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Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on the heads of a pair of 

 Swayne's Antelopes, Bubalis swaynei, obtained by Mr. J. W. Clarke and his 

 party in Somali-land, and sent for exhibition by Messrs. R. Ward & Co. 



Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read a note regarding the real habitat of the Land- 

 Planarian, Bipalium kewense, which, as it appeared, was indigenous to one 

 of the South Pacific Islands. 



A communication was read from Mr. Edgar A. Smith, on the Laud- 

 Shells of St. Helena, based on a large and complete collection of the 

 terrestrial Mollusks of that island made by Capt. W. H. Turton, R.E., 

 and deposited in the British Museum. Mr. Smith estimated the total 

 number of indigenous species of this group in St. Helena to be twenty-seven, 

 of which seven only are now living on the island — the remainder having 

 been exterminated by the destruction of the primeval forests. 



Mr. F. £. Beddard read some notes on the anatomy of the Indian 

 Darter, Plotus melanogaster, as observed in a specimen of this species 

 recently living in the Society's Gardens. 



Mr. Seebohm exhibited a specimen of a Pheasant from the valley of 

 Zarafshan, in Central Asia, which he referred to a new species dis- 

 tinguishable from P. principalis by its white collar, and proposed to call it 

 P. tarnovskii, after its discoverer. 



Mr. R. J. L. Guppy exhibited specimens of the animal, the teeth and 

 jaws, and the shell and egg of Bulimus oblongus, and remarked briefly 

 thereon. 



Mr. G. R. Sowerby read descriptions of seven new species of Land- 

 Shells from the U.S. of Colombia. 



A communication was read from Mr. W. Schaus, containing descriptions 

 of some new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Brazil, Mexico, and 

 Peru. 



May 3.— Prof. W. H. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 

 Society 's Menagerie during the month of April, 1892, and called attention 

 to a Finely-marked Owl, Pseudoscops grammicus, from Jamaica, presented 

 by the Jamaica Institute, being the first example that has reached the 

 Society. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on a fine specimen of the egg 

 of JEpyornis, the extinct giant bird of Madagascar, obtained from Southern 

 Madagascar, and brought to this country by Mr. Pickersgill, H.B.M. Vice- 

 Consul at Antananarivo. 



Mr. Old field Thomas read a paper on the probable identity of certain 

 specimens formerly in the Lidth de Jeude Collection, and now in the British 

 Museum, with those figured by Albert Seba in his ■ Thesaurus' of 1734. 





