608 MR. BOULENGER OX A GECKO FROM SOUTH AFRICA. [Nov. 6, 



fore u'ings between the first median nervule and the Bubraedian 

 nervure, is depicted as a costal marking of the hind wings. 



"In the figure of Lyccenesihes lunulata (pi. vi. fig. 12) the charac- 

 teristic generic character of slender tufts of hairs at the extremity 

 of both 2nd and 1st median nervules in the bind wings — in this 

 species white and rather conspicuous — is not indicated." 



A communication received from Dr. E. W. Shufeldt, C.M.Z.S., 

 contained the following correction to his paper " On the Affinities 

 of the Steganopodes " (P. Z. S. 1894, p. 160) :— 



" Owing to the fact that I was unable to correct the proof of my 

 paper on the Steganopodes, which appeared in the ' Proceedings ' of 

 the Society for 1894, an unfortunate error crept into it, which 1 

 here desire to rectify. There is no question but that the Cor- 

 morants, the Anhingas, and the Gannets, each and all, constitute 

 good families, and my taxonomic scheme should stand as given 

 below, instead of the way it appeared, thus : — 



Pelecanoidea 



SuPERFAMII/IES. FAMILIES. GeNEUA. 



' Pelecanidse Pelecanus. 



Pbalacrocoracidae . . Phcdacrocora.r. 



Anhingidae Anhinga. 



Sulidoo Sulci. 



Phaethontoidea .... Phaethontidse Phaethon. 



Fregatoidea Fregatidse Fregata." 



Mr. Salvin exhibited a pair of the newly described Butterfly 

 (Omithoptera paradisea, Staudinger, Iris, Dresden, vi. p. 350) from 

 the Finisterre Mountains, Germau New Guinea, belonging to the 

 Godman and Salvin collection. 



Mr. Boulenger exhibited an interesting Gecko from South 

 Africa, with the following remarks : — 



" This Gecko has been sent to me by Mr. Richard T. Lewis, with 

 the remark that it was captured during the recent winter (July 

 1894) on the snow upon the highest portion of the Drakensberg 

 range, N.W. Natal, very active and apparently enjoying life 

 on ice and snow. The fact of a Gecko being found under 

 such circumstances is highly interesting, considering that this 

 group of Lizards is almost entirely confined to the hotter parts 

 of the globe, only a few species extending to the borders of the 

 Mediterranean and to China and Japan in the Northern Hemi- 

 sphere, and to New Zealand in the Southern Hemisphere. But 

 the Lizard itself deserves special notice as belonging to a genus, 

 (Edura, which, until very recently, was believed to be confined to 

 Australia. In 1888, however, I described a South-African species 

 from Damaraland under the name of (Edvra africana. The 

 present Lizard, although closely allied, differs in the smaller and 



