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Mr. G. A. BoULENGER, F.R.S., exhibited a remarkable anterior 

 paddle of an Ichtliyosaur fi-om the Lias (?) of Somei'setshire, for 

 which he proposed the name IcliiJiyosaurus extreinius. This paddle 

 represented an exaggeration of the Latipinnate type, with the 

 intermedium articulating with the humerus, and with radial and 

 ulnar sesamoid bones. 



Mr. A. E. Pratt exhibited a series of skins of Paradise-birds 

 which he had recently collected in the Owen Stanley range, 

 British ISTew Guinea ; also a series of photographs taken by his 

 son during a two years' residence amongst the natives near the 

 frontier of German I^ew Guinea. 



Mr. R. Lydekker read a paper in which he drew attention to 

 the occurrence of vestiges of the pit for the face-gland of the 

 Hipparion in three modern species of Equus, namely, E. caballus, 

 E. qtiagga, and E. asinus, Dr. Forsyth Major having been the 

 first to i-ecord this in the case of the two last. 



Mr. Lydekl?:er then used this character, together with certain 

 details in the markings, to differentiate E. burchelli from E. quagga. 

 Finally, the author expressed his belief that certain alleged dif- 

 ferences in the colour and markings of various specimens of the 

 Quagga were due to fading, or to the manner in which such 

 markings come out in photographs. 



Mr. Lydekker also read a paper on the Wild Ass of Mongolia, 

 of which an example was in possession of the President at Woburn 

 Abbey, and expressed his opinion that it was the true Equv.s 

 hemionus of Pallas, and distinct from the Ass of Tibet and Ladak. 

 The latter he pi-oposed should bear the name Equus heiniomis 

 kiang. 



Mr. R. I. PococK, the Superintendent of the Gardens, gave a 

 description of a new species of Monkey of the genus Cercopithecus, 

 from Benin, naming it G. sclateri, after Dr. P. L. Sclater, who 

 monographed the genus in 1893. C. sclateri is closely allied to 

 C. erythrotis, but differs in having the nose-spot and ear-fringe 

 white, the tail only partially red in its joroximal half on the 

 underside, and a black occipital crown as in C. petam-is-ta. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., read the first of a series of papers 

 entitled " Contributions to the Anatomy of the Lacertilia,." It 

 dealt with the venous system of Iguana titberculata, Tiliqua 

 scincoides, and Varamis griseus. 



Mr. Percy I. Lathy, F.Z.S., conti-ibuted a paper which dealt 

 with a collection of Butterflies from Dominica, West Indies, of 

 which three were described as new and thirteen had hitherto not 

 been recorded from the island. The three new species were : — 



