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December27, 1831. 



William Clift, Esq. in the Chair. 



Mr. Vigors reported that the Resolution agreedto at the lašt Meet- 

 ing of the Comtnittee had been comtnunicated to the Council : that 

 the Council, fuUy concurring in the propriety of instituting the experi- 

 ments suggested therein, had ilirected that they should be tried on 

 two Leopards, two Ocelots, and two Hysenas : and that instructions 

 had been accordingly given to the Head-keeper to cany them into 

 eftect. 



A collection of animals preserved in spirit, and recently presented 

 to the Society by Charles Barclay, Esq., was exhibited. It vvas col- 

 lected by Charles Telfair, Esq., of the Mauritius, Corr. Memb. Z. S., 

 and conlained specimensof Mammalia, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects. 

 Among the former were individuals of two species of Tenrec, Centenes, 

 Illig., v'hich were pointed out as the Cent. setosus and Cent. semispi- 

 nosus, and reference was made to the habits of the animals of this 

 genus as described by Mr. Telfair in a communication read to the 

 Committee on June 14 (p. 89). The apparently good statė of preser- 

 vation of the specimens authorized the hope that their anatomical 

 structure might be properly investigated. 



. The reinaining portion of the collection of Fishes formed at the 

 Mauritius by Charles Telfair, Esq., Corr. Memb. Z. S., and presented 

 by him to the Society, vvas exhibited. The species contained in it 

 were brought in succession under the notice of the Committee by Mr. 

 Bennett, who pointed out more particularly those which he believed 

 to be nevv to science. As such he named and characterized the fol- 

 lowing : 



ScoLOPSiDES PH^ops. Scol. loHs pinTice caudaUsJilamentosis : rostro 

 superciliisgue alepidotis, nigrescentibus, illo vittd argentea infra 

 oculuni proditctd inferne marginalo ; linea obUqud pallide argen- 

 ted ub oculo ad prceoperculi angulum decurrente ; operculo toto 

 sąuamato ; vittd dorsali utringue argentea supra lineam lateralem ; 

 caudd superne maculd nigrescenti notata. 

 D. V". A. f &c. 



ScoL/rtenato, Cuv. & Vai., videtur niaxim^ affinis. Differt vitta 

 dorsali argentea et operculo toto squamato. 



Amphiprion fuscivknter. Amph. niger, ventre partini pallidiori; 

 fascid angusld fjperculari, altera laterali medid, tertidque obsoletd 

 caudali albis ; pinnd caudali poslice pinnarumque dorsalis analis' 

 que parte molli alho Jimhriatis ; pinnis ventralibus interne dimi- 

 diatim flavis. 

 D. -j-į.; A. -rV&c. 



[No. XIV.] ZOOL. SoC. PROCEKDINGS OF TUE CoMM. OF ScIeVcE. 



