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SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 489 
A letter was read from Mr. J. Cardwell, of Port Louis, Mauritius, 
announcing the discovery of a new deposit of Dodo-bones in a small cavern 
in the south-west part of the island. 
An extract was read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by Dr. F. 
H. Bauer, of Buitenzorg, Java, containing some notes on the Flying Lizard, 
Ptychozoon homalocephalum, of that island. 
Professor Bell exhibited and made remarks on a fine specimen of the 
Decapod Crustacean, Alpheus megacheles, obtained by Mr. Spencer at Herm, 
Channel Islands. 
Mr. Martin Jacoby communicated the second portion of his paper on 
the Phytophagous Coleoptera of Japan obtained by Mr. George Lewis 
during his second journey, 1880-81. This part treats of the Halticine 
and Galerucing of Mr. Lewis’s collection. 
Mr. A. G. Butler read a paper containing an account of two collections of 
Lepidoptera recently received from Somali-land. He considered that the 
lepidopterous fauna of Somali-land was essentially Arabian in character. 
Mr. L. R. Lydekker described a last upper molar of a Mastodon, which 
had been obtained by Mr. A. H. Everett, of Borneo, and referred it 
to a small race of M. latidens, previously known only from the Pliocene 
Siwaliks of India and Burma. ‘The specimen was of much interest, as 
increasing our knowledge of the eastern range of the Siwalik mammals. 
Mr. W. T. Blanford read a monograph of the genus Paradoxurus. 
After a critical examination of a large series of specimens, Mr. Blanford 
came to the conclusion that it would be necessary to reduce the numerous 
so-called species of this genus to about ten well-maiked forms. 
Mr. W. T. Blanford, on behalf of Mr. J. A. Murray, read a paper con- 
taining the description of a new species of Mus from Sind, proposed to be 
called Mus gleadowi. 
Mr. F. E. Beddard read an account of the specific characters and 
structure of some New Zealand Earthworms of the genus dAcanthodrilus. 
November 17, 1185.—Prof. W. H. Frowrr, LL.D., F.R.S., President, 
in the chair. 
The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of October, 1885, and called 
attention to a collection of North-American Reptiles, presented by Mr. F. J. 
Thompson, amongst which were examples of the Alleghany Snake, Coluber 
alleghaniensis, uew to the Society’s Collection; and to an example of the 
Black-eyebrowed Albatross, Diomedea melanophrys, obtained in False Bay, 
Cape Colony, and presented to the Society by Mr. W. Ayshford Sanford. 
The Secretary also exhibited to the meeting two curious Millipedes, 
believed to be Spirostreptus annulipes, which had been sent home from the 
Cape by Mr. Fisk for the Insect House. 
ZOOLOGIST.—DEC. 1885. 2P 
