No. 49. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



November 26tli, 1907. 

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



The Secretary exhibited an oil-painting by Mr. W. Walls, 

 R.S.A., of a young female Gorilla recently living in the Society's 

 Gardens. 



The Secretary presented, on behalf of the Rev. 0. Pickard- 

 Cambridge, M.A., F.R.S., G.M.Z.S., a communication entitled 

 " On some ISTew a,nd Little-known Araneidea." Eleven species 

 were noted or described and figured : one from Lagos, Portugal ; 

 three from Cape Colony, S. Africa ; one from Mashonaland ; five 

 from the Canaries ; and one from Old Calabar. Seven species 

 were described as new to science. Pive of the Spidei'S had been 

 accidentally imported to England in packages of bananas. 



A paper was read from Mr. M. Jacoby, F.E.S., desci-ibing 

 new species of Beetles of the Cryptocephaline division of the 

 family Ghrysomelidce^ from ti'opical South America. 



The Secretary communicated a paper by Mr. E. S. Russell, 

 M.A., the object of which was to correlate certain modifications 

 of the Limpet-shell [Patella vulgata) with definite environmental 

 conditions. The method adopted by the author had been to 

 measure the dimensions of a large number of shells from one 

 environment and to compare them with similar measui'ements of 



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