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benefit that such an exploration was to Zoology in general, and 

 to the National Museum in particular. 



Great credit was also due to Mr. 0. H. B. Grant for the 

 manner in which he had carried out the mission entrusted to 

 him by Mr. Rudd. 



The Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., reported 

 that the small collection of terrestrial Isopoda made by Dr. Cun- 

 nington on the Third Tanganyika Expedition consisted of four 

 species. For two of these he instituted the new genus Anchi- 

 philoscia, distinguished by more penicils on the mandibles and a 

 difierent cleavage of the second maxillae from Philoscia as founded 

 by Latreille in 1804. The paper insisted on the need of some 

 enthusiast able and willing thoi'oughly to revise all the forms 

 which had clustered under and about the generic name Philoscia. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., Prosector to the 

 Society, gave an account of a communication on the anatomy 

 of Antechinomys and some other Marsupials, with special 

 reference to the intestinal tract and mesenteries of these and 

 other Mammals. With the aid of a series of diagrams, the 

 author described four grades or types into which he divided 

 the modes of suspension of the mammalian intestinal tract. 



Prof. H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., F.Z.S., read a paper on the 

 dermal armour of the extinct reptiles of the genus Pareia- 

 saurus. The existence of a dermal armour in Pareisaurus had 

 been doubted by some authors, but Prof. Seeley was able to 

 exhibit some actual specimens of scutes which had been obtained 

 by Mr. J. Yan Renen, south of Fraserberg, Cape Colony. 



Prof. Seeley also exhibited the skull of an extinct reptile of 

 the genus Diademodon, on which he proposed to found a new 

 species, and gave an account of the further evidence which it 

 afforded of the striicture and dentition of these South African 

 reptiles. 



A communication from the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild, 

 M.A., F.Z.S., contained descriptions of many new species of 

 Siphonaptera, 



Addition to Abstract, No. 58, May 12th, 1908. 



Mr. Lydekker described under the name Felis temmincM 

 mitchelli the Wild Cat which had been obtained by the Hon. 

 Mason Mitchell in Sze-chuen, and stated that it difi'ered from a 

 light- coloured skin of F. temmincki from Sikkim by the much 

 lighter colou.r of the upper parts, which were golden tawny, with 

 a comparatively narrow dorsal streak of light rufous, and by its 

 tail beine- golden rufous above. 



