28 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Zoological Society of London. 



November 21st, 1893.— Sir W. H. Flower, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to 

 the Society's Menagerie during the month of October, 1893, and called special 

 attention to an example of the Goliath Beetle, Goliathus druryi, the 

 largest of known Coleoptera, obtained near Accra, aud presented October 

 5th by Mr. F. W. Marshal; and to an adult female and a young of the 

 Manatee, Manatus americanus, captured in Manatee Bay, Jamaica, and 

 most kindly sent home for the Society's Collection by Sir Henry A. Blake, 

 K.C.M.G. Unfortunately the Manatees had reached the Gardens in a 

 very exhausted condition, and died soon after their arrival. 



The Secretary read an extract from a letter addressed to him by 

 Mr. J. S. Mackay, of the Kangra District, Punjaub, relating to a young 

 Snow-Leopard which he had in captivity, and exhibited some photographs 

 of this animal. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on a mounted specimen of an 

 African Monkey, Cercopithecus albogularis, belonging to the Leyden 

 Museum. 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier exhibited and made remarks on two hybrid 

 Pheasants, believed to be crosses between the Common Pheasant and the 

 Gold and Silver Pheasants. 



A communication was read from Messrs. G. W. and E. C. Peckham, on 

 the Spiders of the family Attidce of the Island of St. Vincent, based on 

 specimens collected in that island by the agency of the joint Committee of 

 the Royal Society and the British Association for the exploration of the 

 Lesser Antilles. The series had been collected by Mr. Herbert H. Smith 

 and Mrs. Smith, who had been specially sent to the island as skilled 

 collectors by Mr. F. D. God man. 



A communication was read from Mr. P. R. Uhler, containing a list of 

 the Hemiptera-Heteroptera collected in the Island of St. Vincent by 

 Mr. and Mrs. Herbert H. Smith, with descriptions of new genera and 

 species. 



Dr. G. Lindsay Johnson made some observations ou the refraction and 

 vision of the eye of the Common Seal, Phoca vitulina. 



Mr. Sclater read a paper on some specimens of mammals from Lake 

 Mweru, British Central Africa, transmitted by Vice-Consul Alfred Sharpe, 

 through Mr. H. H. Johnston. The specimens were referred to seventeen 

 species, amongst which was a new Monkey of the genus Cercopithecus, 

 proposed to be called C. opisthost ictus, and a new Antelope allied to the 

 Waterbuck, which was named Cobus crawshayi, after Mr. 11. Crawshay, 

 who had first discovered the species. 



