1899.] 



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sumed a white mouse each time it fed. It improved rapidly, and 

 after the first three weeks it fed only once a week, and it will now 

 go for a fortnight Avithout feeding. When a mouse is put in the 

 Case the Centipede rears up upon its hinder legs and seizes the 

 mouse immediately, behind the head, with its strong mandibles 

 and the anterior five or six pair of legs. The mouse soon dies, no 

 doubt from the Centipede's poisonous bite. 



Mr. E. E. Holding exhibited and made remarks upon the horns 

 of a Muntjac from Singapore^ which greatly exceeded in size and 

 weight those of the Indian Muntjac {Cervulus munfjac), the only 

 species with which they could be compared. The horns exhibited 

 (B), though distinctly cervuliue in their general character, indicated 

 considerable difference from the normal form of Muntjac horns, 

 being 9 inches in length, the brow-tine 4| inches long, girth of 



A. Indian Muntjac. 



B. Specimen exhibited. 



■ pedicle ' 



3| inches,- 



-the Indian Muntjac horns seldom exceeding 



6| inches, the brow-tine not more than li inch. The thickness 

 and shortness of the pedicle, the Avidth across the facial ridge, 

 with other osteological characters, seemed to indicate an animal 

 much larger, if not entirely distinct from the Indian species Avith 

 which it Avas compared. 



The following papers were read :- 



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