458 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
An extract was read from a letter addressed to the Marquis of Tweeddale 
by Mr. A. H. Everett, stating that the Anoa of Celebes, Anoa depressicornis, 
or an allied species, was found in the Island of Mindoro, Philippines. 
Professor Newton exhibited and made remarks on a supposed hybrid 
between the Red Grouse and Ptarmigan, lately shot in Sutherland by 
Captain Houston. 
A communication was read from Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, containing a 
description of a new species of Indicator, with remarks on other species of 
the genus. A second paper by Mr. Sharpe contained a note on Paoptera 
lugubris. 
A communication was read from Mr. G. B. Sowerby, Jun., wherein he 
gave the descriptions of ten new species of shells from various localities. 
Mr. A. G. Butler read a paper in which he gave the description of a 
remarkable new spider, obtained in Madagascar by the Rey. W. D. Cowan, 
for which the name of Cerostris avernalis was proposed. 
A communication was read from Lieut.-Colonel R. H. Beddome, con- 
taining the descriptions of six supposed new species of snakes of the genus 
Silybura, family Uropeltide, from the Peninsula of India. 
A communication was read from Mr. Edgar A. Smith, containing the 
description of a collection of marine shells, made by Capt. L. W. Wilmer, 
in the Andaman Islands. 
Mr. F’. Moore communicated a list of the lepidopterous insects collected 
by Mr. Ossian Limborg in Upper Tenasserim, with descriptions of new 
species. 
Mr. George French Angas gave the descriptions of six species of bivalve 
shells in the collection of Mr. Sylvanus Hanley, and a Helix from the 
Solomon Islands. Mr. Angas also read descriptions of ten species of 
marine shells from the Province of South Australia; and, in continuation 
of former papers on the same subject, read a list of additional species of 
Marine Mollusca to be included in the Fauna of the Province of South 
Australia, with notes on their habitats and local distribution. 
Dr. G. E. Dobson read a note on Mymaopoda aurita, a new form of 
Chiroptera from Madagascar, remarkable for possessing suctorial disks, as 
in Thryroptera. Dr. Dobson also gave descriptions of some new or rare 
species of bats, based on specimens in the Museum of Natural History of 
Paris. To the new species the following names were given :—Pteropus 
Germaini, from New Caledonia; Cephalotes minor, from New Guinea; 
Emballonura raffrayana, from Gibolo; and Schizostoma brachyota, from 
Cayenne.—P. L. Scrarer, Secretary. 
