LIST OF CONTENTS. 

 PART III.— 1887. 



May 3, 1887. 



Page 

 Mr. J. Jenner-Weir, F Z.S. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a skull of a feral Boar (Siis 



scrofa), obtained at Tauratrga, New Zealand 397 



1 . On a new Snake of the Genus Lamprophis now living in the Society's Gardens. By G. A. 



BouLENGER. (Plate XXXIV.) 397 



2. On the Lepidoptera of Japan and Oorea.- -Part I. Ehopalocera. By J. H. Leech, B.A., 



F.E.G.S., P.L.S., F.Z.S., F.B.S., &c. (Plates XXXV. & XXXVI.) 398 



3. On a second Collection of Birds formed by Mr. L. Wray in the Mountains of Perak, 



Malay Peninsula. By E. Bowpler Sil^upb, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c., Zoological Department, 

 British Museum. (Plates XXXVII. & XXXVIII.) 431 



4. Description of some new Lepidoptera from Sikkim. By H. J. Elwes, F.Z.S 444 



;i. Descriptions of some new or little-known Butterflies from India, with some Notes on the 

 Seasonal Dimorphism obtaining in the Genus Melanitis. By Lionel de Nicevillb, 

 F.E.S. (Plates XXXIX. & XL.) 448 



May 17, 1887. 



Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D. Extracts from a letter from Dr. Emin Pasha, containing some 



remarks upon Natural History specimens procured in Monbottu 468 



Mr. A. Thomson. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, specimens of Papilio porthaon reared 



in the Society's Insect-house 468 



Prof. G. B. Howes, F.Z.S. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, an original drawing of the head 



of an abnormal Palimirus (P. penicillatus) 468 



Mr. W. F. Kirby, F.E.S. Notice of a Memoir on the Subfamily Lihelldinm 470 



1. Notes on Specimens in the Hume Collection of Birds. — No. 5. On Syrnium maingayi. 



By E. Bowdler Shaepe, F.Z.S 470 



2. On the Presence of a Canal-system, evidently Sensory, in the Shields of Pteraspidian Fishes. 



By A. Smith Woodward, F.Z.S., F.G.S., of the British Museum (Natural History). 478 



3. Note on the " Lateral Line" of Squahraja. By A. S.mitfi Woodward, F.Z.S 481 



June 7, 1887. 



The Secretary. Report on the Additions to the Society's Menagerie in May 1887 482 



Mr. Sclater. Eemarks upon two Species of North- American Foxes living in the Society's 



Gardens 482 



1. Eemarks on certain Asiatic Euminants. — I. Budorcas taxicohr, Hodgson. The Gnu-goat 



or Takin. By A. O. Hume, C.B., F.Z.S 483 



2. Notes on some Species of South-African Snakes. By Edmond Symonds, of Kroonstad, 



Orange Free State. (Communicated by J. H. Guuney.) 486 



3. List of a small Collection of Coleoptera obtained by Mr. W^. L. Sclater in British Guiana. 



By Martin Jacoby. With the Description of a new Species by H. W. Bates, F.E.S. . . 490 



4. On a hitherto unrecognized Feature in the Larynx of the Anurous Amphibia. By G. B. 



Howes, F.Z.S., F.L.S., .Assistant Professor of Zoology, Normal School of Science and 



Eoyal School of Mines,. S. Kensington 491 



Contents co7itimied on page 3 of wrapper. 



