90 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a paper containing descriptions of two new 

 species of Fruit-Bats of the genus Pteropas, from the Caroline Islands. The 

 author proposed to call them Pteropus phceocephahis and P. breviceps. 



A communication was read from Major G. F. L. Marshall, containing 

 some notes on Asiatic Butterflies. A species of Amecera was mentioued as 

 new to the Beluchistan fauna, and three species were described as new. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger read the description of a new species of Lizard 

 from Dacotah, based upon some specimens lately presented to the Society's 

 collection by Mr. S. Garman, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Cambridge, Mass., and proposed to name it Sceloporus Garmani. 



Mr. Arthur G. Butler read a paper in which he gave an account of a 

 collection of Spiders made by the Rev. Deans Cowan in Madagascar. In 

 addition to many interesting and singular forms were specimens of the 

 curious-tailed species Arachnoura scorpionoides from Central Madagascar. 

 Six new species were described. 



Mr. W. N. Parker read a paper on the anatomy of the Indian Tapir. 



Mr. Herbert Druce read a paper descriptive of new species of Moths, 

 chiefly from Western Africa and New Guinea. Fifteen new species were 

 described, as also was a new genus of Chalco&iula from New Guinea. 



January 16, 1883.— Prof. W. H. Flower, 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 December. 



Mr. H. E. Dresser exhibited, and made remarks on, a specimen of 

 Merops philippensis, which was said to have been obtained near the Snook, 

 Seaton Carew, in August, 1862. 



Lieut.-Colonel Godwin-Austen read the third and last of a series of 

 papers on the shells collected in Socotra by Prof. J. Bayly Balfour. The 

 freshwater shells of Socotra were stated to belong to the genera Planorbis, 

 Hydrobia, and Melania. Not a single bivalve was obtained. Four species 

 were described as new. 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester read a paper on the right cardiac valves of 

 Echidna and of Ornithorhynchus. Seven additional specimens of the latter 

 animal had been examined since the author's former paper on this subject 

 had been read, all of which, whilst showing interesting variations, agreed in 

 the absence of the septal flap of the right cardiac valve. This character 

 was shown to exist also in Echidna, and was therefore presumed to be a 

 distinctive feature in the structure of the Monotremes. 



A communication was read from Mr. F. Moore, containing the descrip- 

 tions of some new genera and species of Asiatic Lepidoptera Heterocera. 



A communication was read from Mr. G. B. Sowerby, jun., in which he 

 gave the descriptions of five new species of Shells from various localities. — 

 P. L. Sclatkh, Secretary. 



