No. 204. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



April 27th, 1920. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a Report on the Additions to the Society's 

 Menagerie during the month of March 1920. 



Mr. Arthur Loveridge exhibited and made remarks on a 

 collection of Snakes which he had obtained in East Africa dur^'ng 

 the years 1915-1919. 



Miss L. E. Cheesman, F.E.S., exhibited and described a series 

 of lantern-slides illustrating the iife-histoiy and habits of the 

 Ichneumon-fly, Rhyssa persuasoria. 



Dr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.R.S., exhibited and made 

 remarks on a series of photographs, taken by Sir H. A, Byatt,. 

 K.O.M.G., in German East Africa, of the rare Abbot's Duiker 

 {Cephalophus spadix). 



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