Zoological Society. 475 



Dysopes. — I know of but one Indian species of this genus^ 

 which is the Vespertilio plicatus of Buchanan Hamilton, Linn* 

 Trans, v. 261 ; the Nyctinomus bengalensis of M. Geoffroy ; 

 and I am inclined to regard the D, murinus of Hardwicke's pub- 

 lished drawings as no other, indifferently represented. I was 

 favoured with a live specimen of this animal by Mr. Ridsdale, of 

 Bishop^s College Press, and lately obtained another which flew in 

 at a window : Mr. Masters also has presented the Society with a 

 stuffed one : all of these being much of a " snuff-brown^'' colour, 

 the fur of the under -parts tipped paler : but there is an old spe- 

 cimen of what may perhaps be another species in the museum, 

 the fur of which is remarkably close and velvety, and very dark 

 fuliginous brown above, with a shade of maroon, the under- 

 parts similar, but paler and somewhat reddish. So far as I can 

 judge from the state of the specimen, it presents however no 

 structural characters at variance with those of the other that can 

 warrant its being distinguished as a species ; but I yet suspect 

 that it is a different species from the plicatus^. The affinity of 

 this genus for Taphozous is very apparent in the living or recent 

 specimens, the present group having even the same peculiar 

 mode of folding the wings, which is not the case even with Rhi- 

 nopoma, wherein there is merely a tendency or inclination to 

 that particular mode of duplicature of the wings. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Dec. 10, 1844. — William Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 Descriptions of new species of Mitra and Cardium, by Lovell 

 Reeve, Esq. : — 



CAEDiuk. 



Cardium incarnatum. Card, testa gihboso-globosd, longitudina" 

 liter cosfatd, costis quatuor et viginti, rotundis, complanatis, mar- 

 gines versus medio obsolete brevispinosis , interstitiis angustis, sub- 

 profundis, transversim striatis ; pallide incarnatd, radiis roseis 

 transversis hie illic ornatd. 

 Conch. Icon., Cardium, pi. 1. f. 2. 



Hab. Bay of Manila (found in sandy mud at the depth of six fa- 

 thoms) ; Cuming. 



A warm flesh-tinted shell, of which Mr. Cuming collected a few 

 odd valves in the above-mentioned locality, and has lately received 

 several perfect pairs. 



Cardium mindanense. Card, testd subobliqu"^ cordiformi, longi' 

 tudinaliter costatd, costis novem et viginti, squamiferis, squamis 



* It is probably the Malayan D. tenuis, v. Nyctinomus tenuis^ Horsfield. 



