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Commissioner for New Zealand, that the Chamois presented by 

 the Emperor of Austria to New Zealand, and which had been 

 successfully taken to New Zealand by one of the Society's staif 

 in the beginning of 1907, had been seen in the locality in which 

 they were liberated, one of the females being accompanied by a 

 strong, healthy- looking kid. 



The Secretaet presented, on behalf of Dr. Knud Andersen, a 

 communication entitled " A Monograph of the Chiropteran Genera 

 Uroderma, Enchisthenes, and Artibeus." The work was based on 

 an examination of the material in the British and United States 

 National Museums, and contained a discussion of the homologies 

 of the teeth and molar cusps in Stenodermatous Bats, a full 

 description of the genera mentioned in the title, their species and 

 subspecies, with a discussion of their probable inter-relations, and 

 finally remarks on the bearing of the present geographical distri- 

 bution of the species and sub-species on a former connection of 

 the West Indian Islands with continental America. 



The Secretaey read a communication from Sir E. Ray Lan- 

 KESTER, K.C.B., F.R.S., F.Z.S., entitled " On certain Points in 

 the Structure of the Cervical Vertebrae of the Okapi and Giraife." 

 The paper dealt chiefly with the posterior cervical and anterior 

 dorsal vertebrse, the Author concluding that where the Okapi 

 differed in these respects from the Gii'afl'e, it resembled other and 

 particularly bovine' Artiodactyles. It also included a discussion 

 of the zygajDophysial articulations of the cervical and dorsal 

 vertebrae in the Giraffe, Okapi, and some other Mar "tals. 



Mr. H. R. Hogg, M.A., F.Z.S., gave an account of a paper on 

 " Some Australian Spiders," in which he gave further notes on 

 the type species of the genus Missidena, hitherto known only by 

 two specimens, a synopsis of the New Zealand genus Hexathele, 

 with description of two new species, and a description of two new 

 species of Dolomodes Lati-eille, from Pitt Island of the Chatham 

 Group, showing affinities with the only two species recorded from 

 New Zealand. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be held on Tuesday, the 28th April, 1908, at half-past Eight 

 o'clock P.M., when the following communications will be 

 made : — 



1. Mrs. E. W. Sexton. — On the Amphipod Genus TriscMzo- 

 stoma. 



2. C. L. BouLENGER, B.A., F.Z.S. — On the Breeding-Habits of 

 a Cichlid Fish i^Tiluqna nilotica). 



