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Specimens and drawings of details were exhibited in illustration of the 
paper. 
Mr. P. L. Sclater read some further remarks on Fuligula Nationi, 
a species of duck from Western Peru, of which he had lately received 
a nearly adult male from Prof. Nation, the discoverer of the species. 
Mr. A. G. Butler read the descriptions of a small collection of Lepidoptera 
made at Kingston, Jamaica, by Mr. James J. Bowry. 
Mr. Edgar A. Smith read a paper containing the description of three 
new land shells from Jamaica and Borneo. : 
A communication was read from Mr. D. G. Elliot, containing a memoir 
on the Fruit Pigeons of the genus Ptilepus. Mr. Elliot recognised seventy- 
one species of this genus. 
May 21, 1878.—F’.. D. Gopmay, Esq., F.Z.S., in the chair. 
A communication was read from Lieut.-Col. R. H. Beddome, containing 
the description of a new genus and species of Snakes, of the family of 
Calamariida, from Southern India, proposed to be called Xylophis indicus. 
Mr. P. L. Sclater read the-tenth of a series of reports on the collection 
of birds made during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, containing an 
account of the birds of the Atlantic Islands and of Kerguelen’s Land; and 
of the miscellaneous collections made by the Expedition. 
Mr. J. Wood-Mason described several new or little known Mantide from 
India, Australia, and other localities. 
Mr. H. W. Bates read a paper containing the description of new genera 
and species of geodephagous Coleoptera from Central America, belonging to 
the families Cicindelide and Carabidae. 
Mr. G. French Angas read the description of a new species of T'udicula, 
which he proposed to name 7’. inermis. 
A communication was read from the Marquis of Tweeddale, being the 
ninth 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 Palawan, and contained the descriptions of nine new 
species, namely, Tiga Hveretti, Dicrurus palawanensis, Broderipus palawa- 
nensis, Trichostoma rujfifrons, Drymocataphus cinereiceps, Brachypus cineret- 
frons, Criniger palawanensis, Cyrtostomus aurora, and Corvus pusillus. The 
collection likewise contained three examples of the remarkable Polyplectron 
emphanes, of which the locality was previously unknown and specimens 
were excessively rare. 
Prof. A. H. Garrod read a paper, in which he gave a description of the 
tracheee of Tantalus loculator and of Vanellus cayennensis. 
A second paper, by Professor Garrod, contained some notes on the 
anatomy of the Great-headed Maleo (Megacephalon maleo).—P. L. SctaTER, 
Secretary. 
