1877.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. HO.T 



whorl large and inflated, impressed on the upper part with a broad 

 concentric groove, the lower edge of which is bordered by a blunt 

 prominent rib or keel just above the periphery, and with an obtuse 

 tumid carina below surrounding the umbilicus, which is some- 

 what small, contracted, and uon- perspective ; aperture oblique, qua- 

 drately ovate, white or very pale ash-colour within ; outer lip 

 thickened, expanded and sharply reflexed, somewhat angularly di- 

 lated and obsoletely toothed in the middle, white ; margins approxi- 

 mating, joined by a moderate callus. 



Average diam. maj. I in. 6 lines, min. 1 in. 2 lines, alt. 9 lines. 



Hub. Madagascar. 



Var. a. Shell entirely white, with a pale olive-yellow ej)idermis. 



Var. b. Shell pale green, with three brown bands, and freckled 

 with light diaphanous markings. 



Var. c. Shell pale yellowish olive, irregularly painted with longi- 

 tudinal brown flames, and with the typical band round the umbilicus. 



The specimens figured are selected from a fine series of Madagas- 

 car shells in the collection of Sir David Barclay, Bart. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXXX. 



Figs. 1, 2. Helix sepulchrali!^, Fer., p. 803. 



3. subsejmlchralis, Orosse, p. 804. 



4, 5. hova, Arigas, p. 804. 



6-11. sakalam, Angus, p. 805. 



December 4, 18/7. 

 Prof. A. Newton, F.R.S., in the Chair. 



The following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 during the month of November 1877 was read by the Secretary : — 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of November 1877 was 75, of which 3 were 

 by birth, 34 by presentation, 26 by purchase, 3 by exchange, and 9 

 were received on deposit. The total number of departures during 

 the same period, by death and removals, was 99. 



The most noticeable additions during the month were : — 



1. A three-banded Armadillo {Tolypeutes tricinctus), from Brazil, 

 purchased November 3rd. Of this scarce form of Armadillo, re- 

 rnarkable for its possession of the faculty of rolling itself up into a 

 ball, we have had no living example since 186.5. 



2. A young example of Brown Pelican of the West Indies (Pe- 

 lecanus fuscus), purchased Nov. 16th. This Pelican is seldom met 

 with in captivity ; and we have had no examples of it in our collec- 

 tion since we lost those described and figured in the Society's ' Pro- 

 ceedings,' 1868, p. 268, pi. XXV. 



3. A. Brown Tree-Kangaroo {Dendrolugus inustus), purchased 

 November 19th. Of this rai'e animal we have received no specimen 

 since 1865. The present example was obtained from M. Leon 



