No. 238. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDmGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



March 20th, 1923. 



Prof. E, W. MacBride, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair, 



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

 Menagerie dui-ing tho month of J^'ebraary 1923. 



Mr, F. Martin Duxcaj^, F.KM.S., F.Z.S., exhibited, and 

 made remarks upon, a specimen and photographs of a Caterpillar 

 from New Zealand infected with the Eutomogenous fungus 

 Cordyceps robertii Hookei'. 



Mr. M, A. C. HiNTOJf, F,Z.S., exhibited, and made remarks 

 upon, the skin of a Lioness. 



Dr. Philippa C. Esdailk, F.Z.S., gave a fxsiimi of Mr. Sushil 

 Ch. Sarkar's paper on " A Comparative Study of the Buccal 

 Glands aud Teeth of Opisthoglyph Snakes, and a Discussion on 

 the Evolution of the Order from Aglypha," 



A paper " On the Mammals obtained in Darfur by the Lynes- 

 Lowe Expedition" by Mi-. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., F.Z S., and 

 Mr. M. A. 0. HiiVTON, F.Z.S., was communicated, by Mr. Hinton. 



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