1891.] MR. A. Thomson's report on the insect-house. 179 



March 3, 1891. 

 Prof. Flower, C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the month of February 1891 : — 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Mena- 

 gerie during the month of February was 65, of which 35 were 

 by presentation, 1 by birth, 15 by purchase, 3 were received in 

 exchange, and 11 on deposit. The total number of departures during 

 the same period, by death and removals, was 69. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited the typical and unique specimen of Mac- 

 gregor's Paradise-bird {Gnemophilus macgregori) from the Queens- 

 land Museum, Brisbane, which had been kindly lent to him by the 

 authorities of that Institution for the purpose of being figured in 

 ' The Ibis.' Mr. Sclater remarked that CnemojMlus, though possibly 

 allied to XantJiomelus, was a very distinct genus, having a structure 

 of the bill and frontal plumes something like that of Diphyllodes. 



Mr. Arthur Thomson, the Society's Head Keeper, exhibited a 

 series of Insects reared in the Insect-house in the Society's Gardens 

 during the past year, and read the following Report on the subject : — 



Report on the Insect-house for 1890. 



Examples of the following species of Insects have been exhibited 

 in the Insect-house during the past season : — 



Sillc-producing Bombyces and their Allies, 

 Indian. 



Attacus atlas. 



pernyi. 



cynthia. 



ricini. 



Samia cecropia. 



ceanothi. 



Telea polyphemus. 



Antliercea cytJierea. 



American. 



African. 



menippe. 



*Renucha smilaoc. 



Anthercea mylitta. 

 Actios selene, 

 Cricula trifenestrata. 



Telea promethea, 



angulifera. 



Hypocliera io. 



Gynanisa isis. 

 Buncea caffraria. 



* Exhibited for the first time. 



