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PROCEEDINGS 



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SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS 



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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 15, 1884. 

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



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of Decemher 1883 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of December was 81, of which 58 were by 

 presentation, 10 by purchase, and 13 were received on deposit. 

 The total number of departures during the same period, by death 

 and removals, was 114. 



The Secretary read a communication from Mr. J. C. O'Halloran, 

 Chief Commissioner and Police Magistrate for Rodriguez, stating that 

 he had sent for the Society a specimen of a large Lizard said to be 

 found only in that Island and to be very rare there. The following 

 note upon the specimen in question from Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.Z.S., 

 was also read : — 



" The specimen you kindly send to me belongs to an undescribed 

 species of the genus Phelsuma, a small group of diurnal Geckos 

 confined to Madagascar, the Seychelles, Comoro, Mascarene, and 

 Andaman Islands, and of which I distinguish 7 or 8 species. The 

 Rodriguez form was previously known to me from a single specimen, 

 about the size of the one you now submit to me, presented by Mr. E. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1884, No. I. 1 



