No. 47. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDO^\ 



June 18th, 1907. 



G. A. BoulejSTGER, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair 



The Secretary read a Repoit on the additions that had bef-P- 

 made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of May 

 1907. 



Mr, H. 0. Bax-Ironside, H.B.M. Minister to Yenezuela, 

 exhibited a series of eighteen models of Venezuelan animals. 

 The models had been made from I'ving specimens by a native 

 Indian, the material employed being Ballata gum. 



Mr, C, J, Gahan exhibited the female of a luminous Beetle of 

 a species of Phengodes from Manaos, Brazil. 



Mr. C. L. BouLBNGER exhibited and made remarks on a new 

 Hydromedusan of v/hich examples of both pol3^p and medusa 

 stages were obtained by Dr. Cunnington and himself during their 

 recent exploration of the lake Birket Gurun in the Fayum, 



The medusa, for which Mr. Boulenger proposed the name 

 Moerisia lyonsi, g. & sp. n., was an Anthomedusan which 

 appeared closely related to Sarsia. 



The hydroid was gymnoblastic and resembled Cordylophora, 

 differing, however, from that genus in possessing a more complex 

 mode of branching, and in the situation of the gonophores, which 

 were on the polyps themselves. 



Mr. R, I. PocooK exhibited two young examples of the Common 

 Sqviirrel which had undergone a peculiar change in colour. 



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