1910.] ON THE XOimi QUEEXSLAND GREEX TREE-AXTS, 669 



The left tiirso-inetatarsus and foot, moreovei', are dii'ected inward 

 toward the body of the autosite, presenting a three-quarter 

 plantar aspect when the specimen is viewed from tl)e front. 



In the central limb, as previously stated, the tarso-meta- 

 tarsus is represented merely as a spike-like projection 6 mm. in 

 length. 



The subject of the present paper is interesting mainly in the 

 fact that the supernumerary paired limbs are again partially 

 dichomotised by the presence, in articulation with the confluent 

 femur, of a third tibia and tarso-metatarsus, the latter imperfectly 

 formed and stunted. 



For assistance in the preparation of this paper my thanks are 

 due to Mr. John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.Z.S., and Mr. E. Leonard 

 Gill, M.Sc. 



May 3, 1910. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Seci'etary exhibited a photograph of a Gii-afFe, kindly lent 

 him by Mr. Carl Hagenbeck. The animal was an adult female 

 3"30 metres in height, obtained in Gallaland, East Africa, and 

 was in the possession of Mr. Hagenbeck. It displayed a 

 reticulate coloration, in which the lighter areas were reduced to 

 narrow lines, clearly on the neck and body, but the hind-quarters 

 were blotched, while the spotting came lower down on the legs 

 than in the typical Giraffa reticulata. It possibly represented a 

 type intermediate between G. reticulata and G. camelopardalis^ 

 but it was to be remembered that the specimen was a lemale, and 

 that females did not exhibit the typical coloration so conspicuously 

 as old males. 



Mr. E. E. Austen, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of a rare Fly 

 {CephenoniAjia ulrichii Brauer) from East Prussia, parasitic in the 

 larval stage in the thi'oat of the Elk {Alces machlis Ogilby), and 

 remarked on its habits and those of allied species. This specimen 

 had been recently acquired by the Hon. Charles Rothschild and 

 presented by him to the British Museum. 



Dr. R. A. O'Brien, introduced by Prof. E. A. Minchin, M.A., 

 F.Z.S., exhibited a series of lantern-slides illustrating the habits 

 of the Korth Queensland Green Tree- Ant {Oecophylla srnarag- 

 dina ?). The Green Tree- Ant is found in the open forest 



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