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Show 1891.] MR. A. T H O M S O N ' S R E P O R T O N T H E INSECT-HOUSE. 179 March 3, 1891. 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 1891 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of February was 65, of which 35 were by presentation, 1 by birth, 15 by purchase, 3 were received in exchange, and 11 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 69. Mr. Sclater exhibited the typical and unique specimen of Mac-gregor's Paradise-bird (Cnemophilus macgregori) from the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, which had been kindly lent to him by the authorities of that Institution for the purpose of being figured in 1 The Ibis.' Mr. Sclater remarked that Cnemophilus, though possibly allied to Xanthomelus, was a very distinct genus, having a structure of the bill aud frontal plumes something like that of Diphyllodes. 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 1890. 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. pernyi. cynthia. ricini. Samia cecropia. ceanothi. Telea polyphemus. Anther&a cytherea. menippe. *Henucha smilax. American. African Anthercea mijlitta. Actias selene. Cricula trifenestrata. Telea promethea. angulifera. Hypochera io. Gynanisa isis. Bun&a cafiraria. * Exhibited for the first time. 12* |