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brown, but each spine individually taken ia yelloTV'ish brown for three 

 parts of its length from the basai extremity ; this colour then becomes 

 darker, and again passes into yellowish brown at the eztreme apex ; 

 the annulation, however, is far less decided than in the British ani- 

 mal. 



" The ears are short and rounded, a white patch is placed before 

 them, and also on the forebead ; the chest is dirtywhite; the sides 

 of the muzzle, and the whole of the under surface are intensely 

 hlackish, or umbre brown, several long white hairs being intennixed 

 with the ręst on the shoulders, extending from the chest. 



" The tarsi are longer than in E. Europ<Bus. In a very large speci- 

 men of the latter, measuring from the nose to the root of tail, over 

 the back, 14į inches ; the foot from the heelto the end of the middle 

 toe, excluding the nail, measures 1 inch ^, •vvhile in this smaller 

 species it measures 1 inch ^. 



" For this species I propose the name of Erinaceus concolor. It may 

 be thus characterised. 



" Eeinacetjs concolor. Er. ohscurefuscus, spinis infrontem, et 

 super oculos obductis ; spinis rigidis, flavescenti-fuscis ad basin, 

 apicem versns intense/uscis, apice extremo pallide rufescenti-brun- 

 neo ; auribus parvis, rotundatis ; rostro breviusculo ; infrontem 

 notd albd, necnon aute aures ; pectore sordidi albo, vellere cor- 

 poris subtUs nigrescenti-fusco, pilis longis albis ad humeros 

 sparsim intermixtis. 



unc. lin. 

 " Longitudo corporis, a rostro ad caudse basin, super 



dorsum 9 6 



" Longitudo pedis postici a calce ad apicem digiti 



intermedii ungue excluso 1 7^ 



" Habitat apud Trebizond." 



Mr. Waterhouse called the attention of the members to two spe- 

 cies of Kangaroos, which were upon the table. One of these had 

 lately been procured by the Society, and was from the neighbour- 

 hood of Hunter's River, the other had died in the Menagerie. Of 

 this latter species the Society has possessed several living specimens ; 

 and there is still one in the Gardens, which was bred there. 



Mr. Waterhouse stated that his object in bringing the animals in 

 ąuestion before the Meeting, vas to show that the specimen from the 

 Menagerie was not, as had been supposed, the Macropus ualabatus of 

 Lesson, but that it •was in fact an undescribed species, being distin- 

 guished from that of Lesson, (wliich Mr. Waterhouse considered as 

 identical with the specimen from Hunter's River,) by the following 

 characters : — the under parts are grayish white, instead of buff yel- 

 low ; the ears are rather longer in proportion, and the tail hoary gray, 

 white beneath, and -vvith a white tip, instead of being almost toteJly 

 black. Mr. Waterhouse proposed that the name Macropus Bennetti 

 be adopted for this species, and proceeded to chauacterise it as follows : 



Macropus Bennetti. Mac. intensi cineraceus, regione scapulari. 



