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Show PROCEEDINGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC M E E T I N GS OF TUB ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. January 15, 1884. Prof. Newton, F.R.S., F.Z.S., in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December 1883:- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of December was 81, of which 58 were by presentation, 10 by purchase, and 13 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 114. The Secretary read a communication from Mr. J. C. O'Halloran, Chief Commissioner and Police Magistrate for Rodriguez, stating that he had sent for the Society a specimen of a large Lizard said to be found only in that Island and to be very rare there. The following note upon the specimen in question from Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.Z.S., was also read :- " The specimen you kindly send to me belongs to an undescribed species of the genus Phelsuma, a small group of diurnal Geckos confined to Madagascar, the Seychelles, Comoro, Mascarene, and Andaman Islands, and of which I distinguish 7 or 8 species. The Rodriguez form was previously known to me from a single specimen, about the size of the one you now submit to me, presented by Mr. E. P R O C . Z O O L . Soc-1884, No. I. 1 |