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LONDON. Zoological Society, May 1.—Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., vice-president, in the chair.—Skin of a remarkable new duiker from Nyasaland, presented to the British Museum by Mr. S. W. Frank: Oldfield Thomas. The animal was named Cephalophus walkeri, sp.n.—Further notes on anthropoid apes: Hon. W. Rothschild. The author exhibited five mounted specimens, one skeleton, six skulls, and a photograph of the following races:—Gorilla gorilla, dark-headed race, G. gorilla, red-headed race, G. gorilla matschiei, G. gorilla diehli, Simia vellerosus, and S. vellerosus fuliginosus.—Mammals collected in South-West Australia for Mr. W. E. Balston: Oldfield Thomas. Thirty-two species and subspecies were enumerated, of which the following were described as new:—Scoteinus balstoni, sp.n., Tachyglossus aculeatus ineptus, subsp.n.—A series of papers on the Lepidoptera collected in South Tibet by the officers during the recent expedition to that country under Colonel Sir Frank Younghusband. Mr. H. J. Elwea gave an account of the butterflies contained in the collection, which comprised thirty-three species and varieties, four of which were described as new. The moths, exclusive of the Tineidæ, have been worked out by Sir George Hampson, Bart., who enumerated the sixty-three species of which specimens were obtained. Of these, examples of thirty-six species were taken at moderate elevations in Sikhim, and belonged to the Indian fauna, two being described as new; twenty-seven species belonged to the Palæarctic fauna, of which nine were widespread and eighteen Tibetan; ten of these were described as new. An account of the Tineidæ was supplied by Mr. J. Hartley Durrant; they were referred to four species, two of which were new.—Contributions to the knowledge of the vascular and respiratory systems in the Ophidia and to anatomy of the genera Boa and Corallus: F. E. Beddard.