1893.] MB. p. L. SCIATEE ON CEECOPITHECUS ALBIGULAEIS. 691 



November 21, 1893. 



Sir W. H. Flowee, K.C.B., LL.D., F.E.S., President, in the 



Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of October : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of October were 121, of which 57 were by presentation, 27 

 by purchase, 3 by birth, and 31: were received on deposit. The 

 number of departures during the same period, by death and 

 removals, was 106. 



The most noticeable additions ditring the month were : — 



1. An example of the Groliath Beetle (Qoliathus druryi), one of 

 the largest of known Coleoptera, obtained near Accra, Grold Coast, 

 and presented Oct. 5th by F. W. Marshall, Esq. 



2. An adult female and a young of the Manatee {Manatus 

 americanus), captured in Manatee Bay, Jamaica, and most kindly 

 sent home for the Society's Collection by Sir Henry A. Blake, 

 K.C.M.G. Unfortunately they reached the Gardens in a very 

 exhausted condition, and died soon after their arrival. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited a mounted specimen of an African Monkey 

 {Cercopitheciis alhigularis) irom the Leyden Museum, and made 

 the following remarks : — 



Dr. Jentink has kindly sent to me from the Leyden Museum 

 for comparison a West- African example of Cercopithecus alhigularis, 

 which I now exhibit. It was obtained by Pel on the Gold 

 Coast, and therefore there can be no doubt as to its locality 

 In my paper on the Monkeys of this genus, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 251, 

 I commented upon the strange fact that this Monkey, which 

 we commonly receive from Mozambique and various ports in 

 East Africa, should also occur in West Africa, and suggested 

 that specimens from the two countries should be compared. I 

 have placed the present specimen side by side with the original 

 type of Sykes (described P. Z. S. 1831, p. 106), now in the 

 British Museum, and must admit that I can find no grounds for 

 specific distinction. Sykes's specimen was originally living in the 

 Society's Gardens, and its locaUty (given by Sykes as Mada- 

 gascar) is absolutely uncertain ; but of two East-African specimens 

 obtained on the Eufiji Eiver opposite Zanzibar, 8° S. lat., by Capt. 

 Wharton, E.N., P.E.S., and now in the British Museum, one 

 agrees very weU with the present specimen, though, as a general 

 rule, East-African specimens (of which we have two now living 

 in the Gardens) have a strong rufous tinge round the anus under 

 the tail, which is not apparent in the present example. On the 

 whole, however, I am not at present prepared to say that East 

 and West African specimens of this Monkey can be properly 

 distinguished. 



