fauna, often characterized by certain local and peculiar phases 

 common not only to the species but also to the genera occurring 

 in that particular locality. 



Mr. W. A. Lamborn, M.R.O.S., presented a paper, communi- 

 cated by Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., F.Z.S., containing some 

 notes on the habits of certain Reptiles in the Lagos district. 

 It contained an account of the habits of the Lizard Agama 

 colonon^m, especially relating to courtship, polygamous practices, 

 and combativeness, and of native superstitions in regard to 

 Chameleons. Observations were also recorded on a batch of eggs 

 of a Crocodile, probably Grocodilus niloticus, on their hatching, 

 on the behaviour of the newly-hatched young, and on the native 

 beliefs as to the habits of the mother crocodile. 



A paper presented by Dr. R. Broom, M.D., C.M.Z.S., entitled 

 " On the Gorgonopsia, a suborder of the Mammal-like Reptiles," 

 contained the descriptions of a new genus and two new species of 

 Gorgonopsids, based on well-preserved skulls discovered by 

 Mr. S. H. Haughton and the Rev. J. H. Whaits. The Gorgon- 

 opsia were re-established as a distinct suborder of the Thei^apsida, 

 and a list of the characters distinguishing the Gorgonopsians 

 from the Therocephalians was given. 



A second paper from Dr. Broom dealt with the South African 

 Rhynchocephaloid Reptile EujMrJceria capensis. A detailed 

 account of this species was given, and its affinities with allied 

 forms discussed. The evidence at present seemed to show that 

 Etqmrkeria was to be regarded as a member of an order of 

 generalised Rhynchocephaloid Reptiles, and might be taken as 

 the type of a most important suborder of this group containing 

 the ancestors of the Dinosaurs, the Pterodactyles, and the Birds. 



Mr. R. Lydekker, F.R.S., F.Z.S. , described the heads of a 

 male and female Dwarf Buffalo shot by Lieut. A. W. Hunt, R.N., 

 in Southern Nigeria, for which the name Bos caffer hunii was 

 suggested. This race agrees with the Gambian B. c. planiceros 

 in that the adult bulls are darker than cows, but is of smaller 

 size, with the orange band on the throat narrower. Mr. Lydekker 

 also proposed the name B. c. heddingtoni for a mounted bull of a 

 Red Dwarf Buffalo from Ashanti, mainly on the ground that it 

 is cut off from the Red Congo B. c. nanus by the above-mentioned 

 Nigerian race. 



Dr. G. Stewardson Brady, D.Sc, F.R.S., C.M.Z.S.. contributed 

 a paper containing the desci-iptions of two British Entomostraca 

 apparently new to science — one a. Biaptomus obtained abundantly 

 in Loch Ness many years ago but hitherto unnoticed ; the other 



