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Show 64 DR. G. BENNETT ON DENDROLAGUS LUMHOLTZI. [Feb. 3, C.M.Z.S., and had been obtained at Bir, a small place on the Mekrau coast of Beloochistan. Mr. Ffinch stated that he was Julodis ffinchi. endeavouring to procure more specimens, but that few of these insects had been met with in that locality. The Secretary read the following extracts from a letter addressed to him by Dr. George Bennett, F.Z.S., dated Sydney, December 23, 1884:- " I observe in the Society's ' Proceedings' (1884, p. 387), just received, a new Tree-Kangaroo (Dendrolagus lumholtzi) described from Northern Queensland. This has confirmed what I had long suspected, that there was one to be found there. You may recollect that in the 'Proceedings' for 1873 (p. 518), I mentioned the supposed existence of a species of Tree-Kangaroo (Dendrolagus) in Northern Queensland, some such animal being apparently well known to the blacks of Cardwell, who report that it is a Kangaroo that climbs trees and leaves deep scratches on the bark. I heard of such an animal from many other sources when in Queensland, and made |