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Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read the descriptions of four new species of 

 Ophiuroids from various localities. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard read a piper containing remarks on certain points 

 in the visceral anatomy of Balamiceps rex hearing upon its affinities, which 

 he considered to he with the Arde'uUe rather than with the Ciconiidm. 



Mr. G. B. Sowerhy gave the description of a gigantic new species of 

 Mollusk of the genus AspergiUum from Japan, which he proposed to name 

 A. giganteum. 



June 5, 1888.— Dr. Edward Hamilton, Vice-President, in the chair. 

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

 the Society's Menagerie during the month of May. 



Mr- H. E. Dresser exhibited a specimen of a new Shrike from the 

 Transcaspian district of Central Asia, which he proposed to call Lanius 

 raddei, after Dr. Radde, of Tiflis, its discoverer, 



Mr. Sclater, on the part of Mr. F. M. Campbell, exhibited a pair of 

 Tallas's Sand Grouse, Syrrhaptes paradoxus, shot in Hertfordshire, in 

 May last, and made remarks on the recent immigration of this Central 

 Asiatic bird into Western Europe. 



The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Prof. R. Collett, a nest, eggs, and 

 two young ones in down of the Ivory Gull, Larus eburneus, belonging 

 to the Tromso Museum, which had been obtained in Spitzbergen in 

 August, 1887. 



Mr. Warren communicated a paper on Lepidoptera collected by Major 

 Yerbury in Western India in 1886-87, forming a continuation and com- 

 pletion of two previous papers, by Mr. A. G. Butler, on Lepidoptera 

 collected by the same gentleman in similar localities. The present 

 collection contained examples of over 200 species of Heterocera, of which 

 about one-fourth were described as new. Mr. Warren remarked upon the 

 abnormal development of separate organs, such as the antennae and palpi, 

 in tropical insects, as being rather specific aberrations from a geueric type, 

 than as warranting the erection of new genera. 



A communication was read from Mr. Martin Jacoby, containing descrip- 

 tions of some new species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from Kiukiang, China. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard read some notes on the structure of a peculiar 

 sterual gland found in Didelphys dimidiata. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger read a paper on the scaling of the reproduced tail 

 in Lizards, and pointed out that the scaling of the renewed tails of Lizards 

 may, in some cases, afford a clue to the affinities of genera or species to 

 one another. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard gave a preliminary notice of an apparently new form 

 of Gregarine found parasitic on an earthworm of the genus Pericliata, from 

 New Zealand. — T. L. Sclatee, Secretary. 



