No. 188. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



February 18th, 1919. 



A. Smith Woodward, Esq., LL.D., F.E..S., Vice-President, 

 ill the Cliair. 



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

 Menagerie in the month of January 1919. 



Mr. E.. I. PococK, F.R.S., F.Z.S., read a paper upon the 

 external characters of existing Chevrotains (TraguHna), and 

 showed that the Indian species, commonly cited as Tragidhis 

 meminna, differs in so many important characters from the 

 Malaysian species that it is necessary to sever it from them as 

 a distinct genus, for which the name Moschiola, used by Thomas 

 in a subgeneric sense, is available. In the absence of the inter- 

 ramal scent-gland, in the structure of the penis, and in the 

 retention of spots on the pelage, Moschiola is a more primitive 

 type than Tragulus, and resembles the still more primitive West 

 African genus Hyemoschus. 



Prof. H, Maxwell Lefroy, M.A., F.E.S., communicated a 

 paper by Mr. K. M. Smith, on " A Compai-ative Study of certain 



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