1877.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 159 
tomentosis, femoribus antennarumque scapo subtiliter granu- 
latis. 
Long. 11 lin. 
One example. 
Fam. Cassip1p&. 
ASPIDOMORPHA. sp. 
One specimen. 
Fam. CoccinELLID&, 
EpiLacHna, sp. 
Two specimens. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Puatr XXIV. 
. Batocera nebulosa, p. 158. 
Pseudozena alternata, p. 152. 
. Pachyrhynchus biplagiatus, p. 154. 
. Dipelicus nasutus, p. 1538. 
. Oryctoderus coronatus, p. 153. 
Fig. 
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PLATE XXV. 
. Batocera browni, p. 157. 
. Eupholus browni, p. 155. 
. Pachyrhynchus verrucatus, p. 154. 
. Eezemotes guttulata, p. 158. 
Ectocemus ruficauda, p. 156. 
Fig. 
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March 6, 1877. 
Dr. E. Hamilton, V.P., in the Chair. 
The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 
Society’s Menagerie during the month of February, 1877. 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of February was 57, of which 30 were ac- 
quired by presentation, 18 by purchase, 2 were bred in the Gardens, 
and 7 were received on deposit. The total number of departures 
during the same period, by death and removals was 66. 
The most noticeable additions during the month of February were 
as follows :— 
1. A Mexican Eared Owl (Asio mexicanus'), purchased of a 
* In his new Catalogue of Owls (Cat. Birds, ii. p. 231) Mr. Sharpe has 
transferred the term americanus, which Mr. Salvin and I, following Burmeister, 
have used for the present species, to the American form of Asio otus, usually 
called wélsontanus, and has, moreover, given “Stephens” as the authority for 
the name. But the name americanus was made by Gmelin (1766), not by 
Stephens, and was founded on Brisson’s Asio americanus, which, so far as I ean 
decide, is much more likely to have been intended for the preseuit bird than for 
A. wilsonianus. Whether “ Strix mexicana, Gm.,” founded ultimately on the 
