Abstract
LONDON Zoological Society, March 1.—Prof. W, H. Flower, F.R.S., president, in the chair.—The Secretary exhibited the cast integument of a large spider (Mygale bistriata?) which had been shed in the Society's Gardens.—Mr. G. E. Dobson, C.M.Z.S., read a paper on the anatomy of the family Erinaceidæ, commencing with that of the curious and rare form Gymnura Rafflesii, with whifh the species of Erinaceus were compared. Gymnura was shown to be a peculiarly central form, the survivor probably of a once widely-spread group. Altogether the anatomy of thirteen species of Erinaceidæ was treated of in this paper.—A communication was read from Mr. F. Moore, F.Z.S., containing the descriptions of some new genera and species of Asiatic nocturnal lepidoptera. The characters of 150 new species were given, representing eighty-two genera, of which twenty-nine were new to science.—A communication was read from Mr. R. Collett, C.M.Z.S., containing an account of the breeding habits of the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus), as observed on the Fro Islands, off Troudhjein's Fiord, in Norway.—Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.Z. S., read a note on the fantail flycatcher of Western Australia (Rhipidura presssi), of which he had lately had for the first time an opportunity of examining a specimen.
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