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Show 18 Mr. G. A. BOULENGER, F.R.S., exhibited a remarkable anterior paddle of an Ichthyosaur from the Lias (?) of Somersetshire for which he proposed the name Ichthyosaurus extremus. This paddle represented an exaggeration of the Latipinnate type, with the intermedium articulating with the humerus, and with radial and ulnar sesamoid bones. Mr. A. E. PRATT exhibited a series of skins of Paradise-birds which he had recently collected in the Owen Stanley range, British New Guinea ; also a series of photographs taken by his son during a two years' residence amongst the natives near the frontier of German New Guinea. Mr. R. LYDEKKER read a paper in which he drew attention to the occurrence of vestiges of the pit for the face-gland of the Hipparion in three modern species of Equus, namely, E. caballus, E. quagga, and E. asinus, Dr. Forsyth Major having been the first to record this in the case of the two last. Mr. Lydekker then used this character, together with certain details in the markings, to differentiate E. burchelli from E. quagga. Finally, the author expressed his belief that certain alleged differences in the colour and markings of various specimens of the Quagga were due to fading, or to the manner in which such markings come out in photographs. Mr. LYDEKKER also read a paper on the Wild Ass of Mongolia, of which an example was in possession of the President at Woburn Abbey, and expressed his opinion that it was the true Equus hemionus of Pallas, and distinct from the Ass of Tibet and Ladak. The latter he proposed should bear the name Equus hemionus kiang. Mr. R. I. POCOCK, the Superintendent of the Gardens, gave a description of a new species of Monkey of the genus Cercopithecus, from Benin, naming it C. sclateri, after Dr. P. L. Sclater, who monographed the genus in 1893. C. sclateri is closely allied to C. erythrotis, but differs in having the nose-spot and ear-fringe white, the tail only partially red in its proximal half on the underside, and a black occipital crown as in C. p>e>tcmrista. Mr. F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.S., read the first of a series of papers entitled " Contributions to the Anatomy of the Lacertilia." It dealt with the venous system of Iguana tuberculata, Tiliqua scincoides, and Varanus griseus. Mr. PERCY I. LATHY, F.Z.S., contributed a paper which dealt with a collection of Butterflies from Dominica, West Indies, of which three were described as new and thirteen had hitherto not been recorded from the island. The three new species were: |
