146 Zoological Society . 



** The appearance of the animal when in this position is wonder- 

 fully like a frog with a very large mouth, the marked division between 

 the fawn and the whitish colour of the upper and under surface sug- 

 gesting the idea of the line of the aperture of the mouth (see fig. 1 ). 



** It seems to use the right- or left-hand siphon indifferently. The 

 siphons are about ^rd of an inch in diameter. It has the power of 

 walking or moving about upon its arms. It swims rapidly in a 



Fig. 2. 



horizontal attitude, elongating the body, and propelling itself with 

 a frog-like motion, by opening and contracting its arms. 



" When I poured off the water, it discharged, at two or three jets 

 through the siphons, a small quantity of black fluid, which remained 

 undissolved for some time, in small cobweb-like clouds, floating 

 about on the water. It has the power of contracting the skin above 

 the eyes, so as to make a small horn-like projection ; but this only 

 rarely appears. The belly gives you more the idea of a snout than 

 of anything else ; it is about the size of a full-sized Turkey's egg. 

 It walked high, on the tips of its arms (see fig. 2)." 



November 23, 1858.— Dr. Gray, V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair. 



Notice of five Species of Bats in the Collection of 

 L. L. DiLLWYN, Esa., M.P. ; collected in Labuan by 

 Mr. James Motley. By Robert F. Tomes. 



1. Pteropus HYPOMELANus,Temm. Esquiss. Zool. i. p. 61, 1853. 



Although the specimen of Pteropus included in the collection for- 

 warded to me for examination differs very materially in colour from 



