94 MR. A. Thomson's report on the tnsect-house. [Mar. 4, 



was a piece of the sheerest luck ; the foreigners at Ichang have never 

 even succeeded in shooting one, though a good many trials have been 

 made by them, and the precipices on which the Antelopes occur are 

 not more than 5 or 6 miles from Ichang \ 



March 4, 1890. 

 Prof. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of February 1890 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of February was 16, of which 7 were ac- 

 quired by presentation, 4 by birth, 1 by exchange, 1 by purchase, 

 and 3 were received on deposit. The total number of departures 

 during the same period, by death and removals, was 72. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard exhibited and made remarks on some living 

 specimens of Oriental Earthworms of the genus Perichceta (P. indica) 

 found in a greenhouse in Scotland, and supposed to have been in- 

 troduced from India. 



Mr. Arthur Thomson, the Society's Head Keeper, exhibited a 

 series of Insects reared in the Insect-house in the Society's Gardens 

 during the past year, and read the following Report on the subject : — ■ 



Report on the Insect-house for 1889. 



Examples of the following species of Insects have been exhibited 

 in the Insect-house during the past season : — 



SWc-produciny Bombyces and their Allies. 



Indian. 



Attacus atlas. Anthercea mylitta. 



pernyi. Actias selene. 



cynthia, Cricula trifenestrata. 



American. 

 Samia cecropia. Telea promethea, 

 Telea polyphemus. Actias luna. 

 angulifera. Hypochera io, 



1 [A skin and skull of this animal have been recently received by the British 

 Museum from our Corresponding Member Mr. P. H. S. Montgomery. It is ob- 

 viously closely allied to Nemorkadus cinereiis, Milne-Edwiirds (Recherches s. 1. 

 Manim., Atlas, pi. 70), andiV. swinkoii. Gray (P. Z. S. 1802, p. 263), pi. 35, but 

 may be different, and if so should be called Semorhcedus hcnryanus. I caimot, 

 however, ascertain whether Pere Heude's name has been actually published or 

 not.— P. L. S.] 



