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and Sittella, were really mesomyodian forms, most nearly allied perhaps to 

 Pitta. The discovery of such low forms of Passerine birds in New Zealand 

 was a fact of considerable interest, none of the allied groups being at all 

 represented there at the present day. 



A commuuication was read from Mr. Sylvanus Hauley on the shells 

 of the genus Leptomya, to which was added the descriptions of two new 

 species. 



Mr. Sclater read a note on Riippell's Parrot, and showed that the more 

 brightly-coloured individuals, ordinarily supposed to be the males of this 

 Parrot, were really the females. 



A second paper from Mr. Sclater gave the description of two new species 

 of the genus Synalla.ris from the collection of Messrs. Salvin and Godman. 



A commuuication was read from Prof. M. Watsou, containing an account 

 of the muscular anatomy of Proteles, as compared with that of Hyana and 

 Yiverra. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a paper containing the description of a new 

 species of Rat from China. The specimens upon which the author had 

 founded the description bad been sent by the Abbe Arrnand David to 

 M. Milne-Edwards, of Paris, who bad placed them in the hands of Mr. 

 Thomas for identification. The author proposed to call this Rat Mus 

 Edwardei. 



A communication was read from Mr. E. W. White, of Buenos Ayres, 

 in which he gave an account of the birds collected by him in the Argentine 

 Republic. 



Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe read the descriptions of two apparently new 

 species of Eryihropygia, one from the Zambesi, the other from the 

 Congo River, which he proposed to call respectively E. zambesiana aud 

 E. ruficauda. 



A second paper by Mr. Sharpe contained the description of a new 

 Flycatcher, which had been obtained by the late Governor Ussher on the 

 Gold Coast. The author proposed to call it Muscicapa Ussheri, in acknow- 

 ledgment of the services which its discoverer bad rendered to ornithological 

 science. 



A communication was read from Mr. F. Moore on the Lepidoptera 

 collected by the Rev. J. H. Hocking, chiefly in the Kaugra District, N.W. 

 Himalaya. The present communication, being the second on the same 

 collection, contained the descriptions of seven new genera and forty-eight 

 new species. An account of the transformation of a number of the species 

 was also given. 



This meeting closes the present session. There will be no more 

 scientific meetings until the commencement of the session 1882-83, in 

 November next. — P. L. Sclatkk, Secretary. 



