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the Solomon Islands, principally based upon two collections forwarded to 

 the British Museum from that locality by Mr, H. B. Guppy, R.N. 



Lieut. -Col. Godwin-Austen exhibited an old Indian drawing representing 

 a Tiger-hunt; and called attention to the colour of one of the Elephants 

 engaged, which was of a creamy white. 



Prof. Flower described the state of dentition of a young Capybara, 

 Hydrochcerus capyhara, born in the Society's Gardens, which had died 

 when eight days old. All the teeth of the permanent series were present 

 and in use. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read a paper on Amphicyclus, a new genus of 

 Dendroclinotous Holothurians, and on its bearing on the classification of 

 the suborder. 



A communication was read from Mr. Edgar A. Smith, containing a 

 report on the Land and Freshwater Mollusca which had been collected 

 during the voyage of H.M.S. ' Challenger' from December, 1872, to May 

 1876. The collection contained examples of 152 species, some of which 

 were of interest and several new to science. 



A communication was read from Count Berlepsch and M. Taczanowski, 

 containing an account of a second collection of birds made in Western 

 Ecuador by Messrs. Stolzmann and Siemiradzki. There were stated to be 

 examples of 177 species in this collection, which had been made at various 

 localities on the western slope of the Cordilleras above Guayaquil. The 

 following species were described as new : — Henicorhina hilaris, Chloro- 

 spingus ochraceus, and Sj)ermopJnla pauper. A new genus, Pacilotriccus, 

 was proposed for Todirostrum mjiceps of Kaup. 



A paper by ]\ressrs. Godman and Salviu was read, which contained a list 

 of the Rhopalocera obtained by Mr. G. French Angas during a recent visit 

 to the island of Dominica. The number of species in this collection was 

 twenty-seven, among them being a species of Nywphalince apparently new ; 

 this the authors proposed to describe as Cymatogramma doniinicana. 



Mr. Herbert Druce read a paper describing the Heterocera collected by 

 Mr. Angas on the same island. 



May 20, 1884.— Sir Joseph Fayree, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. 



]\lr. W. T. Blanford exhibited and made remarks on a series of horns 

 of the Wild Sheep of the Pamir, Ovis polii, Blyth, which had been obtained 

 by the Hon. Charles A. Ellis from the Pamir district during his recent 

 journey to Yarkand. 



Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe exhibited and made remarks on a second 

 specimen of the new European Nuthatch, Sitta WUteheadi, recently 

 discovered by Mr. Whitehead in Corsica. 



Dr. J. G. Garson exhibited and made lemarks upon a specimen of 

 the Northern Stone Crab, Lithodes maia. 



