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Show 1877.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 805 whorl large and inflated, impressed on the upper part with a broad concentric groove, the lower edge of which is bordered by a blunt prominent rib or keel just above the periphery, and with an obtuse tumid carina below surrounding the umbilicus, which is somewhat small, contracted, and non-perspective; aperture oblique, quadrately ovate, white or very pale ash-colour within; outer lip thickened, expanded and sharply reflexed, somewhat angularly dilated and obsoletely toothed in the middle, white ; margins approximating, joined by a moderate callus. Average diam. maj. 1 in. 6 lines, min. 1 in. 2 lines, alt. 9 lines. Hab. Madagascar. Var. a. Shell entirely white, with a pale olive-yellow epidermis. Var. b. Shell pale green, with three brown bands, and freckled with light diaphanous markings. Var. e. Shell pale yellowish olive, irregularly painted with longitudinal brown flames, and with the typical band round the umbilicus. The specimens figured are selected from a fine series of Madagascar shells in the collection of Sir David Barclay, Bart. EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXXX. Figs. 1, 2. Helix sepulchralis, Fer., p. 803. 3. subsepulchralis, Crosse, p. 804. 4, 5. hova, Angas, p. 804. 6-11. sakalava, Angus, p. 805. December 4, 1877. Prof. A. Newton, F.R.S., in the Chair. The following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November 1877 was read by the Secretary :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of November 1877 was 75, of which 3 were by birth, 34 by presentation, 26 by purchase, 3 by exchange, and 9 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 99. The most noticeable additions during the month were :- 1. A three-banded Armadillo (Tolypeutes tricinctus), from Brazil, purchased November 3rd. Of this scarce form of Armadillo, remarkable for its possession of the faculty of rolling itself up into a ball, we have had no living example since 1865. 2. A young example of Brown Pelican of the West Indies (Pelecanus fuscus), purchased Nov. 16th. This Pelican is seldom met with in captivity; and we have had no examples of it in our collection since we lost those described and figured in the Society's ' Proceedings,' 1868, p. 268, pl. xxv. 3. A Brown Tree-Kangaroo (Dendrolagus inustus), purchased November 19th. Of this rare animal we have received no specimen since 1865. The present example was obtained from M. Leon |