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place in July, and in August the female fabricates a slender coni- 

 cal tube of silk of a veiy slight texture, measm-ing from one and 

 a half to two and a half inches in length, and about half an inch 

 in diameter at its lower extremity ; it is closed above, open below, 

 thickly covered externally with particles of indurated earth, small 

 stones, and withered leaves and flowers, which are incorporated 

 with it, and is suspended perpendicularly in the snare by lines at- 

 tached to its sides and apex. In the upper part of this singular 

 domicile the female constructs several globular cocoons of yellow- 

 ish white silk of a slight texture, having a mean diameter of 

 about ith of an inch, in each of which she deposits from twenty 

 to sixty small spherical eggs of a pale yellowish white colour, not 

 agglutinated together. The young, after quitting the cocoons, 

 remain a long time with the female and are provided by her with 

 food, which consists chiefly of ants. 



It would appear that ^1. Walckenaer, prior to the publication 

 of the second volume of his ' Hist. Nat. des Insect. Apt.,' was 

 not cognisant of my researches in this department of zoology', as 

 in various instances he has adopted the names given by other 

 arachnologists to spidei-s which I had prenously described, with- 

 out any reference to those assigned to them by me. I may refer 

 to Theridion riparium as presenting a case in point. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



June 25, 1850.— ATm. Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



1. Catalogue of thk Mammalia of Ceylon. Collected 

 AND observed BY E. F. Kelaart, M.D., F.L.S. 



[Having already published a list of the Mammalia of the Island in 

 our Number for May 1851, we merely give the descriptions of the 

 new species indicated by the author.— Ed. Ann. Nat. Hist.^ 



GOLL'NDA NEWERA. 



Fur soft, yellowish brown varied with black ; cliin and beneath 

 yellowish grey ; under-fur dark lead-colour ; soft long hairs on the 

 upper parts of the head and body, with longer black-tipped hairs 

 ha^-ing a subtermiual yellowish band ; fiir of belly dark lead-colour 

 tipped Avith yellowish grey ; ears large, hairy on both sides, of a light 

 rust)' or ashy colour ; whiskers slender, moderately long, some greyish, 

 others blackish ; tail shorter than the body, tapering to a point, scaly ; 

 upper surface of a black colour and covered with short semi-adpressed 

 black hair ; lower surface yellow or ashy colour, covered ^-itli short 

 hair of the same yellow colour ; icei having dark brown claws, pur- 

 pUsh ; four toes to the fore-feet, with a clawless rudimentary thumb ; 

 five hind-toes, three middle subequal ; soles nearly bald, blackish ; 

 palma studded with four small tubercles ; planta with six tubercles, 

 the two foremost considerablv larger ; incisors vellow, superior ones 



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