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Show 1889.] MR. A. T H O M S O N ' S R E P O R T O N T H E INSECT-HOUSE. »O March 5, 1889. Professor 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 1889 :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of February was 90, of which 62 were by presentation, 3 by birth, 16 by purchase, and 9 on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 87. The most noticeable additions during the month were:- 1. A collection of Reptiles from the Cape Colony, presented, as have been many previous collections, by our Corresponding Member the Rev. G. H " R. Fisk. Amongst these are seven specimens of the new Tortoise, Homopus femoralis, lately described by Mr. Boulenger (P. Z. S. 1888, p. 251, pi. xiv.), and two of Homopus signatus, a species not previously received. 2. Four Marbled Polecats (Putorius sarmaticus), obtained in the vicinity of Quettah, presented by Col. Sir Oliver B. C. St. John, K.C.S.I., R.E., F.Z.S., February 8th. This well-marked species is rare in most museums and quite new to the Society's collection. 3. A fine specimen of Owen's Apteryx (Apteryx oweni) from the South Island of N e w Zealand, presented by Prof. T. Jeffery Parker, C.M.Z.S., 19th February, 1889. It is now several years that specimens of the Apteryx have been deficient to the collection. W e are therefore very glad to receive the present example from our excellent Correspondent. Prof. G. B. Howes, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks on a specimen of the mammary region of a female of Myrmecobius fasciatus, which showed four teats and a small embryo attached to each of them. The animal had been obtained at Morgans on the N . W . bend of the Murray River, and forwarded to Prof. Howes by Dr. E. Stirling, Curator of the Adelaide Museum. Mr. O. Thomas exhibited a specimen of a new species of Muntjac, recently discovered in the neighbourhood of Mount Mouleyit, Tenasserim, by Signor L. Fea, of the Museo Civico, Genoa, and proposed to be called Cervulus fees. This Muntjac differed from its nearest ally 0. crinifrons, Sclater1, by its unbushed forehead, shorter tail, and by the presence of a white stripe down the front of its thighs. Mr. Arthur Thomson exhibited a series of Insects reared in the 1 P.Z.S 1885, p. 1, pi. i. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1889, No. VII. 7 |