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tlian the ground. The broadest of the dark stripes are on the loins, 

 irhere they are fully an inch in width : their direction in passing 

 down the sides is rather backvvards. The commencement of a dark 

 streak is also seen on the skin leading to the outside of the thighs. 

 The quah'ty of the fur is raiher rigid, and the hairs are adpressed, 

 resembling in these particulars the covering of the Zebras. It may 

 not improbably belong to some species of Antelope, with which Eu- 

 ropeans are yet unacquainted, but for \vhich traveliers to the country 

 from whence the specimen was obtained may beinduced to inąuire, ^^^-^ 

 on being raade avvare of the existence of so beautiful an animal in 

 that locality. The dark cross markings which ornament the fur are 

 so uncommon among the Mammalia, that they alone will probably 

 furnish a sufficient character to distinguish the quadruped in ques- 

 tion from any other species inhabiting the interior of Africa, in the 

 neighbourhood of Algoa Bay. 



Severai specimens were also exhibited of imperfect skins of Cer- 

 copithecus Diana, obtained from the šame locality. 



Specimens vvere exhibited of two species of Hedgehog from the 

 Himalayan Mountains, which liad recently been added to the So- 

 ciety's collection. Both of them belonged to that extra-European 

 form of the genus Erinaceus, vvhich is distinguished by the posses- 

 sion of long ears. Their cbaracters vrere thus explained by Mr. 

 Bennett : 



Erinaceus Spatangus. Er. auriculis longis : spinis parallelim 

 dispositis, apkibus longe ccerulescenti-nigris, laterum verstis api- 

 ces Jlavescenti annulatis ; capite, pedibus, gastrceogue brunneo- 

 Juscis ; auriculis mentogue albis. 



Long. capitis co7yorisąne, 3-į unc. ; a naso ad auriculse basin, į^ ; 

 auriculcE, J; caudtE, \ ; pedis postici cum unguibus, 1. 



The form of the body is oval, rather elongate, with the head pro- 

 jecting in front. The spines are not irregularly intersvoven, as in 

 the Hedgehiigs generally, but are disposed parallel to each other, 

 radiating from a point on the loins; a disposition which gives to 

 this species a more smooth and elegant appearance than isobserved 

 in any one of the genus previously known. The spines are nearly 

 white for rather more than one half of their length, the remainder 

 being of the blueish black which constitutes the general colour of 

 the upper surface, scarcely any of the white being seen : the only 

 deviation from this general colour occurs in a rather broad patch 

 on each side, \vhere it is spotted with yellovvish, an intermixture 

 occasioned by the existence of a narrow ring of the latter colour 

 near the tips of the spines in those situations. 



The fur is generally of a dull brovvn ; it is short on the upper 

 surface of the head, and long on the under parts of the body. On 

 the ears and chin the hairs are short and white. 



The lengthened ears are rounded and somewhat thickened at their 

 extremities. The moustaches are extremely long, and of a glossy 

 brovvn. 



The specimen described is probably not fully aduit^ there being 



