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Show 566 MR. SCLATER ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [NOV. 26, THEONELLA SWINHOEI. B.M. Sponge thick, short, cup-shaped ; base broad, expanded ; the cup shallow, with a very thick edge ; the outer surface covered with a rather smooth crustaceous coat, without any appearance of oscules. Hab. Formosa (Swinhoe). November 26, 1868. Dr. Edward Hamilton, V.P., in the Chair. Mr. P. L. Sclater called attention to the following recent noticeable additions to the Society's Menagerie:- 1. A female European Bison (Bos bison), bred in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of Amsterdam, and received in exchange from that Society November 6th. 2. A Monkey of the genus Macacus, deposited by Major C. Richards, of the Bengal Staff Corps, November 9th, having been captured at Dalamcote Fort, Bhootan, in December 1863. This animal appeared to be the Macacus assamensis, very shortly described by M'Clelland in his " List of Mammalia and Birds collected in Assam," in the Society's ' Proceedings' for 1839, p. 148. Whether it was the Pithex oinops or P. pelops of Hodgson (J. A. S. B. ix. p. 1212) could only be determined by an accurate examination of the animal when dead, and comparison of it with Hodgson's type specimens. It seemed, at all events, judging from the living animal, |