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touching. The posterior are elongated and quite twice the size of 

 the anterior pair. They thus exactly match the spermiducal glands. 

 On a dissection no diverticula are visible ; but in longitudinal 

 sections it is plain that a considerable number of tubular diverticula 

 open into the duct part of the spermatheca -which are enclosed 

 within the same sheath. The arrangement in fact is very like 

 that of Benhamia beddardi as figured by Horst ', only that the 

 region occupied by the diverticula is relatively shorter. 



From the account of the anatomy given above, the following 

 definition of the species has been compiled : — 



Benhamia budgetti, n. sp. 



Length 116 mm. x5 or 6 mm. diameter. Clitellum xiii.-xx. 

 Genital papillae paired on xx., unpaired and median on xxi., xxii. 

 Dorsal pores present. Furrows uniting spermiducal gland-pores 

 convex outwards, passing to outside of ventral setae of xviii. (which 

 are absent ?). Gizzards in v. and vi. ; calciferous glands in xiv.- 

 xvi.; large intestine begins in xxi., and has a typhlosole for part of 

 its course. Spermathecee globular, with short duct and no external 

 diverticulum ; anterior pair smaller. Spermiducal glands not long, 

 stout and coiled ; posterior pair shorter. Penial setae small, with 

 spinelets on anterior fourth. 



Hab. McCarthy Island, Gambia. 



June 19, 1900. 

 Prof. G. B. Howes, LL.D., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of May 1900 : — 



The registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the 

 month of May 1900 were 330 in number. Of these 38 were 

 acquired by presentation and 56 by purchase, 16 were born in 

 the Gardens, and 220 were received on deposit. The total number 

 of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 

 151. 



Among the additions attention may be specially called to : — 



1. A young female Cape Hunting-dog (Lycaon pictiis), obtained 

 by purchase on May 4th. This is a rather rare and delicate canine 

 animal, the present specimen of which seems likely to do well. 



2. An Allen's Porphyrio (Hydrornia alleni), captured at sea and 

 presented by Capt. J.C.Eobinson, of the mail steam-ship 'Kildonan 

 Castle,' on May 15th, who kindly sends me the following note on 

 the subject : — 



" On the 1st of May, when the ship was in 8° South latitude and 



1 Notes Leyd. Mus. xvii. pi. i. fig. 6. 



