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specimen, which forms part of the coUection of the Army Medical 

 Department at Cliatham, was brought." — E. B. 



Mr. Gray exliibited various species of the Linnean genus Venus^ 

 in illustration of the subdivisions into other generic groups vvhich 

 appeared to him to be, in the present statė of the science, valid. 

 He pointed out the characters of these several genera ; referred to 

 the types of each ; and noticed many hitherto undescribed species 

 contained either in his own collection or in that of the Brilish Mu- 



Mr. Bennett called the attention of the Society to a Paradoxure 

 now hving at the Gardens, vvhich he regarded as previously unde- 

 scribed. He characterized it as the 



Paradoxurus Grayi. Par. vellere denso, subceguali; olivaceo- 

 Julvescens cinereo tinctus, subtus palUdior ; facie, auriculis,pedi- 

 busgue nigris, Ulius vittu nasali, Jascid abbreviatd suboculari, 

 Jronteąue cinereis. 



Long. corporis cum capite, circiter 20 unc. ; caudce pauUo major. 



Hab. in India. 



The fur of the animal, unlike that of Par. Typus, F. Cuv., and 

 some other closely related species, is nearly of equai length, and is 

 dense and in some degree woolly. Its colour above is a light fui- 

 vous brovvn, shovving in certain lights a strong cinereous tinge, 

 ovving to the black tips of many of the hairs. Beneath it is lighter, 

 and has a raore cinereous tinge. The h'mbs are ash-coloured and 

 deeper in intensity towards the feet, vvhich are black. The tail is 

 throughout of the šame colour with the body. The ears are 

 rounded, covered with hairs, and nearly black, The face is black, 

 vvith the exception of the forehead, of a longitudinal dash dovvn the 

 middle of the nose, and of a blotch-like short oblique band under 

 each eye; these markings being grey, There are no traces of lon- 

 gitudinal bands or spots on the body. 



The separate hairs are dusky at the base aud pale yellowish in 

 the middle : they are tipped vvith black. 



The tail is constantly tvvisted in the manner in vvhich it is occa- 

 sionally borne by Par. Typus, and cannot be rendered straight. 



As the specimen was purchased of a dealer, the precise part of 

 India in vvhich it was captured cannot be ascertained. 



