LONDON. Zoological Society, March 15.—Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., vice-president, in the chair.—Mr. R. Lydekker read a paper on the skull and markings of the quagga, in which he directed attention to vestiges of the face-gland of Hipparion in the skull, and expressed his belief that certain alleged differences in the colour and markings of various specimens of the quagga were due to feeding or to the manner in which such markings came 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 described a new species of spot-nosed monkey, of the genus Cercopithecus, from Benin, West Africa.—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 tuberculdta, Tiliqua scincoides, and Varanus griseus.—Mr. Percy I. Lathy contributed a paper dealing 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.