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Show 1877.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 159 tomentosis, femoribus antennarumque scapo subtiliter granu-latis. Long. 11 lin. One example. Fam. CAssiDiDiE. ASPIDOMORPHA. sp. One specimen. Fam. COCCINELLID^E. EPILACHNA, sp. Two specimens. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE XXIV. Fig. 1. Batocera nebulosa, p. 158. 2. Pseudozcena alternata, p. 152. 3. Pachyrhynchus biplagiatus, p. 154. 4. Dipelicus nasutus, p. 153. 5. Oryctoderus coronatus, p. 153. PLATE XXV. Fig. 1. Batocera browni, p. 157. 2. Eupholus browni, p. 155. 3. Pachyrhynchus verrucatus, p. 154. 4. Eczemotes guttulata, p. 158. 5. Ectocemus ruficauda, p. 156. March 6, 1877. Dr. E. Hamilton, V.P., in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions Society's Menagerie during the month of February, 1877. The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of February was 57, of which 30 were acquired by presentation, 18 by purchase, 2 were bred in the Gardens, and 7 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals was 66. The most noticeable additions during the month of February were as follows :- 1. A Mexican Eared Owl (Asio mexicanus1), purchased of a 1 In bis new Catalogue of Owls (Cat. Birds, ii. p. 231) Mr. Sbarpe bas transferred the term americanus, which Mr. Salvin and I, following Burmeister, have used for the present species, to the American form of Asio otus, usually called wilsonianus, and has, moreover, given " Stephens " as the authority for the name. But the name americanus was made by Gmelin (1766), not by Stephens, and was founded on Brisson's Asio americanus, which, so far as I can decide, is much more likely to have been intended for the present bird than for A. wilsonianus. Whether " Strix mexicana, Grin.," founded ultimately on the |