Mr. George French Angas communicated notes on a collection of land and fresh-water shells from S.W. Madagascar; amongst these Mr. Angas pointed out three new species of Helix, one of Bulimus, and one of Physa, which he proposed to call Helix Watersi, H. Balstoni, H. ekongoensis, Bulimus Balstoni, and Physa madagascariensis.
A second communication from Mr. Augas contained the description of a remarkable shell from Japan, which he named Thatchera mirabilis; also the description of a new species of Leiodomus, from Kurrachi, Scinde, proposed to be called L. kurrachensis.
June 19, 1877.— E.W.H. Holdsworth, Esq., F.Z.S., Vice-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 May, 1877, and called particular attention to a Pangolin, Manis tricuspis, purchased May 24th, being, so far as was known, the first example of this remarkable form of Edentata that had ever reached the country alive; a male of the new Mesopotamian Fallow Deer, lately described and figured by Sir Victor Brooke, in the Society's 'Proceedings,' as Cervus Mesopotamicus (see 'Zoologist' for March last, p. 94): and an animal purchased on the 29th May as a Cheetah, but which appeared to belong to a new species of the genus Felis, distinct from, although closely allied to, that animal—for this the temporary designation of Felis lanea, or Woolly Cheetah, was proposed.
The Secretary read a letter addressed to him by Mr. J.M. Cornély, announcing that his female Hydropetes inermis had just produced three young ones.
Mr. J.E. Harting exhibited and made remarks on a variety of the common Snipe, intermediate in colour between the usual form of that species and the so-called Sabine's Snipe. This bird, shot in Ireland and forwarded by Mr. Douglas Ogilby, was described by Mr. Williams in 'The Zoologist' for January last (pp. 23, 24).
Mr. B. Tegetmeier exhibited a specimen of a curiously malformed sternum of the Tawny Owl.
Mr. John Murray, Naturalist to the 'Challenger' Expedition, exhibited and made remarks on a series of Sharks' teeth, Whales' ear-bones, and other specimens dredged up at great depths during the 'Challenger' Expedition.
Mr. P.L. Sclater read the first of a series of reports on the collection of birds made during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger,' containing general remarks on the collection, which was stated to consist of about 679 skins of terrestrial and 198 of oceanic birds, besides a considerable series of specimens in salt and in spirit, and a collection of eggs, principally of the oceanic species.
