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Show 1877.] MR. A. H. GARROD ON THE MUSK-DEER. 287 legs in colour and armature, and furnished with a scopula beneath the digital joints. The falces are tolerably long and strong, of a darker hue than the cephalothorax, straight but sloping on their inner sides towards the extremity, where they are furnished with long reddish hairs. The maxillce are rather long and strong, broadest towards their extremity, wheie they are rounded, straight, but inclined slightly to the labium ; they are of a reddish yellow colour, palest at their fore extremity, where they are furnished thickly with a fringe of strong reddish hairs. The labium is of a somewhat oblong form, half the length of the maxillae, with a convex outer surface and truncated at the apex, its colour being similar to that of the maxillae. The sternum is heart-shaped, paler-coloured than the labium, and clothed with hairs. The abdomen is oblong-oval, tolerably convex above, rather broad behind, rounded at the posterior extremity, and truncated before; it is clothed with brown, greyish-sandy, and yellow-brown hairs, and is of a foxy yellow-brown colour, margined above with a broad but not very clearly defined dull yellowish border ; the greater part of the underside is occupied by a large vase-shaped dark red-brown area, the fore extremity of which has a whitish-yellow border; the spinners are short, those of the superior pair the strongest. The genital aperture is small, much obscured by hairs, but apparently somewhat crescent-shaped. A single example in the Rev. G. Brown's collection. 4. Notes on the Anatomy of the Musk-Deer (Moschus moschiferus). By A. H . G A R R O D , M.A., F.R.S., Prosector to the Society. [Eeceived March 3, 1877.] In the large collection of living animals brought home by the Prince of Wales from India were two male specimens of the Musk- Deer (Moschus moschiferus), nearly adult, from Nepaul, presented to His Royal Highness by Sir Jung Bahadoor, whose sudden death has been so recently announced. As far as I am aware, the only other individual of the species which had been seen alive in this country, was the female presented by Sir Richard Pollock, K.C.S.I., on March 31st, 1869, to this Society, which formed the subject of Professor Flower's valuable memoir published in our ** Proceedings' (1875, p. 159). . ' On Feb. 2nd of this year one of the Prince s specimens died at Sandringham ; and His Royal Highness having graciously given permission that a post-mortem might be made upon it, Mr. Clarence Bartlett placed it in m y hands. Pathologically it did not present any features of special interest, |