158 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Mr. Sowerby read a communication forwarded to him by Dr. 0. F. von 

 Moellendorff, giving an account of a collection of Land-Shells from the 

 Samui Islands, Gulf of Siam. These land-shells were referred to thirty- 

 three species, of which many were described as new to science. 



A communication from Dr. D. Sharp contained a list of the Hemiptera 

 Heteroptera of the families Anthocoridce and Ceratocombidce, collected by 

 Mr. H. H. Smith in the island of St. Vincent, with descriptions of new 

 genera and species, prepared by Prof. P.R. Uhler, upon specimens submitted 

 to him by the West-Indian Committee. 



Mr. 0. Thomas read the third of his contributions towards our knowledge 

 of the mammals of Nyasaland, based, like the two former, on specimens 

 forwarded to the British Museum by Mr. H. H. Johnston, C.B., H.B.M. 

 Commissioner in British Central Africa. The present paper contained 

 remarks on thirty-five mammals, of which two were described as new, and 

 were named respectively Lepus whytei and Procavia johnstoni. 



A communication from Dr. R. W. Shufeldt gave an account of the 

 conclusions to which he had arrived respecting the affinities of the birds of 

 the order Steganopodes. 



Entomological Society of London. 



Feb.%8th, 1894. — Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Vice- 

 President, in the chair. 



Professor August Forel, M.D., of the University of Zurich, was elected 

 an Honorary Fellow of the Society, to fill the vacancy caused by the death 

 of the late Professor H. A. Hagen, M.D. 



Mr. John Pratt, of the Cedars, New Barnet, and Mr. Michael Yeatman 

 Woolf, of 1, Marlborough Place, St. John's Wood, N.W., were elected Fellows 

 of the Society. 



Mr. G. C. Champion called attention to a supposed new Longicoru 

 beetle, described and figured by Herr A. F. Nonfried, of Rakonitz, Bohemia, 

 under the name of Callipogon friedlanderi, in the Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. 1892, 

 p. 22. He said that the supposed characters of the insect were due to the 

 fact that the head had been gummed on upside down ! He also exhibited 

 an extensive collection of Coleoptera and Hemiptera-Heteroptera made by 

 himself in the island of Corsica in May and June last. 



The Rev. Theodore Wood exhibited a variety of Saturnia carpini, with 

 semi-transparent wings, a large proportion of the scales being apparently 

 absent, bred with several examples of the type-form at Baldock, Herts ; also 

 a pale variety of Smerinthus populi, which was said to have been bred, with 

 several similar specimens, from larvae marked with rows of red spots on 

 both sides. 



Mr. R. South exhibited a variety of Argynnis aglaia, approaching the 

 form known as var. charlotta, and a variety of Euchelia jacobece, in which 



