1884. PROF. FLOWER ON HYDROCHCERUS CAPYBARA. 253 



in the upper jaw being 30 millim. instead of 72 as in the adult. 

 They evidently represent the narrow apical portion of the permanent 

 teeth, which as growth proceeds wears off, and they are not in any 

 case milk-teeth. As the first of the series, or premolar, is as fully 

 developed as the one which follows it (or first true molar) it must 

 either have no predecessor, or one which has disappeared at an early 

 stage of intra-uterine life. 



Contents {continued). 



Page 



Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe. Exhibition of specimens of the Red-throated Pipit {Anthis cervinus) 

 caught near Brighton, and of the true Water-Pipit {Anthus spinoktta) captured at 

 Lancing, in Sussex '^"" 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S. Exhibition of a living example of a Scorpion from Ceylon . 207 



Prof. T. Jeffrey Parker. Abstract of a Memoir on Begalecus argenteus . . 207 



1. On the Acclimatization of th. Japanese Deer at Powerscourt. By Viscount Powerscocrt, 



F.Z.S 2"^ 



2. Diagnoses of new Reptiles and Batrachiaus from the Solomon Islands, collected and pre- 



"sented to the British Museum by H. B. Guppy, Esq., M.B., H.M.S. ' Lark.' By G. A. 

 BOULKNOER, F.Z.S 210 



3. On the Coleopterous Insects collected by Mr. H. O. Forbes in the Timor-Laut Islands. By 



Chas. O. Waterhouse. (Plate XVI.) 213 



4. On the Lepidoptera collected by the late W. A. Forbes on the Banks of the Lower Niger. 



— Rhopalocera, by F. D. Godman and 0. Saltin. Hetekocera by H. Druce. (Kate 



XVII.) 219 



h. Description of three rare Species of Flycatchers. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 



&c., Department of Zoology, British Museum 230 



6, On an apparently new Species of European Nuthatch. By R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S., 



F.Z.S., &c., Department of Zoology, British Museum 233 



7 On the Myology and Visceral Anatomy of Capromys niekmurus, with a Description of the 



Species. By G. E. Dob.son, M.A., F.R.S. (Plates XVIII.-XXI.) 233 



May 6, 1884. 



The Secretary. Report on the Additions to the Society's Menagerie in April 1884 251 



Prof. Bell. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, Estheria meUtcnsis 251 



Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, an old Indian drawing 



containing a flgure of a White Elephant 251 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.Z.S. Notice of a Memoir on the Reptiles and Batracbians of the 



Solomon Islands "^ 



L Note on the Dentition of a young Capybara (Hydrochcerus capyhara). By Prof. W. H. 



Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., P.Z.S., &c. 



252 



