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Für größere Schmetterlinge empfiehlt sich, eine dickere Gumm i- 
lösung zu nehmen. 
Bei diesem unsern Verfahren gelingt das Übertragen vorzüglich, 
und dasselbe hat vor Allem den Vortheil, daß dadurch dem Beob- 
achter die Oberseite der Schuppen zugekehrt ist, wodurch auch die 
zarten Farbennuancen, wie z.B. bei den Lycaeniden, sichtbar sind, so 
wie ferner den, daß die dicken sammtartigen Wollhaare am inneren 
Rande der Hinterflügel beweglich bleiben. 
2. Zoological Society of London. 
1st April, 1884. — Professor Flower exhibited and made remarks 
on a series of skulls of the Bottle-nosed Whale (Hyperoodon rostratus) , illu- 
strating the various stages presented by this animal as regards the confor- 
mation of its skull in the different ages of both sexes. Prof. Flower also 
exhibited, on behalf of Messrs. Langton and Bicknell, a specimen of sper- 
maceti obtained from the head of the Hyperoodon. — Mr. Sclater exhibi- 
ted and made remarks on specimens of the eggs of two species of Testudi- 
nata (Testudo elephantopus and Chelys matamata), recently laid by animals 
living in the Society's Gardens. — Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe exhibited 
and made remarks on a Redthroated Pipit (Anthus cervinus), caught near 
Brighton in March last. Mr. Sharpe exhibited at the same time an example 
of the true Water-Pipit (Anthus spinoletta), captured at Lancing, in Sussex, : 
in March 1877. — Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., exhibited and 
made remarks on a large living Scorpion (Buphus cyaneus) from Ceylon. — 
A communication was read from Prof. T. Jeffrey Parker, being the 
first of a series of a studies in New-Zealand Ichthyology. The present paper 
gave a description of the skeleton of Regalecus argenteus. The species was 
founded on a specimen cast ashore at Moeraki, Otago, in June 1883. — 
A communication was read from Viscount Powerscourt, F.Z.S., con- 
taining an account of the origin and progress of the herd of Japanese Deer 
at Powerscourt. — A communication was read from Mr. G. A. Boulenger, 
giving the diagnoses of some new Reptiles and Batrachians from the Solo- 
mon Islands, collected and presented to the British Museum by H.B. Guppy, 
Esq., of H.M.S. ‚Lark‘. — A communication was read from Mr. ©. ©. 
Waterhouse, containing an account of the Coleopterous Insects collected 
by Mr. H. O. Forbes in the Timor-Laut Islands. — Mr. F. D. Godman, 
F.R.S., read a paper containing an account of the Lepidoptera collected by 
the late Mr. W. A. Forbes on the banks of the Lower Niger, the Rhopalo- 
cera being described by Messrs. F. D. Godman and O. Salvin, and the 
Heterocera by Mr. H. Druce. The species of Butterflies were fifty in 
number, and comprised representatives of all the families of Rhopalocera 
hitherto known from Tropical Africa, except the Erycinidae, a group but 
feebly developed in this region. — Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe read the de- 
scription of three rare species of Flycatchers, viz. Alseonaxz minima, Lioptilus 
abyssinicus, and Lioptilus Galinieri. Mr. Sharpe also described an apparently new 
species of Nuthatch, discovered by Mr. John Whitehead in the mountains of 
Corsica, and proposed to be called Sitta Whiteheadi. — Mr. G. E. Dobson, 
F.R.S., read a paper on the myology and visceral anatomy of Capromys 
melanurus, of which rare mammal specimens had been lately obtained for 
