82 ON THE PORES IN CHLAMYDOSAURUS KINGII. [May 17, 



May 17, 1904. 



Howard Saunders, Esq., F.L.S,, Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of April 1904 : — 



The number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 during the month of April was 111, of which 46 were by 

 presentation and 20 by purchase, 20 were born in the Gardens, 

 and 25 were received on deposit. The number of depai-tures 

 during the same period, by death and removals, was 96. 



Amongst the additions attention may be called to : — 



1. A fine specimen of the Boatbill {Ganchroma cocMearia), 

 purchased on April 1st. 



2. Two Cheetahs [Cyncelurtis jitbatus), from the Soudan, 

 presented by Col. B. Mahon, C.B., F.Z.S., on April 18th. 



3. Two Keas {Nestor notabilis), presented by Mr. T. E. Doune, 

 on April 26th. 



Dr. W. T. Caiman, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of a blind 

 crustacean [Munidopsis polymorpha), from a subterranean lake in 

 the Island of Lanzarote, Canaries, collected by Mr. Fairfax 

 Prevost. The species was described in 1892 by Dr. Koelbel, of 

 Vienna, from specimens collected by Prof. Simony, but appears 

 to have been overlooked by recent writers on the group to which 

 it belongs. The lake in which it is found is salt and communicates 

 with the sea, the water rising and falling with the tide. All the 

 other species of the genus, over 100 in number, are inhabitants 

 of the deep sea, none being recorded fi-om a depth of less than 

 about 100 fathoms. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.E..S., exhibited the body of an example 

 of the Lizard Chlamydosaurtis kivgii which had died in the 

 Menagerie some years ago, and made the following remarks upon 

 the absence of femoral pores : — 



Mr. Boulenger has pointed out (Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus.) that 

 while the Australian Agamidse with one exception possess femoral 

 pores, these structures, are as a I'ule, wanting in that family. 

 Among those in which the femoral pores are described, or at 

 least asserted to be present and in definite numbers, is the genus 

 Ghlamydoscairus. The original describer of the genus, and of the 

 species, Dr. Gray (in King's ' Survey of Australia,' vol. ii. p. 424 

 et seq.), however, observed that it was " destitute of femoral pores." 

 Dumeril and Bibron (' Erpetologie generale,' p. 440) make use of 

 the phrase " Des pores femoraux " as part of their definition of 

 the genus. As this absolute contradiction occurs, I have thought 

 it worth while to exhibit to the Society a male example in which 

 there are certainly no femoral pores fully comjparable to those of 



