70 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Zoological Society of London. 



December 20, 1887.— Professor W. H. Flower, O.B., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of November, 1887. 



Mr. Sclater read a letter from Dr. H. Burmeister, containing a descrip- 

 tion of a supposed new Humming-bird from Tucuman. Mr. Sclater 

 proposed to call this species, of which the type was in the National Museum 

 of Buenos Ayres, Chmtocercus burmeisteri. 



The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Major Yerbury, a pair of horns of 

 the Oorial, Ovis cycloceros, which formerly belonged to the Royal Artillery 

 Mess at Fort Attock, and were stated to have been originally obtained in 

 the Chitta Pahar Range, a few miles south of Attock. These horns were 

 apparently of the form lately described by Mr. A. 0. Hume as Ovis blanfordi. 



An extract was read from a letter received from Mr. H. M. Phipson, of 

 the Bombay Natural-History Society, offering some living Snakes for the 

 Society's collection. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper on Hooker's Sea-lion, Otaria (Arcto- 

 cephalus) hookeri, based upon the specimens of this species recently received 

 by the Society, one of which had lately died. The author called attention 

 to the external features, visceral anatomy, aud osteology of this Sea-lion, in 

 comparison with the corresponding characters of other species of the group. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger read the description of a new genus of Lizards of 

 the family Teiida, founded on a specimen presented to the British Museum 

 by Mr. H. N. Ridley, who had obtained it in the Forest of Iguarasse, 

 Pernambuco. The author proposed to name this lizard Stenole]ris ridleyi. 



A communication from the Rev. H. S. Gorham, entitled a " Revision of 

 the Japanese species of Endomychidee," was read. In this paper three new 

 genera and thirteen new species were characterised and described. Addi- 

 tional observations were made upon the species previously known to inhabit 

 Japan. The new species were based on specimens obtained by Mr. George 

 Lewis during his last journey to the islands in 1880-81. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger gave an account of the fishes obtained by Surgeon- 

 Major A. S. G. Jayakar at Muscat, East Coast of Arabia, which had been 

 presented by him to the British Museum. The collection contained speci- 

 mens of 172 species, many of which were unrepresented in the National 

 Collection, and 15 of which were apparently new to Science. 



Mr. H. Druce read a paper containing descriptions of some new species 

 of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Tropical Africa. 



