344 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XI, 



Contribution. 



Description. 



2 Cobras 



2 Snakes 



1 Golden Tree-Snake 



1 Snake 



Photographs of Game Birds. 

 1 Mounted Skin of a Bin- 



turong 

 1 Malay Palm-Civet 



1 Wild Cat .. 



A number of rare beetles 



from Kurrachee. 

 1 Clutch of Bustard Quails' 



Eggs. 

 A number of Keptiles from 



Gwalior. 

 Land and Fresh-water Shells 



from Upper C hind win 

 Land Shells from the 



Nilgiris. 



Naja tripudians 

 Tropidonotus stolatus 

 Chrysopelea ornata ... 

 Cylindrophis rufup ... 



Arctictis binturong 



Paradoxurus hermaphro- 



ditus. 

 Felis minuta , 



Turnix taigoor 



Contributor. 



Vety.-Maj. G. Evans. 



Do. 



Do. 



Do. 



Capt. F. T. Williams. 

 Le Baron Von H e e c k e- 

 renez. 



Do. 



Capt. T. G. B. Finny. 



ijor A. A. Fraser. 

 Mr. C. Maries. 

 Mr.'S. B.Bates. 

 Mr. L. Morgan. 



CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



Geological Description of Java and Madoura, Vols. I and II, with com- 

 plete set of maps, from tie Dutch Consul. Dr. Koch's reports on Rinderpest, 

 from Veterinary-Major J. Mills. Oceanic Ichthyology (Goode and Bean), 

 2 vols., in exchange. Life History of the North. American Birds, in exchange. 

 The Fishes of North and Middle America, in exchange. Memoirs of the Geolo- 

 gical Survey of India for 1896, in exchange. New Indian Coccids (Green) 

 The Coccidas of Ceylon (Green), and Report on Orthesia insignis, an Insect 

 Pest (Green), from E. Ernest Green. Journal of the Marine Biological 

 Association, Vol. IV, No. I, from Mr. W. F. Sinclair. Report on the Govern- 

 ment Experimental Farms at Poona and Surat, from Government. 



PAPERS READ. 



The following papers were then read and discussed : — 1. Camp Kit, by 

 John Wallace, C.E. 2. The large Indian Squirrel (Sciurus in licus) and its local 

 races or sub-species, by W. T. Blanford, F.R.S. 3. New species of Western 

 Peninsula Plants from North Kanara and Mysore, by W. A. Talbot, F.L.S. 4. 

 On some bats obtained in the Surat and Thana Districts by Mr. R. C. Wrough- 

 ton, by Oldfield Thomas, British Museum. 5. The Moths of India (supple- 

 mentary paper to the Volumes in the " Fauna of B. India ") by Sir 

 George F. Hampson, Bart., F.L.S., F.E.S. 6. List of the aculeate Hymen- 

 optera procured at Aden by Colonel Yerbury, R.A., and Captain Nurse, I.S.C., 



