216 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. J. B. Martin, a large tusk of 
the Indian Elephant, Hlephas indicus, about six feet long and weighing 
100 tbs., stated to have belonged to a “rogue Elephant,” with only one 
tusk, which had been killed at Goruckpore in 1836. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited the heads and horns of two species of Antelopes 
obtained in the vicinity of Lamoo, Kastern Africa, belonging respectively to 
Strepsiceros imberbis and Damalis senegalensis. 
Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper on some points in the anatomy of 
Chauna chavaria. 
Prof. Flower communicated a paper by Miss Agnes Crane on a 
Brachiopod of the genus Atretia, from Port Stephen, Australia, described 
in MS. by the late Dr. T. Davidson, and proposed to be called Atretia 
braziert. 
Mr. J. G. Goodchild, H.M. Geol. Survey, read a paper on the dis- 
position of the cubital coverts in birds. This communication described 
the principal modes of imbrication of the cubital coverts, as observed in 
healthy living birds of all the leading carinate forms, and pointed out that 
there is a certain correlation between particular styles of imbrication and 
various other characteristics connected with the pterylosis, the myology, 
the visceral anatomy and osteology of the birds in question. The paper 
concluded with some observations upon the origin of the features described. 
A communication was read from Dr. Giinther, containing some further 
information on the melanotic variety of the South-African Leopard which 
he had previously described.—P. L. Sctater, Secretary. 
EnromoLocicaL Socrrty oF Lonpon. 
April 7, 1886.—Rosert M‘Lacutan, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 
The following were elected Fellows of the Society, viz.:— Messrs. 
E. Capron, M.D., J. W. Ellis, L.R.C.P., F. D. Wheeler, M.A., J. B. 
Bridgman, F.L.S., T. D. Gibson-Carmichael, F.L.S., J. Rhodes, F.R.M.S., 
A. C. Horner, J. T. Harris, Evan John, Martin Jacoby, J. A. Clark, 
G. Elisha, and A. Sidney Olliff. 
Mr. Crowley exhibited a number of Lepidoptera, including a long 
series of species belonging to the genus Rhomaléosoma, containing many 
unusual forms, lately received from Accra, West Africa; also, from the 
same locality, about sixteen species of the genus Charawes in remarkably 
fine condition, and represented by specimens of both sexes. He also 
exhibited a number of large specimens of Saturnia from Natal, and several 
unknown species of other genera. 
The Rey. W. W. Fowler exhibited four beetles belonging to the family 
Carabidae. ‘Three of them had been taken twenty years ago on the banks 
