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DR. G. BENNETT ON DENDROLAGUS LUMHOLTZI. [Feb. 3, 



C.M.Z.S., and had been obtained af Bir, a small place on the 

 Mekrau coast of Beloochistan. Mr. Ffinch staled that he was 



Julodis ffinchi. 



endeaTOuring to procure more specimens, 

 insects had been met with in that locality. 



but that few of those 



The Secretary read the following extracts from a letter addressed 

 to him by Dr. George Bennett, F.Z.S., dated Sydney, December 23, 



1884:— 



"I observe in the Society's 'Proceedings' (1884, p. 387), just 

 received, a new Tree-Kangaroo {Dendrolagus lumholtzi) described 

 from Northern Queensland. This has confirmed what I had long 

 suspected, that there was one to be found there. You may recollect 

 that in the 'Proceedings' for 1873 (p. 518), I mentioned the supposed 

 existence of a species of Tree-Kangaroo {DendroJagiis) in Northern 

 Queensland, some such animal being apparently well known to the 

 blacks of Cardwell, who report that it is a Kangaroo that climbs 

 trees and leaves deep scratches on the bark. I heard of such an 

 animal from many other sources when in Queensland, and made 



