692 MESSRS. G. W. AJfD B. Gf. PEOKHAM ON [Nov. 21, 



An extract was read, from a letter addressed to the Secretary 

 by Mr. J. S. Mackay, dated Dunbar House, Kullu, Punjaub, 10th 

 June, 1893, relating to a young Snow-Leopard, then about one 

 year old, which had been sent to Mrs. Mackay as a present from 

 Thakur Debi Chaud, of Gundla, in Lahaul, when quite small. 

 Mr. Mackay wrote : — " The animal is well over six feet now. He 

 is kept tied to a thin long cord during the day on the tennis- 

 court in the shade, where he gambols and plays with the dogs. 

 At night he is let loose inside the house and sleeps on my wife's 

 bed. I have never known or heard of anyone exercising such a 

 peculiar fascination over any animal as my wife does over this 

 Snow-Leopard. He follows her about like a dog, and if he misses 

 her a moment he simply screams for her." 



Several photographs representing this animal were exhibited. 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, E.Z.S,, exhibited some hybrid Pheasants 

 supposed to be crosses between the Common Pheasant (Phasianus 

 colchicus) and the Gold Pheasant (Thaumalea picta), and between 

 the first-named bird and the Silver Pheasant {Nycthemerus 

 argentatus). 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On the Spiders of the Family Attidce of the Island of 

 St. Vincent. By G. W. and E. G. Peckham.' 



[Eeceived October 24, 1893.] 

 (Plates LXI. & LXn.) 



The Spiders of the family Attidse described in the following 

 paper were collected on the Island of St. Vincent by Mr. Herbert 

 H. Smith, the collector sent out by Mr. P. DuCane Godman to 

 assist the Committee for the Exploration of the Fauna and Flora 

 of the West Indian Islands, appointed by the British Association 

 and by the Royal Society, 



The Committee has agreed to place a full series of these Spiders 

 in the British Museum. 



We had expected to have made this collection the basis of a dis- 

 cussion of the relations of the Spiders of the West Indian Islands 

 to those of the mainland, but the material in oiu* hands is too 

 scanty to warrant any important conclusions. We hope, before 

 long, to receive enough material to make the discussion desirable. 



In making the measurements we have used the metric system. 



Synemostna smithi, sp. nov. (Plate LXI. figs. 1-1 6.) 



cJ and ? . Length 4-2. Length of cephalothorax 1*8 ; width 

 of cephalothorax 9. 



1 Communioated by D. Sharp, P.E.S., F.Z.S., on behalf of the Oommittee for 

 luvestigating the Flora and Fauna of the West Indian Islands. 



