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SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 



At the Meeting for scientific business of the Zoological 

 Society, May 18th, Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a valuable and 

 highly interesting series of skins of Mammalia, from the island 

 of Fernando Po, which had recently been presented to the 

 Society's Museum by George Knapp, Esq. The collection 

 contained eight or nine species, which Mr. Waterhouse con- 

 siders to be entirely new ; in which are included two unde- 

 scribed species of the genus Colobus, forming a most impor- 

 tant addition to that group of Quadrumana, of which our 

 knowledge is so extremely limited, from the very small num- 

 ber of -skins hitherto brought to Europe. Mr. Waterhouse 

 proposes to name one of these Colobi in honour of Pennant, 

 C. Pennantii, and he remarked that it is the nearest species to 

 the bay monkey of that naturalist, yet discovered, but differs 

 from it in having the throat and cheeks white, and in exhi- 

 biting three distinct shades of colouring on the body ; the 

 species described by Pennant was also from a different loca- 

 lity, Sierra Leone, a circumstance which strengthens the pro- 

 bability of its being distinct. For the remaining species of 

 Colobus Mr. Waterhouse proposes the specific appellation of 

 Satanas ; its uniform black colour will at once serve to dis- 

 tinguish it from the only allied species, leucoprymnus and 

 ursinus, the former having white thighs and a white throat, 

 while the latter has the tail entirely white. Mr. Waterhouse 

 next proceeded to describe two species of the genus Cerco- 

 pithecus, one of which was named C. Martini, and the other 

 C. erythrotis. A new species of genet, which Mr. Water- 

 house stated to differ from all other African genets in its ge- 

 neral colour, and the dark marks and spots upon the body, 

 was called Genetta Poensis. A new otter was called Lutra 

 Poensis ; and an antelope, also included in the same collec- 

 tion, was characterized as Antilope Ogilbyi. The skin of this 

 last animal was imperfect, being without the head and extre- 

 mities ; but it was regarded by Mr. Waterhouse as most close- 

 ly allied to the A. scripta, in which case he remarked that it 

 would belong to the sub-genus Tragelaphus of Ham. Smith, 

 or the more extended group to which Mr. Ogilby has applied 

 the name of Calliope. 



Mr. Waterhouse then proceeded to notice two extremely 

 interesting skins which had just been brought over from 

 Sierra Leone by Major Dundas Campbell, and sent by him 

 for exhibition at the Society's evening meeting, with a pro- 

 mise, on the part of Major Campbell, to present them to the 



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