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Show 1888.] ON L E P I D O P T E R A H E T E R O C E R A F R O M FIJI. 219 April 17, 1888. Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1888 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March was 34, of which 14 were by presentation, 4 by birth, 9 by purchase, 5 were received in exchange, and 2 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 99. Mr. Charles Stewart exhibited a preparation showing the structure and development of the brood-pouch of Nototrema marsupiatum. Mr. Boulenger exhibited the type specimen of a new species of marsupial Tree-Frog, Nototrema fissipes, Blgr., recently discovered bv Mr. G. A. Ramage at Iguarasse, Pernambuco. This species agreed with N. oviferum, Weinl., in the dermo-ossification of the skull, but differed from all other species in the nearly free toes. The greatest interest attached to this specimen was its habitat, all previously known marsupial Frogs (Nototrema and Amphignathodon) being inhabitants of the Andes, from Central America to Peru. A communication was read from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerel!, containing some remarks on Atavism, with reference to a paper on the same subject read by Mr. J. Bland Sutton at a previous meeting of the Society. The following papers were read :- 1. List of the Lepidoptera Heterocera collected by Mr. CM. Woodford at Suva, Viti Levu, Fiji Islands, with the Descriptions of some new Species. By H E R B E R T D R U C E, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. [Received April 17, 1888.] (Plate XIII.) Examples of all the species enumerated in the following list were taken by Mr. Woodford during the months of February, March, and April 1886. This small collection is especially interesting on • account of the exact localities being carefully noted, as well as for the new species it contains. Ninety-four species are represented, eight of which I have described as new. The specimens are all in my own collection. |
