924 MR. H. H, BBINDLEY ON EEPEODUCED [DeC. 13, 



December 13, 1898. 

 Prof. G. B. Howes, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

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



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

 gerie during the month of November was 66, of which 23 were by 

 presentation, 14 by birth, 10 by purchase, and 19 were received on 

 deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, 

 by death and removals, was 106. 



The following extract was read from a letter from Mr. Stanley 

 S. Flower, F.Z.S. (dated Gizeh, Egypt, Oct. 27, 1898), in reference 

 to the locality of the Siamang (Hylohates svndactyhis) which he 

 had presented to the Society on the 17th of October. 



" This Siamang was caught in Negri Sembilan, a Malay state (or 

 rather a federation of little kingdoms) which lies north of the 

 settlement of Malacca, and south of the important Malay state of 

 Selangor ; it is bounded on the east by Pahang, and cut off from 

 the sea to the west by a little state called Sungei Ujong. In the 

 Malay Peninsula the Siamang seems to be very local ; in Perak it 

 is found south of the Perak Eiver, but not apparently anywhere 

 north of it. There are stuffed Siamangs in the Taipang Museum, 

 but all were brought from Kinta in the south. The Siamang 

 certainly does not occur in either Penang or Singapore ; but speci- 

 mens are sometimes brought to Singapore from Sumatra, which is 

 the only other place that I have heard of where they are found 

 wild." 



Dr. Henry Woodward, P.R.S., exhibited and made remarks 

 upon a remarkably abnormal pair of antlers of the Red Deer. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On certain Characters of reproduced Appendages in 

 Arthropoda, particularly in the Blattidce. By H. H. 

 BkindleYj M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge \ 



[Received October 19, 1898.] 



(Plate LVIII.) 



In a previous communication (15) I have given an account 

 of some observations and experiments in connection with the 

 reproduction of the legs in the Blattidse, by which it seems 

 established that, in an individual which has not completed its 

 post-embryonic development, amputation or injury of a leg at 



^ Communicated by W. Bateson, F.Z.S, 



