118 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
apollo, and by Mr. Thomson's notes on the habits of the insects as bred in 
the Society’s Gardens in 1885. 
Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a paper containing a list of the specimens of 
Mammals collected in various parts of India, and presented to the British 
Museum by Mr. A. O. Hume. The series consisted of 400 specimens, 
nearly all in excellent condition, and with accurate localities attached to 
them. A new Mouse from Tenasserim was proposed to be called Mus 
Humii. A new Flying Squirrel from the Malay Peninsula was named 
Sciuropterus Davisoni. 
A communication was read from the Rev. Canon Tristram, containing 
the description of an apparently new species of Duck (Dajila) from Sydney 
Island of the Phcenix group in the Central Pacific, which he proposed to 
name, from its extreme simplicity of plumage, Dajila modesta. 
A communication was read from Mr. A. G. Butler, containing a 
description of the larva, pupa, aud imago of a Butterfly, Aporia hippia, 
from specimens bred in the Society’s Gardens. 
February 2, 1886.—Prof. W. H. Ftower, LL.D., V.-P.B.S., President, 
in the chair. 
Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited and made remarks on a Pheasant from 
the Persian borders of Transcaucasia. 
Mr. C. A. Wright exhibited a Dove of the genus Turtur from Malta, 
and identified it as a semi-albino variety of Turtus auritus. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited, on behalf of Mr. W. H. Dobie, a young specimen 
of Sabine’s Gull, Xema Sabinii, which had been obtained at Mostyn, on 
the coast of Flintshire. 
Mr. Seebohm exhibited a specimen of Ross’s Gull, Larus Rossi, obtained 
in June last in the neighbourhood of Christianhaab, Disco Bay, Greenland. 
Capt. R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay exhibited and remarked on a specimen 
of a new bird of the genus Copsychus obtained by Mr. H. Pryer in North- 
Eastern Borneo, which he proposed to eall C. niger. 
A communication was read from Prof. R. Collett, containing an account 
of the external characters of the Northern Fin-Whale, Balenoptera borealis, 
based upon the examination of numerous specimens of this whale killed on 
the coast of Norway during the past summer. 
A communication was read from Dr. G. Stewardson Brady, containing 
descriptions of some new fresh-water Hntomostracous Crustacea from 
South Australia. 
Dr. H. Woodward communicated, on behalf of Dr. Monticelli, a catalogue 
of the species of Bats found in South Italy. 
Mr. R. B. Sharpe read the first of a series of notes on birds in the Hume 
Collection. The present‘communication treated of the specimens supposed 
to belong to the Hawfinch of Europe, which had been collected at Attock, 
