No. 152. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



February 22iid, 1916. 



Dr, A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in tlie Chair. 



Tlie ]\[inutes of tlie last Scientific Meeting wei^e confii'med. 



The Rev. H. IST. Hutchinson, B.A., F.Z.S., exhibited a number 

 of drawings prepared by Mr. T. W. Parfitt of restorations of 

 various extinct animals. 



Mr. C. Tate Regan, M.A., F.Z.S., gave a lantern -exhibition 

 illustrating the breeding-habits of a Siamese Fighting-Fish 

 (Betia splendeits Regan) and the climbing-habits of a Oat-fish 

 (Arges marmoratus Regan) from the Andes of Colombia. 



Mr. R. I. PococK, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Curator of Mammals, gave 

 an exhibition, illustrated by lantern-slides, to show the structure 

 of the tympanic bulla in the Hysenas, and pointed out that both 

 Flower and Mivart were wrong in stating that tlie Hyaenas 

 differ from the Felidee, Viverridse, and Protelidse, in having the 

 cavity of the bulla undivided by a bony septum. The septum, 

 which those authors mistook for the roof of the bulla, runs from 

 the back of the bulla, where it abuts against the paroccipital, 

 obliquely upwards and forwards to the periotic, and divides the 

 cavity of the btilla into an anterior larger and a posterior smaller 

 chamber. The Hygenas thus agree with the other families of 

 ^luroid Carnivores in havino- the bulla diAaded. 



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