1898.] THE SECEETABY OK THE BEAVER-POND AT LEONARDSLEA. 201 



118. Pabkara detecta Trim. 

 Mazoe District, 4th January, 1895. 



119. Baeacus inobnatus Trim. 



Karkloof, 30th January and 8th February, 1897. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XX. 



Fig. 1. Neocmnyra extensa, S , p. 188. 

 2. Catochrysops pleheia, (S , p. 192. 

 3, 4. Catochrysops ariadne, (?$)?• 193. 



5. Spindasis masilikazi, (J , p. 195. 



6. Spindasis ella, cJ , var., p. 195. 



7. EJagrisjamesoni, J (wet form), p. 199. 



March 15, 1898. 

 Dr. Albert Gunther, F.E.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of February 1898 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of February 1898 were 61 in number. Of these 12 were 

 acquired by presentation, 14 by purchase, 3 were born in the 

 Gardens, 11 were received by exchange, and 21 on deposit. The 

 total number of departures during the same period, by death 

 and removals, was 107. 



The Secretary exhibited some photographs of the Beaver-pond 

 at Leonardslea, Horsham, and read the following notes from Sir 

 Edmund Loder, Bart., F.Z.S., on the subject : — 



" I sent particulars of my Beavers to Mr. C. J. Cornish, who 

 has written articles about the Beavers in ' Country Life ' and in 

 his new book ' Nights with an old Gunner '\ 



" About eight years ago I imported four Beavers from America, 

 and turned them into an enclosure at the bottom of a valley with a 

 small stream running through it. There was at that time a good 

 deal of brushwood and some larger trees, but all these were very 

 soon cut down except a few which I protected with iron. 



" It is difficult to know how many young ones were born. One 

 certainly grew up and another was found dead, killed by the 

 others. 



1 ' Nights with an old Gunner and other Studies of Wild Life.' By C. J. 

 Cornish. London, 1897, p. 294. 



