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Show 1900.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 659 touching. Tbe posterior are elongated and quite twice the size of the anterior pair. They thus exactly match the spermiducal glands. O n a dissection no diverticula are visible ; but in longitudinal sections it is plain that a considerable number of tubular diverticula open into the duct part of the spermatheca which are enclosed within the same sheath. The arrangement in fact is very like that of Benhamia beddardi as figured by Horstl, only that the region occupied by the diverticula is relatively shorter. From the account of the anatomy given above, the following definition of the species has been compiled :- BENHAMIA BUDGETTI, n. sp. Length 116 m m . x 5 or 6 m m . diameter. Clitellum xhi.-xx. Genital papillae paired on xx., unpaired and median on xxi., xxii. Dorsal pores present. Furrows uniting spermiducal gland-pores convex outwards, passing to outside of ventral setae of xviii. (which are absent ?). Gizzards iu v. and vi.; calciferous glands in Xiv.- xvi.; large intestine begins in xxi., and has a typhlosole for part of its course. Spermathecae globular, with short duct and no external diverticulum ; anterior pair smaller. Spermiducal glands not long, stout and coiled ; posterior pair shorter. Penial setae small, with spinelets on anterior fourth. Hab. McCarthy Island, Gambia. June 19, 1900. Prof. G. B. HOWES, LL.D., F.B.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of M a y 1900:- The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of M a y 1900 were 330 in number. Of these 38 were acquired by presentation and 56 by purchase, 16 were born in the Gardens, and 220 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 151. Among the additions attention may be specially called to :- 1. A young female Cape Hunting-dog (Lycaon pictus), obtained by purchase on M a y 4th. This is a rather rare and delicate canine animal, the present specimen of which seems likely to do well. 2. A n Allen's Porphyrio (Hydrornia alleni), captured at sea and presented by Capt. J.C. Bobinson, of the mail steam-ship 'Kildonan Castle,' on M a y 15th, who kindly sends m e the following note on the subject:- " O n the 1st of May, when the ship was in 8° South latitude and 1 Notes Leyd. Mus. xvii. pi. i. fig. 6. |