Contents {continued). 



February 5, 1488. 



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 Professor Flower. Eemarks upon the Burmese Elephant, deposited in the Society's Gardens 44 



Mr. F, Day, F.Z.S. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a specimen of a Dog-fish {Acanthias 



wdgans) internally devoured by parasites 44 



Mr. Henry Seebohm, F.Z.S. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a skin of the American 



Kestrel (Falco sparverius), shot in the neighbourhood of Helmsley, Yorkshire 4.0 



Mr. G. F. Butt, F.Z.S. Exhibition of two examples of a Variety of the Eed Grouse {Laffopiis 



scoiicus), shot in Westmoreland , . 45 



1. On the Lesser Koodoo, Sfrepsiccros imberhis, of BIyth. By P. L. Sclatke, M.A., Ph.D., 



F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. (Plate IV.) 45 



2. On some Species of Chiroptera from Australia. By W. Leche, University of Stockholm . 49 



3. Description of a new Species OiLaniarius from Ashantee. By R. Bowdler Siiakpe, F.L.S., 



F.Z.S., &c.. Department of Zoology, British Museum. (Plate V.) 54 



February 19, 1S84. 

 The Secretary. Report on the Additions to the Society's Menagerie in January 1884 c>5 



Mr. ScLATER. Eemarks upon a copy of the lately issued ' Guide to the Calcutta Zoological 



Gardens ' and on an example of Ekinoceros lasiotis 55 



Mr. W. T. Bla.vpord, F.R.S., F.Z.S. Report on the Collection of Drawings of Himalayan 



Birds lately presented to the Society's Library by Mr. Brian H. Hodgson, F.Z.S 56 



L Contributions to the Systematic Arrangement of the Asteroidea. — II. The Species of 

 Oreaster. By F. Jeffrey Bell, M. A., Sec. R Jtf.S. , Professor of Comparative Anatomy 

 in King's College 57 



2. Description d'une espece nouvelle de Gerbilline d' Arable {Meriones longifrms). Par 



Fernand Lataste, C.M.Z.S. (Plates VI. and VII.) 88 



3. Description of an Asiatic Species of the Neuropterous Genus Corydalis. By J. Wood- 



Mason. (Plate VIII.) 110 



4. On the MoUusca procured during the ' Lightning ' and ' Porcupine ' Expeditions, 1868-70 



(Part VII.). By J. Gwyn Jeffreys, LL.D., F.R.S., F.Z.S. (Plates IX. & X.) Ill 



March 4, 1884. 



Mr. Howard Saunders. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, two rare Gulls and a Dusky 



Shearwater 150 



Dr. Ch. W. LiJTKEN, F.M.Z.S., Letter from, containing remarks as to the possibility of there 



being more than one Species of the Genus Taehyglossvs inhabiting Australia 150 



Mr. J. E. Harting, F.Z.S. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, some antlers of the Roe-deer 



{Capreolus capreea) from Dorsetshire 152 



