New Zealand form, are invested with a thick horny epidermis which is quite easily bent on the margin of the aperture, where the animal has not yet deposited the internal shelly enamel.—Edgar A. Smith (British Museum).
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES.
Zoological Society of London.
January 15, 1878.—R. Hudson, Esq., F.R.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 December, 1877, and called especial attention to a family of Gelada Baboons, Cynocephalus gelada, deposited by Mr. C. Hagenbeck on the 7th; and to a pair of Musk Deer, Moschus moschiferus, presented by Sir Richard Pollock, K.C.S.I., Commissioner at Peshawur, N.W.P., which arrived on the 15th.
A communication was read from Mr. Andrew Anderson, containing some corrections and additions to a former paper of his on the Raptorial Birds of the N.W. Provinces, read before the Society on the 21st March, 1876.
A communication was read from Mr. F. Moore, containing a revision of the genera and species of European and Asiatic Lepidoptera belonging to the family Lithosiidæ. The author characterized thirty-eight genera in this memoir, and gave the descriptions of eighty new species.
Mr. A. Boucard read a paper in which he gave a list of the birds he had collected during a recent expedition to Costa Puca. The number of birds collected during his five months' stay was about one thousand in number, representing two hundred and fifty species, amongst which were two new to science, Zonotrichia Boucardi and Sapphironia Boucardi of Mulsant, and many others of great rarity.
Two papers were read by Mr. G. French Angas. The first contained descriptions of seven new species of land shells recently collected in Costa Rica by Mr. A. Boucard. The second contained the description of a new species of Latiaxis, from an unknown locality, proposed to be called L. elegans.
A communication was read from Dr. H. Burmeister, containing notes on Conurus hilaris and other Parrots of the Argentine Republic.
A communication was read from Count Salvadori, in which an account was given of the birds collected during the voyage of H.M.S. ' Challenger,' at Temate, Amboyna, Bauda, the Ke Islauds and the Aru Islands.
Professor Garrod read a paper on certain points in the anatomy of the Momotidæ, in which he adduced facts substantiating their affinities with the Todidæ, Alcedinidæ, and other Piciformes.
