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Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited a young male Harlequin Duck, Cosmo- 

 netta histrlonica, shot off the coast of Northumberland on the 2nd December 

 last, and remarked that it was the second authentic British-killed specimen 

 in existence. [For further details, see p. 70. — Ed.] 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a paper on the Bats collected by Mr. C. M. 

 Woodford in the Solomon Islands. The localities at which Mr. Woodford 

 collected were chiefly Alu, in the large Shortland Island, and the adjoining 

 small island of Fauro. The collection contained twenty-three specimens 

 belonging to ten species, of which two were new to Science. One of these, 

 which represented also a new genus of Pteropine Bats, was proposed to be 

 called Nesonycteris woodfordi. 



A communication was read from Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant, containing 

 an account of ihe birds collected by Mr. C. M. Woodford at Fauro and 

 Shortland Islands, in the Solomon Archipelago, and in other localities of the 

 group. "Mr. Grant proposed to name a new Crow of the genus Macrocorax, 

 obtained in the island of Guadalcanar, after its discoverer, M. ivoodfordi. 



A communication was read from Mr. G. A. Boulenger, containing a 

 second contribution to the Herpetology of the Solomon Islands. It gave 

 an account of a collection made chiefly at two localities, Fauro Island and 

 Alu, Shortland Island, by Mr. Woodford. Seven species were described as 

 new to Science, amongst which was a new genus and species of Batrachians 

 of the family Ranidse, proposed to be called Batrachylodes vertehralis. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a paper describing the milk-dentition of the 

 Koala, Fhascolarctos cinereus, which was shown to be in the same state of 

 reduction as had been described by Prof. Flower in the case of the Th\ lacine. 



A second communication from Mr. Boulenger contained a description of 

 a new Gecko of the genus Chondrodactylus from the Kalahari Desert, South 

 Africa, based on a specimen which had been presented to the Natural 

 History Museum by Mr. J. Jenner Weir. The author proposed to call it 

 C. weiri.—V. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



March 2, 1887. — Dr. D. Sharp, President, in the chair. 



The Rev. T. W. Daltry, M.A., F.L.S., of Madeley Vicar.tge, Stafford- 

 shire; Dr. Neville Manders, of the Army Medical Staff, Mooltan, India; 

 Mr. Alfred Sich, of Chiswick; and Mr. J. T. M'Dougall, of Blackheath, 

 were elected Fellows. 



Mr. Slater exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Mutch, two specimens of Arctia 

 caja, one of which was bred from a larva fed on lime-leaves, and the other 

 from a larva fed on low plants, the ordinary pabulum of the species. The 

 object of the exhibition was to show the effect of food in causing variation 

 in Lepidoptera. 



