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Show 1892.] MR. O. THOMAS ON A NEW ANTELOPE. 195 Pairings took place, and for the first time I succeeded in rearing the larvae and obtaining a second brood of this species. The larvae were very handsome and were reared upon whitethorn. I also succeeded in rearing the larvae of Eacles imperialis, and the pupae (3) in the Insect-house are alive and healthy. I had also the larvae of Eacles regalis, but these I did not succeed in rearing. Owing to the cold and wet summer of last year collecting was very difficult, and many species which I have generally easily obtained are absent from this list in consequence. Mr. Sclater exhibited a flat skin of the Wild Ass of Somali-land (Equus asinus somalicus), taken from a specimen shot by M r . J. D. Inverarity, about fifty miles from Berbera, about eighteen months ago, and made the following remarks "•- " Mr. Inverarity has kindly sent m e the skin of the Wild Ass of Somali-land (Equus asinus somalicus), which I now exhibit. It will be observed that the present specimen differs from that previously described and figured (P. Z. S. 1884, p. 542, pi. 50) in having slight shoulder-stripes, as well as a dorsal stripe. The shoulder-stripe on the off side is the more distinct of the two. The general colour of the skin is also not of so deep a grey tint. All the four feet are banded as in the former specimen." Mr. Henry Seebohm exhibited four examples (two males and two females) of Picus richardsi from the island of Tsu-sima in the Straits of Corea, and pointed out that one of them had more white at the tips of the primaries than has yet been found in examples from Corea. As this is the only alleged difference between P. richardsi and P. kalinowskii, the latter name, being the most recent, must be henceforth regarded as a synonym of the former. Mr. Oldfield Thomas exhibited a mounted head of the East- African Antelope hitherto referred to Oryx beisa, Riipp., but which he considered to represent a new species. The specimen described was from the neighbourhood of Mount Kilimanjaro, and had been generously presented to the National Museum by Messrs. Rowland Ward and Co., of Piccadilly. The species was proposed to be called ORYX CALLOTIS, sp. n. (Plate XIV.) Size of O. beisa ; horns as in that species, but very slightly curved backwards. Ears long, their tips sharply pointed, and ornamented with a prominent black tuft, the hairs of which are from two to three inches in length. Ground-colour of face between the black markings rich fawn, as dark as the sides of the neck, except just round the muzzle, where the colour is white. Arrangement of markings much as in 0. beisa, except that the black line passing through the eye runs further down under the throat and in some specimens, |