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April 17, 1888. 

 Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1888 : — 



The total niinnber of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of March was 34, of which 14 were by 

 presentation, 4 l)y birth, 9 by purchase, 5 were received in exciiange, 

 and 2 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same 

 period, by death and removals, was 99. 



Mr. Charles Stewart exhibited a preparation showing the structure 

 and development of the brood-pouch of Nototrema marsupiatum. 



Mr. Boulenger exhibited the type specimen of a new species of 

 marsupial Tree-Frog, Nototrema Jissipus, Blgr., recently discovei ed by 

 Mr. G. A. Ramage at Iguar.isse, Pernambuco. Tliis species agreed 

 with N. oviferum, Weinl., in the dermo-ossification of the skull, but 

 differed from all other species in the nearly free toes. The greatest 

 interest attached to this sjiecinien was its habitat, all previously known 

 marsupial Frogs {Nototrema and Awphic/nothodon) being inhabitants 

 of the Andes, from Central America to Peru. 



A communication was read from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerel], con- 

 taining some remarks on Atavism, with refereiue to a paper on the 

 same subject read by Mr. J. Bland Sutton at a previous meeting of 

 the Society. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. List of the Lepidoptera Heterocera collected by Mr. CM. 

 Woodford at Suva^ Viti Levu, Fiji Islands, with the 

 Descriptions of some new Species. By Herbert Druce, 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



[EeceiTed April 17, 1888.] 



(Plate XIII.) 



Examples of all the species enumerated in the following list were 

 taken by Mr. Woodford during the months of February, March, 

 and April 1886. This small collection is especially interesting on 

 account of the exact localities being carefully noted, as well as for the 

 new species it contains. Ninety-four species are rejiresented, eight of 

 which I have described as new. The specimens are all in my own 

 collection. 



