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Show 608 MR. BOULENGER ON A GECKO FROM SOUTH AFRICA. [Nov. 6, i fore wings between the first median nervule and the submedian nervure, is depicted as a costal marking of the hind wings. " In the figure of Lyccenesthes lunulata (pi. vi. fig. 12) the characteristic generic character of slender tufts of hairs at the extremity of both 2nd and 1st median nervules in the hind wings-in this species white and rather conspicuous-is not indicated." A communication received from Dr. R. W . Shufeldt, C.M.Z.S., contained the following correction to his paper " O n the Affinities of the Steganopodes " (P. Z. S. 1894, p. 160) :- " Owing to the fact that I was unable to correct the proof of m y paper on the Steganopodes, which appeared in the ' Proceedings' of the Society for 1894, an unfortunate error crept into it, which I here desire to rectify. There is no question but that the Cormorants, the Anhingas, and the Gannets, each and all, constitute good families, and m y taxonomic scheme should stand as given below, instead of the way it appeared, thus:- SuPERFAMIlIKS. FAMILIES. GENERA. (Pelecanidae Pelecanus. Phalacrocoracidse . . Phalacrocorax. Anhingid* Anhinga. Sulidae Sula. Phaethontoidea .... Phaethontidae Phaethon. Fregatoidea Fregatidae Fregata.''' Mr. Salvin exhibited a pair of the newly described Butterfly (Omithoptera paradisea, Staudinger, Iris, Dresden, vi. p. 350) from the Finisterre Mountains, German N e w Guinea, belonging to the Godman and Salvin collection. Mr. Boulenger exhibited an interesting Gecko from South Africa, with the following remarks :•- " This Gecko has been sent to m e by M r . Richard T. Lewis, with the remark that it was captured during the recent winter (July 1894) on the snow upon the highest portion of the Drakensberg range, N . W . Natal, very active and apparently enjoying life on ice and snow. The fact of a Gecko being found under such circumstances is highly interesting, considering that this group of Lizards is almost entirely confined to the hotter parts of the globe, only a few species extending to the borders of the Mediterranean and to China and Japan in the Northern Hemisphere, and to N e w Zealand in the Southern Hemisphere. But the Lizard itself deserves special notice as belonging to a genus, (Edura, which, until very recently, was believed to be confined to Australia. In 1888, however, I described a South-African species from Damaraland under the name of (Edura africana. The present Lizard, although closely allied, differs in the smaller and |