No. 162. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



November 21st, 1916. 



Dr. S. F. Harmer, M.A., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



The Secretary read a Report on the Additions made to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of October. 



Mr. Alfred Ezra, F.Z.S., gave an account of a shooting 

 expedition in Central Asia, and illustrated his remarks with a 

 very fine series of lantern-slides. 



Dr. B. Petronievics and Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S. , 

 V.P.Z.S., read a paper on some new jarts of the pectoral and 

 pelvic arches lately discovered in the London specimen oi Archceo- 

 pteryx. The coracoid bone most closely I'e.vembles that of the 

 ratite birds and the Cretaceous Ilasperornis. The pubic bones- 

 are twice as long as the ischia and meet distally in an extended 

 symphysis, gradually tapering to a point, which seems to have 

 been tipped by a mass of imperfectly ossified cartilage. 



Mr. B. F. CuMMiNGS contributed a paper entitled " Studies on 

 the Anoplura and Mallophaga, being a Report upon a Collection 

 from the Mammals and Birds in the Society's Gardens — Part II." 

 This paper continues the account of the Mallophaga, and contains 

 descriptions of five new genera and two new species. Some 

 observations are made upon the spermatophores in a genus 

 parasitizing the Ibises, and emphasis is laid on the frequently 



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