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of the Butterflies collected by Capt. J. W. Pringle, RE., while on the 

 march through British East Africa from Teita to Uganda. A new Papilio 

 was proposed to be called P. pringlei, and a new genus and species of 

 Satyridce was named Raphiceropsis pringlei. Altogether examples of 

 134 species were obtained. 



April 11th. — W. T. Blanford, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. 



Mr. Sclater made some remarks on the possibility of breeding the 

 African Mud-fish, Protopterus, in the Society's Gardens, and called attention 

 to a recently-published paragraph, in ' Le Movement Geographique,' in 

 which some account was given of the phenomena of reproduction of this 

 Mud-fish, as observed by the French missionaries on Lake Tanganyika. 



Prof. Karl von Bardeleben, of Jena, read a paper on the bones and 

 muscles of the mammalian hand and foot, in which he explained his views 

 on the rudiments of the sixth and seventh digits or rays. These rudiments, 

 as he showed, are situated both on the inner and the outer borders of the 

 hand and foot; they are present in nearly all the orders of mammals, 

 especially in the lower forms, and are always provided with special muscles. 



Dr. G. Herbert Fowler pointed out the characters of a new species of 

 Sea-Pen of the family Veretillidm from a specimen belonging to the Madras 

 Museum, and proposed to call it Cavemularia malabarica. Dr. Fowler 

 likewise exhibited and made remarks on an example of Lidaria phalloides, 

 belonging to the same Museum. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard described two new genera comprising three new 

 species of Earthworms from Western Tropical Africa. 



A communication was read from Mr. Oldfield Thomas, containing an 

 account of a new Antelope from Somaliland, which he proposed to call 

 Neotragus rupicola. Capt. H. G. C. Swayne, R.E., and his brother, Capt. E. 

 Swayne, B.S.C., had discovered this Antelope during their recent explora- 

 tions in that country, but had not been able to bring back specimens. Two 

 skins and a frontlet, lately received by Capt. H. G. C. Swayne from his 

 native hunters, had enabled Mr. Thomas to establish the species. — 

 P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



March %8th, 1894. — Henry John Elwes, Esq., F.L.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw, of 58, Coniston Road, Edinburgh, was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. McLachlan announced the sudden death, on the 23rd inst, of 

 Mr. J. Jenner Weir, who joined the Society in 1845, and had been one of 



