No. 62. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON* 



November 17th, 1908. 



Prof. E. A. MiNCHiN, M.A., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair, 



The Secbetary read a Report on the additions that had been 

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

 1908. 



Mr. E. E. Austen, F.Z.S., exhibited some living tropical flies, 

 captured in Manchester, and remarked on the agency of man in 

 extending the distribution of insects. 



Dr. N. Annaxdale, C.M.Z.S., communicated a paper on " A 

 new Genus and Species of Slow-Lemurs from the Lushai Hills, 

 Assam." The animal is known only from a photograph of two 

 individuals taken in 1889 by Mr. T. D. La Touche, and resembles 

 Nycticebus in appearance, but has a long bushy tail, which 

 distinguishes it from all known Oriental Lemurs. 



Mr. G. C. Bourne, D.Sc, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Linacre Professor of 

 Comparative Anatomy in the University of Oxford, presented a 

 Memoir entitled " Contributions to the Morphology of the Group 

 Neritacea of Aspidobranch Gastropods. — Pa)t I. The Neritidse." 

 As a result of the comparative study of the anatomy of several 

 species of marine, estuarine, and freshwater Neritidse, the Author 

 found that the forms hitherto classed in the genera Nerita, 

 Neritina, and Septaria fall into three well-marked groups of 

 subgeneric value, the chief distinctive characters relating to the 



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