No. 121. 



ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.^ 



May 6tli, 1913. 

 Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R,S., Yice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 



Mr. E. G. BoxjLENGER, P.Z.S., Curator of Reptiles, exhibited a 

 living melanistic specimen of the Green Lizard [Lacerta viridis) 

 recently received from Dalmatia. 



A new Species of Golden Mole. 



Dr. R. Broom, C.M.Z.S., exhibited an example of a new species 

 of Golden Mole from near Springs, Transvaal, and described it as 

 follows : — " Though closely allied to- the Natal species, Bematiscus 

 villosus, it difiers in having a much softer fur of a dark reddish- 

 brown colour, while the skull differs principally in having a tem- 

 poral bulla almost half as large again as in B. vilhsus. For the 

 new form the name Bematiscus transvacdensis is proposed. The 

 following skull-measurements are given for comparison with those 



of B. villosus : — 



Length. Breadth. Dental Series. 



" B. villosus, Smith's type 33 20'5 13-5 mm. 



j5. 'yi7^os2ts, Dobson's specimen... 34 22 13 mm. 



B. transvaalensis 34-5 23-5 14-5 mm." 



Dr. Broom also exhibited an adult female of the large S. African 

 Lizard, Zonurus giganteus, with two newly-born young, and 

 three adult male specimens of the allied species Pseudocordylus 

 microlepidotus. 



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