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the world, 1878 — 81. The collection was stated to be now deposited in the 

 Royal Zoological Museum at Florence. 



A communication was read from Mr. L. Taczanowski, containing a list 

 of the birds collected in the Corea by M. J. Kalinowski between September, 

 1885, and March, 1887. A Woodpecker in the collection was considered 

 to be new to science, and named Thriponax kalhwivskii. 



Prof. W. H. Flower read a paper on the Pigmy Hippopotamus of 

 Liberia, Hippopotamus liberiensis, and its claims to distinct generic rank. 

 The specimen of this animal in the National Collection possesses two incisor 

 teeth on one side of the lower jaw. This and other considerations induced 

 the author to question the advisability of separating it generically from 

 Hippopotamus. 



Mr. Francis Day communicated a paper by Mr. J. Douglas-Ogilby, of 

 the Australian Museum, Sydney, on a new genus and species of Australian 

 Mugilldce, which he proposed to designate Trachystoma multidens. 



Mr. Day also read a second paper by Mr. Ogilby, giving the description 

 of a new genus of Percida based on examples taken in the Gulf of 

 St. Vincent, South Australia, which the author proposed to describe as 

 Chthamalopteryx melbournensis. 



A communication w r as read from Dr. M. Menzbier, of Moscow, describing 

 a third species of Caucasian Wild Goat. This he proposed to call Capra 

 severtzovi, being the C. caucasica of Dinnik, but not of Guldenstadt. 



Mr. Blanford read some critical notes on the nomenclature of Indian 

 Mammals, in which he treated of Macacus ferox, Shaw (M. silenus, auct. 

 nee Linn.), M. irus, Cuv. (M. cynomotgus, auct., nee Linn.), M. rhesus, 

 Presbytes thersites, Blyth, Semnopithecus chrysogaster, Felis bengalensis, 

 F.jerdoni, Herpestes mungo (H. griseus, auct., nee Geoffr.), Vulpes vulgaris, 

 V. alopex, and the genera Putorius, Mustela, Xantharpyra, Gynonycteris, 

 Hipposiderus, and Phyllorhina. — P. L. Sclatek, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



December 7, 1887. — Dr. David Sharp, F.Z.S., President, [in the chair. 



Mr. C. E. Stanley-Phillips, of Shooter's Hill ; Mr. H. W. Barker, of 

 Peckham ; and Herr E. G. Honrath, of Berlin, were elected Fellows. 



Mr. Jenner Weir exhibited, and made remarks on, twelve specimens 

 of Cicadetta hcematoides, collected last summer in the New Forest by 

 Mr. Charles Gulliver. Only one of the specimens was a male, from which 

 it was inferred that the males were more active than the females, and quickly 

 retreated when disturbed. 



Mr. M'Lachlan exhibited a specimen of Pterostichus madidus, F., which 

 he had recently found in a potato. It seemed questionable whether the 

 beetle had been bred in the cavity or had entered it for predaceous purposes. 



