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Show 1894.] MR. O. THOMAS ON A GIRAFFE FROM SOMALILAND. 135 from Australia; Sesia culiciformis and Sesia bembiciformis,European; Lasiocampa monteiri and a species of Rhabdosia, both from S.E. Africa. The specimen of Lasiocampa monteiri is not set out, as the upper edges of the under wings present a very curious hairy appearance, and look as though they had been singed. This could not be seen in a set-specimen. The specimen of Rhabdosia, sp. inc., is a male, and there is a single specimen (a female) in the National Collection, but it has not yet been named. The cocoons of Actias mimosce, from which the specimens exhibited emerged, were very kindly sent from S.E. Africa by the Eev. H . A. Junod, who had seen our Insect-house before leaving Europe. Other cocoons of this species were deposited by the Hon. Walter Eothschild, from which five pairs of moths emerged. During M a y last I captured some wild specimens of the common Pearl-bordered Fritillary, and placed them in one of the cases, with a good supply of their food-plant (Viola): many eggs were laid. The young larva? hatched in due course, and fed well at first; they then became sluggish and crawled into the corners of the case. After a time they commenced to feed again, and a second brood was produced-the first specimen emerging on the 31st July. I exhibit this evening half a dozen examples of this second brood. In a state of nature this species is single-brooded. The specimens of the Hornet Clearwing of the Osier (Sesia bembiciformis) that were exhibited during the past season created great interest; and many visitors, before reading the label, thought they were really hornets or wasps. The most remarkable and interesting insect exhibited during the past year was a Goliath Beetle (Golialhus druryi) from Accra, West Africa, which was presented by P. W . Marshall, Esq., on the 5th October, and which died on the 16th of December. This is probably the first specimen of this Beetle ever brought to England alive. It had been in Mr. Marshall's possession since May 1893, and had been in England some time before it was received at the Gardens. It fed principally upon fruit, and preferred ripe melons to any other food. Of Orthoptera a large number of the Canadian Stick-insects (Diaplieromera femorata) were reared from ova deposited in 1892. Three specimens of Leaf-insects (Phyllium gelonus) from the Seychelles were presented by Dr. Nowell in December; but I am sorry to say they did not live long. Mr. Oldfield Thomas exhibited the skin of a Giraffe from Somaliland, which had been brought to his notice by Messrs. Eowland Ward and Co., and pointed out the considerable difference in the character of the markings shown by it as compared with the S.-African Giraffe. In the Northern form the dark marks were large, sharply defined, and only separated from each other by narrow pale lines ; while in the S.-African form these marks were |