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attention to a young female Babirussa, Babirussa alfurus, born January 

 16th, of one of the females presented by Dr. F. H. Bauer, in July, 1883 ; 

 and to a younpj example of a small species of Cormorant, apparently the 

 Pygmy Cormorant, Phalacrocorax iingnKEUs, purchased January 31st, and 

 said to have been received from Sierra Leone. 



Mr. Sclater laid on the table and made some remarks on a copy of the 

 lately issued "Guide to the Calcutta Zoological Gardens." 



Mr. W. T. Blanford made some observations on the collection of 

 drawings of Himalayan Birds lately presented to the Society's Library by 

 Mr. Brian H. Hodgson. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read the second part of his contribution to the 

 systematic arrangement of the Asteroidea, In the present communication 

 the author treated of the species of the genus Oreaster. 



A communication was read from M. Fernand Lataste, containing the 

 description of a new species of Gerbille from Arabia. This new species 

 was founded on specimens living in the Society's Gardens, which had been 

 hitherto referred to Gerbillus erythrurus, Gray. M. Lataste considered the 

 species to be undescribed, and proposed to call it Meriones longifrons. 



A communication was read from Mr. J. Wood-Mason, in wliich he gave 

 the description of a new species of the Neuropterous genus Corydalis. The 

 first example of this insect fa female) was captured by Lieut. -Col. H. H. 

 Godwin-Austen, on the Naga Hills, N.E. frontier of India; but male 

 specimens had since been obtained. The author proposed to call this 

 species Corydalis asiatica. 



A communication was read from Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, on the Mollusca 

 procured during the 'Lightning' and 'Porcupine' Expeditions 1868-70, 

 forming the seventh part of his series of papei's on this subject. The 

 prpsent part comprised the genera from Eissoa to Acirsa, with seventy-four 

 species, of which fourteen were new to science, as was also one new genus. 



March 4, 1884. — E. W. H. Holdsworth, Esq., F.Z.S., in the chair. 



Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited and made remarks on specimens of 

 two Gulls, Xema Sabini and Lams Philadelphia, in the breeding-plumage, 

 both killed in Scotland. Mr. Saunders also made some observations upon 

 the specimen of Larus atricilla in the British Museum, said to be the one 

 killed by Montagu at Winchelsea ; and came to the conclusion that the bird 

 in question was not Montagu's specimen. Mr. Saunders likewise exhibited 

 a specimen of Puffinus griseus, killed off the Yorkshire coast. 



A letter was read from Dr. Ch. W. Liitken, calling attention to a 

 specimen of an Echidna in the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen, which 

 seemed to be different from the ordinary Tachyglossus aculeatus, and which 

 Dr. Liitken was of opinion might possibly be referable to the lately described 

 T. Lawesi of New Guinea, 



