No. 84. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



May 3rd, 1910. 

 Dr. A. SMixn Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, in tlio Cliair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



Tlie Secretary; exhibited a photograph of a Giraffe, kindly lent 

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

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

 was in the posse^ssion 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, whilst the spotting came lower down on the legs 

 than in the typical Gwaffa reticulata. It possibly represented a 

 type intermediate between G. reticulata and Q, camelojKirdcdis, 

 but it was to be i-emembered that the specimen was a female, and 

 that females did not exhibit the coloration so conspicuously as 

 old males. 



Mr. E. E. Austen, F.Z.S., exhibited a specimen of a i-are Fly 

 {Ce'phenomyia ulrichii Brauer) from East Prussia, }3a,rasitic in the 

 larval stage in the throat of the Elk (Alces inacJdis Ogilby), and 

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

 had been recently acquired by the Hon. Charles Rothschild ami 

 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 ISToi-th Queensland Green Tree-Ant (OecoiiJiylla sniaray- 

 dina ?), and described the method of nest-building and bridge- 

 forming followed by these insects. 



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