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Zoological Society of London. 



November 4, 1884.— Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



The Secretary made a report on the additions that had been made to 

 the Society's Menagerie during the months of June, July, August, and 

 September, 1884, and called attention to certain interesting accessions 

 which had been received during that period. Amongst these were specially 

 noted two Red-cheeked Colies, Colius erythromelon, purchased June 12th ; 

 two Chaplain Crows, Corvus capellanus, from Fao, Persian Gulf, presented 

 June 25th by Mr. B. Ffinch ; a second specimen of the Heloderm Lizard, 

 Heloderma susjjectum, received in exchange from the Central-Park 

 Menagerie, New York, U.S.A., July ord ; a collection of Snakes from 

 Japan and North America, brought home and presented to the Society by 

 Mr. Gerald Walker, July ^Snd, amongst which were representatives of five 

 species new to the Collection ; a young female Cape Sea-Lion, Otariapusilla, 

 from South Africa, presented to the Society by Capt. John Hewat, Super- 

 intendent of the Docks, Cape Town, July 25th ; and a Fringed Gecko, 

 Platydactylus homalocephalus, and six Black-spotted Toads, Biifo melano- 

 stictus, from Java, presented to the Society by Di. F. H. Bauer. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on the skin of a Woolly 

 Cheetah, Felis laiiea, obtained at Beaufort West, South Africa, sent to him 

 by the Rev. G. H. R. Fisk. 



The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Major W. Brydon, an egg of 

 Blyth's Tragopon ; and on behalf of Mr. J. C. Parr, a specimen of the chick 

 of the Vulturine Guinea-fowl, Numida vulturina, hatched in Lancashire. 



The Rev. H. H. Slater exhibited a specimen of the Barred Warbler, 

 Sylvia nisoria, obtained on the Yorkshire coast. 



Mr. H. E. Dresser exhibited specimens of the Barred Warbler, Sylvia 

 nisoria, and of the Jcterine Warbler, Hypolais icterina, killed in Norfolk. 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited a specimen of the File-fish (Balistes 

 caprisciis), which had been recently caught off Folkestone. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper on the anatomy of a gigantic Earth- 

 worm, Microchata rappii, and pointed out its systematic position. For this 

 very interesting specimen the author was indebted to the Rev. G. H. R. 

 Fisk, of Cape Town. 



Mr. A. G. Butler gave an account of a collection of Lepidoptera made 

 by Major J. W. Yerbury at or near Aden. The author looked upon this 

 collection as one of the greatest interest, since it not only contained a fine 

 series of the beautiful species of Teracolus recently described by Colonel 

 Swinhoe, but also many remarkable intergrades between certain long- 

 established species, tending to prove either that hybrids between allied 

 species are fertile, or that in Aden a condition of things still exists which in 

 Asia proper and in Africa has long passed away. 



