356 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Mr. E. Meyrick read a paper entitled On some Lepidoptera from New 
Guinea,” and exhibited the species therein described. He stated that 
the specimens were derived from two sources, viz. (1), a portion of the 
collection received by the Society from Baron Ferdinand von Miller, 
F.R.S., and collected by Mr. Sayer when accompanying the Australian 
Geographical Society’s Exploring Expedition; and (2), a number of speci- 
mens collected by Mr. Kowald near Port Moresby, and obtained from him 
by Lord Walsingham. 
Mr. Blandford read a letter from Mr. Wroughton, of Poona, Deputy 
Conservator of Forests, asking for assistance in working out certain Indian 
Hymenoptera and Diptera in the collections of the Bombay Natural History 
Society. Lord Walsingham, Colonel Swinhoe, and Mr. Moore made some 
remarks on the subject.—H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 

NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 
Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of 
the British Museum (Natural History). By O.prre.p 
THomas. 8vo, pp. 400, Plates I.—XXVIII. Printed by 
order of the Trustees. 
Catalogue of the Chelonians, Rhynchocephalians, and Crocodiles 
in the British Museum (Natural History). New Edition. 
By G. A. Bouneneer. 8vo, pp. 311, Plates I.—VII. 
Printed by order of the Trustees. 
Ir is highly satisfactory to mark the steady progress which 
is being made in the preparation of the Catalogues of the 
Zoological Collections in the British Museum, and the important 
additions which are being constantly made in almost every branch 
of Zoology. 
Since the year 1843, when the late Dr. Gray brought out his 
‘ List of Mammalia in the Collection of the British Museum,’ no 
general account of the Marsupials in that collection has been 
published, whilst nearly all the other Orders of the Class have 
been made the subjects of continuous study and revision. This 
seeming neglect, as explained by Dr. Gunther in the Preface to 
the above first-mentioned. Catalogue, was chiefly due to the 
appearance in 1846 of two works, viz., Waterhouse’s standard 
work on these Mammals, which in the course of the following 
