252 mr. f. moore on limnaina and euplceina. [may 1, 



Chittira fumata. 



Danais fumata, Bntler, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, p. 53. 



Chittira fumata, Moore, Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 9, pi. 4. f. 1. 



Danais taprobana, Felder, Eeise d. Novara, Lep.ii. p. 349, pi. 42. 

 f. 4 (1867). 



Danais (Chittira) taprobana, Marshall and de Niceville, Butt, of 

 India &c. p. 44 (1882). 



Hab. Ceylon. 



May 1, 1883. 

 Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read an extract from a letter addressed to him by 

 Mr. "W. L. Crowther, C.M.Z.S., dated Hobart Town, February 23, 

 1883. 



In reply to inquiries addressed to him as to the possibility of 

 obtaining living specimens of the Thylacine (Thi/lacimis cynoce- 

 phalus), ]\Ir. Crowther stated that the animal was certainly not 

 yet extinct. The hawkers from the interior of the colony frequently 

 oflFered its skins for sale in Hobart Town, thus showing that the 

 skin-men with whom they deal were acquainted with the localities 

 where they are still found. Mr. Crowther promised to use his best 

 endeavours to obtain specimens for the Society. 



The Secretary exhibited on behalf of Mr. H. "Whitely the skin 

 of a rare Bird of Paradise (lUiipidoniis fftiliplmi-fertii). This speci- 

 men had been received in a collection which bad been made in the 

 island of Waigiou. So far as was known, this was only the fourth 

 example of this species which had ever been obtained. The type 

 specimen from which the figure in Gould's 'Birds of New Guinea' 

 had been taken was in the Museum of Warsaw. 



In reference to Dr. Meyer's communication (P. Z. S. 1882, p. 688) 

 on the desirability of adopting a standard of nomenclature for the 

 description of the colours of natural objects, and Mr. Harting's 

 previous communication on the same subject (P. Z. S. 1882, p. 391), 

 the Secretary laid upon the table a copy of Radde's 'Internationale 

 Farbenskala,' which had been recently added to the Society's Li- 

 brary, and explained the way in which it was intended to be used. 



. The following papers were read : — 



