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Show 454 ox THE DENTITION OF A ROCK-WALLABY. [Apr. 19, TELEGONUS ANAUSIS. T. anausis G. 6c S. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 519. Recorded by Messrs. Godman and Salvin in 1884 as T. anaphu* Cram. EANTIS PAPINIANUS. Hesperia papinianus Poey, Cent. Lep. Cuba, 1833. Several examples. PRENES NERO. Hesperia nero Fabr. Syst, Ent. Suppl. p. 433. Recorded by Messrs. Godman and Salvin as Pamphila ocola Edw. PRENES ARES. Hesperia ares Feld. Yerh. zool.-bot* Ges. Wien, 1862, p. 477. Several specimens. April 19, 1904. Dr. HENRY WOODWARD, F.R.S., Yice-President, in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March 1904:- The number of registered additions to -the Society's Menagerie during the month of March was 133, of which 48 were by presentation, 3 by birth, 17 by purchase, and 65 were received on deposit. The number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 134. Amongst the additions attention may be called to :- 1. A young female Snow-Leopard (Felis uncia), from the Pamirs, presented by Capt. Mackintosh on March 9th. 2. Two young female Cheetahs (Gyncelurus jubatus), from Somaliland, presented by Capt. Barnard on March 2nd. 3. Adult male and female examples of the Nisnas Monkey (Cercojnthecus ptyrrhonotus), from Uganda, presented by Mr. C. R. Hall on March 4th. 4. A Potto (Perodicticus potto) and two North-African Crowned Cranes (Balearica 2^avoninet), from Lagos, presented by Dr. Macfarlane on March 28th. Mr. Oldfield Thomas exhibited some skulls of a small North Australian Rock-Wallaby (Peradorcas concinna Gould), illustrating the recently discovered fact * that this animal, in common * Novitates Zoological, xi. p. 226 (1904). |
