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President's Address. 
[Feb. 
nologj used for names of families and subfamilies. In this matter it 
may be hoped in future that the British Association rules will be followed, 
and the terminations idee and ince employed, as they are by almost all Eng¬ 
lish zoologists. It is confusing to find Ampullariacea and Paludinidce , 
Helicidce and Auriculacea, Aciculidce, Pomatiacea, Helicinacea, &c., as 
families and Onchidiidce, Testacellidce , Limacea , Philomycidce, Arionidce, 
Helicea, Vaginwlidce, Orthalicea, Suceineacea, 0tinea, Melampea &c., 
Cyclotina, Cyclophorim, &c., Pupinea, Cyclostomina and Bealiea as sub¬ 
families. 
The value of Mr. Nevill’s catalogue consists in the large number of 
authentic localities, and in the care which has been given to the generic 
and sub-generic classification of that most difficult family the Helicidee. 
To a few details, such as the position assigned to Camptonyx and to the 
sub-genus Thysonota, I should be disposed to take exception, but I believe 
the greater part of the classification is sound. As a rule too, though not 
so often as would be desired, in each locality, the name of the province or 
district is given after that of obscure villages, streams or hills, a most 
important matter constantly neglected by compilers of catalogues, and 
which should be invariably attended to. 
The promised description by Mr. Moore of the new species in the late 
Mr. W. S. Atkinson’s large collection of Indian Lepidoptera will, it may 
be hoped, be in the hands of members of this Society before long. Mean¬ 
time it is satisfactory to see that numerous descriptions of Indian butter¬ 
flies and moths from the collections of Mr. Atkinson, Capt. Beavan, Col. 
Godwin-Austen and others have appeared within the past year in the Pro¬ 
ceedings of the Zoological Society. In the same Journal for the preceding 
year Mr. F. Moore gave a complete list of the known Lepidoptera of the 
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, together with a table shewing the geogra¬ 
phical distribution of each species, a most important addition. Mr. Wood- 
Mason has continued his notices of certain orthopterous forms in the same 
periodical and elsewhere. 
During the past year, the arrangements for the description of the very 
varied collections made by the late Dr Stoliczka in the Punjab hills, 
Kashmir, Ladak, the Kuenlun, Eastern Turkestan, the Pamir, Wakhan 
&c., when accompanying the mission sent by the Government to Yarkand 
and Kashghar in 1873-74, have been completed by Mr. Wood-Mason, and a 
commencement of printing the various reports has been made. The follow¬ 
ing is a list of the naturalists engaged in working out the different groups 
of invertebrata. 
Mollusca, . Mr. G. Nevill. 
Coleoptera, . Messrs. D. Sharp, II. W. Bates and 
Dr. J. S. Baly. 
