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gaurus (the Gaur), and not Bos frontalis (the Gayal), is the Wild Ox of 

 Assam, and that B. frontalis is not known in a wild state, but only as a 

 semi-domesticated animal owned by various wild tribes from Assam to 

 Arracan. 



Mr. Sclater called the attention of the meeting to the skin of a Brown 

 Crow from Australia, which had been sent to him for examination by 

 Mr. Albert A. C. Le Souef, and which he was inclined to regard as a variety 

 in plumage of Oorvua australis. 



Mr. A. G. Butler read a paper containing an account of a collection of 

 Indian Lepidoptera made by Lieut-Colonel Charles Swiuhoe, chiefly at 

 Kurrachee, Solun and Mhow. Thirty-two new species were described, and 

 numerous field-notes by Col. Swinhoe were incorporated in the paper. 



Col. J. A. Grant read some notes on the Zebra met with by the Speke 

 and Grant Expedition in the interior of Central Africa in 1860-63, which 

 certainly belonged either to the true Zebra, Equus zebra, or to its closely- 

 allied northern form, the recently-described Equus Grevyi. 



April 17, 1883.— Prof. W. EL Floweu, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



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

 tin' Society's Menagerie during the month of March, and called special 

 attention to the three Sirens, Siren lacertina, from South Carolina, presented 

 by Dr. G. E. Manigault ; and to an American Teetee Monkey of the genus 

 Callilhrix, which it was difficult to determine satisfactorily in its living 

 state, but which was certainly new to the Society's Collection. 



Prof. Flower gave an exposition of the systematic classification of the 

 Mammalia, which he had recently prepared for use in arranging the speci- 

 mens in the Museum of the College of Surgeons, and in a treatise on the 

 subject of Mammals in the ' Encyclopa3dia Britannica.' 



A communication was read from Mr. \Y. L. Distant, containing the first 

 of a series of contributions to an intended monograph of the Homopterous 

 family Cicadidce. In the present paper the author gave the results of an 

 examination of the Cicadidic contained in the Dresden Museum (including 

 the specimens collected in Celebes by Dr. A. B. Meyer), and added the 

 descriptions of other species belonging to the collections of Dr. Signoret and 

 the author. Eleven species were described as new from various localities. 



Mr. Sclater read a second paper on the birds collected in the Timor Laut 

 or Tenimber group of islands by Mr. H. 0. Forbes, based on additional 

 specimens lately received. The avifauna of the group, as indicated by 

 Mr. Forbes's collection, contained fifty-nine species, of which twenty-two 

 were peculiar to these islands. 



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

 part of a monograph of the Butterflies belonging to the groups Limnaina 

 and Euplteina. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



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