No. 141. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 



March 9th, 1915. 



R. H. Burne, Esq., M.A., Vice-President, 



in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



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

 Menagerie during the month of February 1915. 



Dr. R. Broom, M.D., C.M.Z.S., exhibited a skull of Chryso- 

 chloris asiatica with four upper molars on each side. On 

 November 24th, 1914, Dr. Broom exhibited a skull of Chryso- 

 chloris hottentota with only one molar on each side above. A 

 few species of Chrysochloris have normally two molars, and used 

 to be placed in the genus Aniblysomus. But Chrysochloris 

 namaquensis has one-third of the known specimens with two 

 molars, one-third with three molars, and the rest with two 

 molars on one side and three on the other. Most species of 

 Chrysochloris have three molars. The specimen exhibited shows 

 that even the type species is variable. 



Mr. R. I. Pocock, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S., Curator of Mammals, 

 read a paper upon the feet, perfume-glands, and other external 

 characters of the "Viverrinse, using this term in a restricted sense 

 for the typical Civets and Genets referred hitherto to the three 

 genera Viverra, Viverricula, and Genetta. He pointed out, 

 however, that a new generic term must be introduced for the 

 African Civet (V. civelta) which differs from the Oriental species 

 (F. zibetha), the type of the genus Viverra, in the presence of a 



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