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Dr. Mivart read a paper on the South American Canidce. The author 

 called attention to the difficulties in the way of the correct discrimination of 

 these animals, and to what appeared to him to be the unsatisfactory character 

 of some of Burmeister's determinations and descriptions. Forms to which 

 the names fulvipes, griseus, patagonicus, entrerianus, gracilis, vetulus, and 

 fulvicaudus had been assigned were declared to be quite insufficiently dis- 

 criminated from Canis azarce. On the other hand, two very marked varieties, 

 or possibly species, were noted and distinguished under the appellations 

 C. parvidens and C. urostictus, the type of each of which was in the British 

 Museum, both the skin and the skull extracted from it in each case. 



Mr. R. I. Pocock read a revision of the genera of Scorpions of the family 

 Buthidce, and gave descriptions of some new South-African species of this 

 family. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper on some points in the anatomy of the 

 Condor, Sarcorhamphus gryphus. 



A communication was read from Prof. R. Collett, containing the 

 description of a new Monkey from North-East Sumatra, proposed to be 

 called Semnopithecus thomasi. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



March 5, 1890.— Capt. Henry J. Elwes, F.L.S., Vice-President, in 

 the chair. 



Mr. G. H. Kenrick, of Edgbaston, Birmingham, and the Rt. Hon. Lord 

 Rendlesham, of Rendlesham Hall, Suffolk, were elected Fellows. 



Mr. C. G. Barrett exhibited a number of specimens of Dianthecia 

 carpophaga, Bork., bred by Mr. W. F. H. Blandford from larvae collected near 

 Tenby, Pembrokeshire, on flowers of Silene maritima. He remarked that the 

 series included a number of forms intermediate between D. carpophaga and 

 D. capsophila, and established the fact that the latter is only a local variety of 

 the former. Mr. W. H. B. Fletcher, Mr. Blandford, Mr. M'Lachlan, and 

 the Chairman took part in a discussion as to the identity of the supposed 

 species. Mr. Barrett further exhibited a specimen of Dianthecia luteago, 

 var. Barrettii, Db., also bred by Mr. Blandford from a larva found at Tenby, 

 and he remarked that the species had not previously been taken in England; 

 also a specimen of Botys mutualis, Zell.,— a species widely distributed in 

 Asia and Africa, — taken by Mr. C. S. Gregson near Bolton, Lancashire. 



Mr. A. F. Griffith exhibited and made remarks on the following : — two 

 specimens of Myelois Pryerella, taken in the London Docks in 1888, and, 

 for comparison, a series of M. ceratonia; two specimens of Penthina 

 grevillana and a series of P.pralongana, taken in Sutherlandshire, and, for 

 comparison, a series of P. sauciana, var. Staintoniana ; also two specimens 

 of a unicolorous variety of Hypermecia angustana from Horning, Norfolk. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited several abnormal specimens of Arciia caja, bred 



