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Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe read a paper containing an account of a collection 
of birds from Perak, which contained examples of several forms hitherto 
only known from Sumatra. 
A second paper by Mr. Sharpe continued the series of his notes on the 
specimens in the Hume Collection of Birds in the British Muscum. The 
present communication treated of some of the Rose Finches, of Lalage 
melanothorax, and of some Flycatchers of the genus Siphia. 
Mr. Arthur G. Butler read a paper on a series of Lepidoptera collected 
by Major Yerbury at Campbellpore, Western India. The collection con- 
tained examples of 177 species, many of them represented by a fair series 
of specimens. Six of the Butterflies and nineteen of the Moths were 
described as new. 
Mr. Sclater read a list of a collection of birds obtained by Mr. H. Berkeley 
James from the province of Tarapaca, Northern Chili. The collection 
contained 147 skins, referable to 52 species, amongst which was a new 
three-toed Flamingo of special interest, which was proposed to be called 
Phenicopterus Jamesi. 
Mr. A. Smith Woodward read a note on the presence of a columella 
(epipterygoid) in the skull of Ichthyosaurus. 
Mr. Herbert Druce read a paper containing the description of some new 
species of Heterocera from Tropical Africa. 
Mr. Boulenger read a report on the additions made to the Batrachian 
Collection in the Natural History Museum since the publication of his 
catalogue. To the report were added descriptions of some new species, the 
most interesting of which was anew Newt, Geomolge Fischeri, from the 
_ Ussuri River, Mantchuria. 
This meeting closes the present session. The next session (1886-87) 
will commence in November next.—P. L. Scnarer. 
ENtomMoLocicaL Soctety or Lonpon. 
July 7, 1886.—J. Jenner WEIR, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the 
chair. 
Mr. S. H. Scudder, of Cambridge, Mass., United States, was elected a 
Foreign Member of the Society. 
The Rev. H. 8S. Gorham exhibited specimens of Eucnemis capucina 
(Ahr.), a species new to Britain, discovered in June last in an old beech tree 
in the New Forest. He also exhibited specimens of Cassidu chloris. 
Dr. Sharp exhibited larvee of Meloé, and read notes on their habits ; 
and Mr. Saunders exhibited a specimen of Halictus infested with about 
thirty Meloé larve. 
Mr. Billups remarked that he had recently found forty-seven larve of 
Meloé on the body of a specimen of Eucera longicornis. 
