1908.1 ox TKOPICAL FLIES CAUGHT IN MANCHESTER. 809' 



November 17, 1908. 

 Prof. E. A. MiNCHiN, M.A., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions; 

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

 1908:— 



The number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie 

 during the month of October was 131. Of these 38 were acquired 

 by presentation, 5 by purchase, 83 were received on deposit, and 

 5 were born in the Gardens. The number of departures during 

 the same period, by death and removals, was 186. 



Among the additions special attention may be directed to : — 



One Vicuna (Lama vicugna), from South America, presented 

 by T. Rome, Esq., on October 16th. 



A Collection of 26 Birds of Paradise, including 5 Count Raggi's- 

 Birds of Paradise (Paradisea raggiana), 7 Lawes" Birds of Para- 

 dise fPrtroiift laioesi), 10 Hunstein'sBirds of Paradise {^Dij^hyUodes 

 hunsteini), 1 New Guinea Rifie-bircl (Ftilorhis intercedens), 2 Violet 

 Wanucodes {Phon9/gamapicr2yu7'eo-violacea), and 1 Prince Rudolph's 

 Bird of Paradise {Paradisornis rudolqyhi), never previously im- 

 ported, from S.E. New Guinea, deposited by Sir William Ingram,. 

 Bt., E.Z.S., on October 5th. 



A Collection of Mammals, Reptiles, and Birds, including a 

 Black-and- White Spai^row-Hawk {Accijnter melanoleucus), from 

 S. Nigeria, presented by Dr. W. F. Macfarlane, F.Z.S., on 

 October 30th. 



Mr. E. E. Austen, F.Z.S., exhibited living specimens of a Fly, 

 Hermetia illucens L., caught in Manchester and received from 

 Dr. W. E. Hoyle. Since larvte of this fly (a native of Tropical 

 South America, Central America, and the West Indies, breeding 

 in decaying vegetable matter) had previously been found in 

 Liverpool in cargoes of raw rubber from the Amazons, it was- 

 thought that these specimens might possibly have been introduced 

 into Manchester in a similar way. 



The Reports on the Ruwenzori Expedition Collections were- 

 communicated to the meeting, and will be published entire in 

 the ' Transactions.' 



