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Show 1896.] ON EUROPEAN AND ASIATIC BUTTERFLIES. 609 3. Two Kiippell's Vultures (Gyps rueppelli), received in exchange May 28th, from the Zoological Gardens, Cairo. These fine birds, which I saw at»Cairo when there last year (see P. Z. S. 1895, p. 400), are said to have been obtained in the Western Desert of Egypt, and are of much interest, as the species has not been previously noticed within the confines of Egypt proper. The authorities of the Gizeh Gardens have kindly parted with them in our favour. Mr. Sclater exhibited the skin of a species of Cercopithecus which had been received, living, by the Society on the 20th September 1895, and had died in the Menagerie on the 23rd of April last, and a water-colour drawing of the same animal by Smit.. Mr. Sclater had been uncertain as to the correct determination of this specimen (which had been obtained by Mr. John M . W . Pigott, when Acting-Administrator for the I. B. E. A. Company at Mombasa, East Africa, from a native wTho had caught it) in its lifetime, but now believed that it must be referable to his Cercopithecus stairsi (P. Z. S. 1892, p. 580, pl. xl.), as shown by comparison with one of the typical specimens. The present specimen, which was a female, agreed in nearly every respect with the male presented by Mr. F. Hintze, June 7, 1893 (see P. Z. S. 1893, p. 612), except in being of smaller size, which was of course attributable to its sex, and in having the bright rufous spot on the temples not so clearly marked although plaiuly visible. The short erect hairs on the front of the forehead were also more stained with rufous than in the male specimen. Mr. Sclater remarked that this distinct species of Cercopithecus had now been received from three different spots on the East Coast of Africa-Chindi at the mouth of the Zambesi, Mozambique, and British East Africa. Mr. Sclater exhibited a series of 12 water-colour drawings of African Antelopes, taken partly from specimens in the Natural History Museum and partly from examples living in the Society's Gardens, executed by Mr. Edmund Caldwell, of 41 Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale. A communication was read from Mr. Henry J. Elwes, F.Z.S., and Mr. Edwards, containing a revision of the European and Asiatic Butterflies of the Family Hesperiidse. The species treated of in this paper were about 450 in number and were divided into about 100 genera. This paper will be printed in the Society's ' Transactions.' |
