Contents (continued). 



Februaiy 4, 1902 (continued). 



Page 

 Mr. E. Degen. Notice of a Memoir on Ecdysis, as Morphological Evidence of the original 



Tetradactyle Feathering of the Bird's Fore-limb 54 



1. Notes on the Osteology of the Short-nosed Sperm-Whale. By W. Blaxland Benham, 

 ■ D.Sc, M.A., F.Z.S., Professor of Biology in the University of Otago, New Zealand. 



(Plates II.-I V.) 54 



2. On a Collection of Dragonflies made by Members of the Skeat Expedition in the 



Malay Peninsula in 1899-1900. By F. F. Laidlaw, B.A. (Plates V. & VI.) 63 



3. List of a small Collection of Orthopterous Insects formed by Sir Harry Johnston in 



British East Africa and Uganda in 1899 and 1900, with Descriptions of five new 

 Species. By W. F. Kirby, F.L.S., F.E.S., Assistant in the Zoological Department, 

 British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington 93 



February 18, 1902. 



Mr. L. W. Byrne, F.Z.S. On the Identity of Lepidogaster stictopteryx Holt & Byrne with 



L. microeephalus Brook 102 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, the skull of a supposed 



hybrid between the Sheep and the Pig 102 



Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major, F.Z.S. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, some jaws and teeth 



of Pliocene Voles {Mimomys, gen. nov.) 102 



Mr. Lydekker. Exhibition of, and remarks upon, a skull and two pairs of antlers of an 



Elk from Siberia 107 



1. On Mustela palcBottica from the Upper Miocene of Pikermi and Samos. By 0. I. 



FoESYTH Majoe, F.Z.S. (Plate VII.) 109 



2. On Two new Genera of Rodents from the Highlands of Bolivia. By Oldfield Thomas, 



F.E.S. (Plates VIII. & IX.) 114 



3. On some New Mammals from Northern Nyasaland. By Oldfield Thomas, F.E.S. . . 118 



4. On some Characters distinguishing the Young of various Species of Polypterus. By 



G. A. BouLENGER, F.E.S. (Plates X. & XI.) ] 21 



6. Description of a New Snake of the Genus Fsammophis, from Cape Colony. By G. A. 



BouLENGER, F.E.S. (Plate XII.) 126 



6. Observations upon the Carpal VibrissjE in Mammals. By Fean? B. Beddard, M.A., 



F.E.S., Vice-Secretary and Prosector of the Socieity 127' 



