately described by Mr. Blanford as Vulpes canus, from 
Baluchistan. 
The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. A. Anderson, a bamboo stick 
with leather thong attached to it, such as is used in Jndia for driving 
plough-cattle with, which had been taken out of a nest of the common 
Fish Eagle (Haliaétus leucoryphus), in December, 1876. 
Prof. Westwood communicated a memoir on the Uraniide, a family of 
Lepidopterous insects, with a synopsis of the family, and a monograph of 
one of the genera, Coronidia. These insects were remarkable for their 
extreme beauty and the difficulty which had attended their systematic 
classification. Their relations with other groups of Lepidopterous insects 
were discussed at considerable length, and their nearest affinities were 
shown to be with certain other moths belonging to the great division of the 
Bombyces, whilst their connection with the Hesperian butterflies, the 
Pseudo-sphinges, Erebideous Noctue, and Ourapterygeous Geometre was 
