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of the inferior deutal nerve and associated blood-vessels which are 

 normally found in this situation. 



The glands have not a smooth surface such as the figures given 

 would indicate, but are divided into well-defined lobules, which in 

 H. suspectitm converge and partly fuse as they pass upwards and 

 forwards from lower border to the anterior extremity. 



Behind the poison-glands are a few small mucous glands. 



When dissecting the fresh specimen of Heloderma under water, the 

 slightest pressure on the poison-gland caused a milky fluid to escape 

 from the gland-openings referred to above ; this fluid readily difl'used 

 itself in the water, whereas the mucus from the other glands hung 

 about as more transparent ropy clouds. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XI. 



Fig. 1. Dissection of the ventral surface of the head and neck of H. st/spectnm. 

 Q. Left poison-gland ; the right gland has been raised to show the 

 branches of the inferior dental nerve and blood-vessels. T. Left 

 lobe of thyroid gland. 



2. Inner surface of left poisou-gland of H. horridum. 



3. Diagrammatic section of lower jaw and poison-gland. J. Jaw ; 



Q-. Gland ; D. Its duct ; S. Skin. 



4. Left kidney of H. horridum. 



5. Left urogenital system of H. suspccfum. K. Kidney ; B. Bladder ; 



U. Ureter; T. Testis; V.D. Vas deferens; E. Eectura ; E.M. 

 Eeetal muscles ; 0. Cloaca; D.A.G-. Dorsal aoal gland ; P. Penis; 

 C.M.P. Constrictor muscle of penis ; E.M.P. Extractor muscle of 

 penis; 8. Skin. 



February 3, 1891. 

 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 January 1891 : — 



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

 gerie during the month of January was 7&, of which 62 were by 

 presentation, 4 by exchange, 4 by purchase, 1 by birth, and .5 were 

 received on deposit. The total number of departures during the same 

 period, by death and removals, was 7 1 . 



Amongst the additions special attention may be called to : — 



A Yellow-crowned Penguin {Eudyptes antipodum), from New 

 Zealand, presented by Sir Henry Peek, Bart., F.Z.S. 



This is a scarce species {cf. Buller, B. New Zealand, pi. xlvi. 

 p. 294), and we have never received a specimen of it before. 



Mr. Larkworthy, who procured this Penguin for Sir Henry Peek, 

 writes as follows concerning its capture : — " There is an Oyster Fishery 

 established at the Bluff Harbour, Southland, N. Z., and the operations 

 of the fishermen are carried out in the straits between the Middle 

 Island and Stewart's Island. This bird and others, six in all, were 

 captured by the crew of one of the oyster-boats, in one of the small 

 bays in Stewart's Island, and sent thence to Port Chalmers, Otago, 

 to wait for a steamer." 



