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Show 692 MESSRS. G. W. AND E. G. PECKHAM ON [Nov. 21, An extract was read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by Mr. J. S. Mackay, dated Dunbar House, Kullu, Punjaub, 10th June, 1893, relating to a young Snow-Leopard, then about one year old, which had been sent to Mrs. Mackay as a present from Thakur Debi Chand, of Gundla, in Lahaul, when quite small. Mr. Mackay wrote :-" The animal is well over six feet now. He is kept tied to a thin long cord during the day on the tennis-court in the shade, where he gambols and plays with the dogs. At night he is let loose inside the house and sleeps on my wife's bed. I have never known or heard of anyone exercising such a peculiar fascination over any animal as my wife does over this Snow-Leopard. He follows her about like a dog, and if he misses her a moment he simply screams for her." Several photographs representing this animal were exhibited. Mr. W . B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S., exhibited some hybrid Pheasants supposed to be crosses between the Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) and the Gold Pheasant (Thaumalea picta), and between the first-named bird and the Silver Pheasant (Nycthemerus argentatus). The following papers were read :- 1. On the Spiders of the Family Attidee of the Island St. Vincent. By G. W . and E. G. PECKHAM.1 [Eeceived October 24, 1893.] (Plates LXI. & LXII.) The Spiders of the famdy Attidae described in the following paper were collected on the Island of St. Vincent by Mr. Herbert H. Smith, the collector sent out by Mr. F. DuCane Godman to assist the Committee for the Exploration of the Fauna and Flora of the West Indian Islands, appointed by the British Association and by the Royal Society. The Committee has agreed to place a full series of these Spiders in the British Museum. We had expected to have made this collection the basis of a discussion of the relations of the Spiders of the West Indian Islands to those of the mainland, but the material in our hands is too scanty to warrant any important conclusions. W e hope, before long, to receive enough material to make the discussion desirable. In making the measurements we have used the metric system. SYNEMOSYNA SMITHI, sp. nov. (Plate LXI. figs. 1-1 b.) 3 and 2 • Length 4-2. Length of cephalothorax 1-8; width of cephalothorax 9. 1 Communicated by D. SHARP, F.E.S., F.Z.S., on behalf of the Committee for Investigating the Flora and Fauna of the West Indian Islands. |
