SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 71 



January 18, 1888. — Dr. A. Guntheb, F.R.S., Vice-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 December, 1887, and called 

 attention to a small Fox from Afghanistan, presented by Lieut.-Col. 

 Sir 0. B. C. St. John, which should probably be referred to the species 

 shortly noticed by Blyth as Vulpes griffithi. It was, however, somewhat 

 doubtful whether the species was really distinct from Vulpes leucopus, 

 Blyth, the small Desert Fox of Western India. 



Mr. Francis Day exhibited and made remarks on some hybrid fishes 

 from Howietown, and on a British specimen of the Spined Loche. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a report on a collection of Mammals obtained 

 by Emin Pasha in Central Africa, and presented by him to the Natural- 

 History Museum. The collection contained 115 specimens belonging to 

 thirty-nine species. The great mass of the collection had been obtained in 

 a district called Moubuttu, just within the Congo Basin. A new Flying 

 Sqnirrel, of small size, was named Anomalurus pusillus, and a new Tree- 

 Hyrax, Dendrohyrax emini, after its discoverer. 



Capt. G. E. Shelley read a paper on a collection of birds made by Emin 

 Pasha in Equatorial Africa. The series had been formed partly in the 

 Upper Nile district and partly in the Monbuttu country in the Congo Basin, 

 and contained examples of four species new to Science, proposed to be called 

 Indicator emini, Spermospiza ruficapilla, JPloceus castanops, and Glareola 

 emini. 



Dr. A. Giiuther read a report on a collection of Reptiles and Batrachians 

 from Monbuttu, sent by Emin Pasha. The author enumerated seventeen 

 specimens, of which nine were almost generally distributed over the Africau 

 region ; of the remainder, seven were known from various parts of West 

 Africa. One Tree-snake was described as new, and called, alter its discoverer, 

 Ahatulla emini. 



Mr. Edgar A. Smith read an account of the Shells collected by Dr. Emin 

 Pasha on the Albert Nyanza, Central Africa. Of the five species of which 

 examples were obtained, three were referred to new species. It was stated 

 that fifteen species of Shells were now known from Lake Albert, of which 

 seven were peculiar to it. 



Mr. Arthur G. Butler gave an account of the Lepidoptera received from 

 Dr. Emin Pasha. The collection contained examples of 155 species, of 

 which thirteen butterflies and two moths were new to Science. 



A communication was read from Mr. Charles 0. Waterhouse, containing 

 an account of the Coleoptera from Eastern Equatorial Africa received from 

 Emin Pasha. One of the species was new to Science, and six of them had 

 previously been received at the British Museum from West Africa only. — 

 P. L. Sclatek, Secretary. 



