PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 199 



Zoological Society of London. 



April 4, 1882.— Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on an example of a rare 

 Flycatcher, Cyanomyias cmlestis, from the Philippines, which had been sent 

 to England for determination by Dr. Moesch, of Zurich. 



Mr. Sclater also exhibited and made remarks on two specimens of the 

 Subcylindrical Horn bill, Buceros subcylindricus, which had been formerly 

 living in the Society's Gardens. 



Dr. A. Giinther read the description of a new species of fresh-water 

 Turtle from Siam, a specimen of which had been recently acquired by the 

 British Museum. The author proposed to name it Geoemyda impressa, 

 from the peculiar shape of the principal upper plates, which are not merely 

 flattened, but distinctly concave. 



Mr. W. A. Forbes read a paper on the structure of the convoluted 

 trachea of two species of Manucode, Manucodia atra and Phony gama 

 Gouldi, and added remarks on similar conformations in the tracheae of 

 other birds. 



Mr. J. E. Harting read a paper on the eggs of three species of wading 

 birds which had been obtained by the Rev. W. Deans Cowan in the 

 neighbourhood of Fianarantsoa, in the Betsileo country, Madagascar. The 

 species to which these eggs belonged were Olareola ocularis, Mgialitis 

 Geoffroyi, and Gallinago macrodactyla. Much interest attached to these 

 eggs as uot having been previously described. 



A communication was read from Mr. E. P. Ramsay, containing the 

 description of a supposed new species of Tephras, an example of which had 

 been obtained by the late Mr. S. White while collecting at the Aru Islands. 

 The author proposed to name it Tephras Whitei, after its discoverer. 



April 18, 1882.— 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 March, and called special 

 attention to a Radiated Fruit-Cuckoo, Carpococcyx radiatus, from Sumatra, 

 purchased March 31st, and quite new to the Society's Collection. 



Prof. Flower read a paper upon the mutual affinities of the animals 

 composing the order Edentata, in which the usual binary division into 

 Phyllophaga (or Tardigrada) and Eutomophaga (or Vermilingua) was shown 

 not to agree with the most important structural characters. These, 

 according to the interpretation put upon them by the author, indicate that 

 the Bradypodida: and Megatheiiidai are allied to the Myrmecophagidie, and 



