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In the description of the organs of generation ; the cavity in the 

 head containing the spcrmaceti ; and some more of the soft parts, 

 Mr. Bennett's observations coincide with those of Hunter and other 

 comparative anatomists. 



A foetus apparently of mature growth, taken from the ahdomen of 

 a Sperm TVhale, measured 14 feet in length and 6 in girth; its 

 position in the uterus ■was that of a bent bow. 



Mr. Reid brought before the notice of the Meeting a new species 

 of the genus Perameles, and read a paper giving some account of its 

 habits, and pointing out its distinguishing characters. 



The author statės that he was indebted toWilliam Holmes, Esq., 

 of Lyon's Inn. for the opportunity of exhibiting this specimen, which 

 was brought from Van Diemen's Land, where these animals are said 

 to be common. The šame species is also found in Western Australia, 

 and is there called by the natives Dalgheit, and by the colonists the 

 Rahbit, under wliich name it is mentioned by Cunningham in his 

 work on New South Wales. Widdowson, in his account of Van 

 Diemen's Land, notices it ; but neither of these writers has given 

 any description of the animal. From its resemblance to the Rabbit, 

 Mr. Reid proposes for it the specific name of Lagotis. 



Pekameles Lagotis. Per. griseus, capite, nuchd, et dorso, castaneo 

 lavatis ; buccis, lateribus colli, scapulis, lateribus, femoribus extus, 

 cauddųue ad basin, pallide castaneis ; mento, guld, pectore, abdo- 

 mine, extremitatibus intus anticique, antibracMis postice, pedi- 

 busgue suprh albidis ; antibrachiis externė pallidi griseis, femo- 

 ribus extus posticeąue saturate plumbeis ; caudd, pilis longis albes- 

 centibus ad partem basalem, indutd, dein pilis nigris tectd, parte 

 apicali albd, pilis longis supra ornatd. Vellere longo molli. 

 Caudd pilis rudis vestitd ; pilis ad pedes brevissimis. Labio su- 

 periore, buccisgue, mystacibus longis sparsis. Auriculis longis, 

 ovatis, intūs nudis, extus pilis brevissimis brunneis, ad tnarginem, 

 ulbescentibus indutis, pilis ad bases eos plumbeis, apicibus albis 

 aut castaneis, illis in abdomine otnninb albis. Marsupio ventrali 

 tnagno, mammis novem, in faciem posticam ; guarum una centra- 

 lis est, religuis circumdata, intervallis cegualibus, gyrumgue faci- 

 entibus, transveršlm unciam cum quadrante reddentem. 



poli. lin. 



Long. capitis 5 3 



corporis 13 O 



caudse 10 O 



auriculse 3 10 



antibrachii 4 O 



pedis antici 1 8 



tibise 3 9 



pedis postici 4 6 



ab auriculse basi usąue ad oculum . . 2 



ab oculo usąue ad nasum 2 8 



Latitudo auriculse 1 9 



Httb. In Australid Occidentali et in Terrž Van Diemen. 



