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two species of Testudinata, Testudo elejihantopiis and Chelys matamata, 

 recently laid by animals living in the Society's Gardens. 



Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe exhibited and made remarks on a Red-throated 

 Pipit, Anthus cervinus, caught near Brighton in March last. Mr. Sharpe 

 exhibited at the same time an example of the Water Pipit, Anthus spinoletta, 

 captured at Lancing, in Sussex, in March, 1877. 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester exhibited and made remarks on a large living 

 Scorpion, Buphus ojaneus, from Ceylon. 



A communication was read from Prof. T. Jeffrey Parker, being the first 

 of a series of studies in New Zealand Ichthyology. The present paper 

 gave a desciiption of the skeleton of Regalecus argenteus. The species was 

 founded on a specimen cast ashore at Moeraki, Otago, in June, 1883. 



A communication was read from Viscount Powerscourt, containing 

 an account of the origin and progress of the herd of Japanese Deer at 

 Powerscourt. 



A communication was read from Mr. G. A. Boulenger, giving the 

 diagnoses of some new Reptiles and Batrachians from the Solomon Islands, 

 collected and presented to the British Museum by Mr. H. B. Guppy, of 

 H.M.S. 'Lark.' 



A communication was read from Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse, containing an 

 account of the Coleopterous Insects collected by Mr. H. 0. Forbes in the 

 Timor-Laut Islands. 



Mr. F. D. Godman read a paper containing an account of the Lepidoptera 

 collected by the late Mr. W. A. Forbes on the banks of the Lower Niger, 

 the Rhopalocera being described by Messrs. F. D. Godman and 0. Salvin, 

 and the Heterocera by Mr. H. Druce. The species of Butterflies were fifty 

 in number, and comprised representatives of all the families of Rhopalocera 

 hitherto known from Tropical Africa, except the Erycinida, a group but 

 feebly developed in this region. 



Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe read the description of three rare species of 

 Flycatchers, viz., Alseonax ininima, Lioptilus abyssinicm, and L. galinieri. 

 Mr. Sharpe also described an apparently new species of Nuthatch, dis- 

 covered by Mr. John Whitehead in the mountains of Corsica, and proposed 

 to be called Sitta Whiteheadi. 



Mr. G. E. Dobson read a paper on the myology and visceral anatomy 

 of Capromys melanurus, of which rare mammal specimens had been lately 

 obtained for him by Mr. F. W. Ramsden, H.M.'s Consul at St. Jago de 

 Cuba. The well-known division of the hepatic lopes into minute lobules 

 in C.pilorides from the same island was shown not to exist in C. melanurus, 

 which otherwise closely resembled the former species, and this character 

 could therefore no longer be considered a generic one. — P. L. Sclater, 

 Secretary. 



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