464 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



of his journey towards the Congo. This letter and journal had been taken 

 from the Arabs on the Upper Congo and forwarded to the President by the 

 Officers of the Congo Free State. 



The Secretary read a report on additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 during June, July, August, and September, and called special attention to 

 two fine specimens of the Hamadryad Snake of India and Burmah (Ophio- 

 phagus elaps; a series of mammals and birds from British Central Africa, 

 presented by Mr. H. H. Johnston, and brought home by Mr. Alexander 

 Whyte ; a young male White-tailed Gnu, Connochates gnu, born in the 

 Menagerie on June 23rd, being the first occasion of this Antelope having 

 bred in the Society's Gardens ; a female Eland of the striped form, Oreas 

 Canna livingstonii, from the Transvaal, the first individual of this variety 

 received by the Society ; two Giant Tortoises, Testuclo elephantina, from 

 the Aldabra Islands, presented by Rear-Admiral W. R. Kennedy ; a 

 youug male Antelope, Tragelaphus gratus, bred in the Zoological Gardens, 

 Hamburg, and received July 27th. 



Mr. F. E. Blaauw communicated some remarks on the colour of the 

 bill in a living specimen of Cygnus americanus. 



Mr. R. Trimen forwarded a reply to remarks of Dr. A. G. Butler on 

 his paper on the Manica Butterflies collected by Mr. Selous. 



Dr. R. W. Shufeldt sent a correction to his paper " On the Affinities 

 of the Stcganopodes" recently published in the Society's ' Proceedings.' 



Mr. 0. Salvin exhibited a pair of the newly described butterfly Orni- 

 thoptera paradisea, from the Finisterre Mountains, German New Guinea. 



Mr. C. D. Sherborn exhibited a copy of, and made remarks on, the 

 recently published reprint of George Ord's ■ American Zoology.' 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger exhibited a Gecko, forwarded by Mr. R. T. Lewis, 

 which had been captured in winter, fully active, on the snow upon the 

 highest portion of the Drakensberg Range, Natal. It belonged to a genus 

 believed until 1888 to be characteristic of the Australian fauna, and differed 

 from its nearest ally, CEdura africana, in the smaller and convex granules 

 covering the head, and in the rostral shield not entering the nostril. 

 Mr. Boulenger proposed for it the name (Edura nivaria. 



Mr. Martin Jacoby read descriptions of new species of (Edionychis 

 and allied genera of Coleoptera. 



Mr. W. G. Ridewood read a paper on the hyoid arch of Ceratodus. The 

 author instituted a comparison between the ventral elements of the hyoid 

 arch of Ceratodus and the basi- and hypo-hyal cartilages of the Elasmo- 

 branchii. The relations of the hyomandibular cartilage were dealt with in 

 detail, and attention was called to the wide range of variation which this 

 vestigial cartilage exhibits. Arguments were also adduced to show that 

 there is no connection between the reduction of the hyomandibular in the 

 Dipnoi and its adaptation as a secondary suspensorium in the hyostylic fishes. 



