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attention to two Blakiston's Owls, Bubo blakistoni, from Japan, presented 

 by Mr. J. H. Leech; three Hooker's Sea-Lions, Otaria hookeri, presented 

 by the Hon. W. J. M. Larnach.i C.M.G., Minister of Marine of New 

 Zealand ; and a Blue Penguin, Eudyptula minor, from Cook's Straits, 

 New Zealand, presented by Mr. Bernard Lawson. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read a report on a collection of Echinoderniata 

 made in the Andaman Islands by Col. Cadell, V.C. The collection was 

 stated to contain one hundred examples referable to fifty species. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger read a paper on a collection of Reptiles and 

 Batrachians made by ]\Ir. H. Pryer in the Loo Choo Islands. The author 

 observed that exceptional interest attached to this collection, seeing that it 

 was the first herpetological collection that had reached Europe from that 

 group of islands. Two new species were described, viz. Tachydromus 

 smaragdinus and Tropidonotus pryerl. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a paper on the small Mammals collected 

 in British Guiana by Mr. W. L. Sclater. The collection contained 

 thirteen specimens belonging to eight species, of which one was new ; 

 this the author proposed to describe as Hesperomys (Rhipidomys) 

 sclater i. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger pointed out the characters of a new Geckoid 

 Lizard from British Guiana. The specimen in question was contained in 

 a small collection of Reptiles made by Mr. W. L. Sclater on the Pomeroon 

 river. Tiie author described it as Oonatodes annularis. 



A communication was read from Mr. Charles 0. Waterhouse, con- 

 taining an account of a new parasitic Dipterous Insect of the family Hippo- 

 boscidcB. The author stated that this insect had been found on a species of 

 Swift, Cypselus melanoleucus, by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, at Fort Wingate, 

 New Mexico. It was closely allied to Anapera pallida, a European 

 Dipterous parasite found on C. apus, and was proposed to be named 

 Anapera fimbriata. 



Mr. John H. Ponsonby communicated, on behalf of Mr. Andrew 

 Garrett, the first part of a paper on the Terrestrial MoUusks of the Viti 

 or Fiji Islands. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper on the structure of a new genus of 

 Lumbricidfe, Thamnodrilus, discovered by Mr. W. L. Sclater in British 

 Guiana, which lie proposed to characterise as Thamnodrilus guUelmi. 



March 1, 1887.— Piof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



Prof. Jeffrey Bell read extracts from a communication sent to him by 

 Mr. Edgar Thurston, Superintendent of the Government Central Museum, 

 Madras, containing observations on two species of Batrachians of the 

 genus Oacopus. 



