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Show 94 MR. A. THOMSON'S REPORT O N T H E INSECT-HOUSE. [Mar. 4, was a piece of the sheerest luck ; the foreigners at Ichang have even succeeded in shooting one, though a good many trials have been made by them, and the precipices on which the Antelopes occur are not more than 5 or 6 miles from Ichang1. March 4, 1890. Prof. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of February 1890 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of February was 16, of which 7 were acquired by presentation, 4 by birth, 1 by exchange, 1 by purchase, and 3 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 72. Mr. F. E. Beddard exhibited and made remarks on some living specimens of Oriental Earthworms of the genus Perichceta (P. indica) found in a greenhouse in Scotland, and supposed to have been introduced from India. Mr. Arthur Thomson, the Society's Head Keeper, exhibited a series of Insects reared in the Insect-house in the Society's Gardens during the past year, and read the following Report on the subject:- Report on the Insect-house for 1889. Examples of the following species of Insects have been exhibited in the Insect-house during the past season:- Silk-producing Bombyces and their Allies. Indian. Attacus atlas. Anthercea mylitta. pernyi. Actios selene. cynthia. Cricula trifenestrata. American. Samia cecropia. Telea promethea. Telea polyphemus. Actios luna. angulifera. Hypochera io. 1 [A skin and skull of this animal have been recently received by the British Museum from our Corresponding Member Mr. P. H. S. Montgomery. It is obviously closely allied to Nemorhcedus cinereus, Milne-Edwards (Reeherches s. 1. Mamm., Atlas, pi. 70), and N. swinhoii, Gray (P. Z. S. 1862, p. 263), pi. 35, but may be different, and if so should be called Nemorhcedus henryanus. I cannot, however, ascertain whether Pere Heude's name has been actually published or not.-P. L. S.] |
