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flappers to that of the ventral fins is 17 inches : that of thė tail 21 :• 

 cxtreme breadth of body 28. These dimensions were rcspectively 

 32, 27, and 44 inches in another individual formerly examined by 

 Dr. Bancroft, whicli he considered to be adult. 



A third species is the common Sea-Eel or Conger of Jamaica. 

 It is perhaps identical witli the Savanne of Martinique {Muraną 

 Savanna, Cuv.), a fish of which no distinguishing mark has yet been 

 published, except that derived from the forw'ard position of the com- 

 mencement of its dorsal iin. Its teeth are peculiar. Its character» 

 may be thus expressed : 



Conger Sa\anna? Cong. pinnd dorsali ante basin pinvarum 

 pectoraliinn incipiente : dentibus anterioribus conicis ; lateralibus 

 pluri-scriotis, seriei medice majoribus, parallelopipedis, cuneatis, 

 serierum externarum internarumgue minoribus granulatis rotun- 

 datisgue, omnibus confeiiis ; vomerinis mediis majoribus triangit- 

 laribus, subrectirvis, compressis, lateralibus rotundato- granulatis. 



A specimen was exhibited of a species of Pkalangista, GeofF., 

 which had been lately presented to the Society's Museum by 



Talbot, Esq. Mr. Ogilby stated that he regarded it as forming 



a new species, to v/hich he gavę the name of Phal. xanthopus. He 

 also called the attention of the Committee to a second undescribed 

 species of the šame genus, which is now living in the Society's 

 Gardens. 



Mr. Ogilby characterized and described these two animals as 

 follovvs : 



Phalangista FULiGiNOSA. Phal. vellere subcrispo, supra et 



subtusjusco-fidiginoso ; caudd longd, villosd, dorso concolore. 

 The size and proportions are those of the Phal. vulpina ; the ears 

 are also of sirailar shape and size, hairy on the outsides, but naked 

 within. The colour is a uniform dark sooty-brown over all parts of 

 the head and body, not even excepting the belly and inner siirface 

 of the thighs. The hair has a frizzied appearance, but is not so 

 close nor so fine as in Phal. vulpina. The tai! is long, black, and 

 rather bushy ; the naked slip underneath, as well as the nose and 

 soles of the feet, which are also naked, is of a bright flesh colour. 

 The moustaches are long, stifF, and black. 



Described from a specimen at present living in the Society's 

 Gardens, and said to have been brought from Sydney. 



Phalangista xanthoi'US. Phal. vellere densissimo, suprU 



cano-Jiisco, vifra canescente ; pedibus Jidvis ; caudd villosd^ 



radice dorso concolore, apice alba. 



The upper parts of the body are of a blueish ash colour, with a 



dash of black, which prevails chiefly about the head and eyes ; tlie 



under parts yeIlowish-white. The base of the ears is of the šame 



colour as the upper parts of the body, but their tips are white, as 



in the Phal. vulpina. The tail is ash-coloured at the root, dark 



brown in the middle, and pure white on the lašt two inches. The 



limbs on their external surfaces are of the šame colour as the body, 



but the feet are of a dun-yellow. 



