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(Cuculus himalayanus, C. striatus, and C. intermedins) belonged to other 

 species. He also gave reasons for not adopting S. Miiller's C. canoroides, 

 and accepted the term C. saturatus, Hodgson, as the correct scientific 

 name. 



A communication was read from Mr. F. M. Woodward entitled 

 "Further Observations on the Genitalia of British Earthworms." This 

 paper chiefly dealt with supplementary gonads which were found to be 

 much more common than had been supposed ; in one specimen an 

 hermaphrodite gland was discovered in addition to testes and ovaries. 



April 18.— Sir W. H. Flower, K.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 March ; and called special 

 attention to three White-tailed Gnus, Connochcetes gnu, from the Transvaal 

 (a male and two females), obtained by purchase March 7th ; and to three 

 Springboks, Gazella euchore, from South Africa, deposited by H.R.H. the 

 Prince of Wales. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on a specimen of a curious 

 variety of the Pig-tailed Monkey, Macacus nemestrinus, from the Baram 

 River, lately living in the Society's Menagerie. 



A communication was read from General Sir Lothian Nicholson, K.C.B., 

 R.E., Governor of Gibraltar, respecting the Barbary Apes, Macacus inuus, 

 living on the Rock of Gibraltar, which were stated to have increased of late 

 years, and were now supposed to be nearly sixty in number. 



Mr. W. L. Sclater made some remarks on the principal animals noted 

 in the Zoological Gardens of Antwerp and Amsterdam, which he had 

 lately visited. 



A communication was read from Mr. A. E. Shipley, containing an 

 account of the anatomy and histology of two Gephyrean worms of the genus 

 Sipunculus from Zauzibar, together with a few observations on Sipunculids 

 in general. 



Mr. Oldfield Thomas gave an account of a small collection of Mammals 

 obtained in Central Peru by Mr. J. Kalinowski. Amongst several species 

 represented in this collection, either new or of such interest as to deserve a 

 record, was especially noted a new form of Rodents of the family Muridce, 

 proposed to be called Ichthyomys stolzmanni. 



Mr. H.J. Elwes read a communication from Mr. W. Warren describing 

 a large number of new species and new genera of Moths of the family 

 Geometridce, from Sikkim and other districts of India, with notes on the 

 localities and on other points. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



