86 Death of Mr. E. Blytli. [Maech, 



makes the above qiiasi corrections of the habitat furnished by the original 

 possessor of the specimen, little real progress can be made in obviating such 

 mistakes in future ; as far however as can be judged at present, Dr. Gray 

 seems to be himself mainly to blame. 



Tr. hurum, Buch. Ham. 



Tr. sewaare, Buch. Ham. 



Tr. ocellatus, Gray. 



At pages 49, 50, 51, Dr. Gray separates all these forms as distinct 

 species, but without characterising them. 



As regards Tr. hurum, I have nothing to add to what I have remarked 

 previously in my paper. Of 2V. sewaare^ Dr. Gray figures " the skidl of a young 

 sjpecies,^^ which fairly corresponds with a skull extracted by myself from a 

 fresh example of a Trionyx ocellatus, Gray. As far therefore as present 

 materials allow us to decide, all these three names must rank as mere synonyms 

 of gangeticus, though they have all probably been unwittingly applied to 

 another species, which in the above paper I have separated under the name 

 of Tr. JBuchanani. 



Isola peguensis. — At p. 51, Dr. Gray establishes a new genus, Isola, for 

 the reception of the skull of a Trionyx, procured in Pegu, by myself, display- 

 ing the effects of my revolver bullet on it, but which, as I have shown above^ 

 Dr. Gray now considers to have come from Hindustan {vide p. 45). This 

 species, if not identical with, is very closely allied to, Tr. stellatus, Geoif., 

 but the coloration of the head of this species (if my identification of it, 

 vide Plate III, is correct) would seem to differ from Dr. Gray's description 

 of an example in spirit. 



2. On the discovery of a super-orhital chain of hones in the Arhoricolce 

 {Wood Partridges. ) — By J. Wood-Masoj^". 



This note will be printed in Journal, Part II, 1874. 



3. Description of new Marine Mollusca from the Indian Ocean. 

 "By Messes. G. and H. Neyill. 



This paper will appear in Journal, Part II, No. 1, 1874. 



The President then addressed the meeting as follows : 

 Gentlemen, before we separate this evening, I should wish to say a few 

 words in tribute to the memory of one who laboured long and well in the 

 interest of this Society, and of whose death we have so lately heard. 



I speak of Mr. Blyth, of whose loss we must all of us have heard with 

 unmixed regret. On looking round, I do not find one present who had sat 

 with him at this table or who had worked with him here in India, and who 

 could speak personally of his labours, not that such is necessary, for our 

 Journal teems with his work, and his name is familiar to every naturalist in 

 India, and to every working member of this Society. 



