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subcentral series of small compressed tubercles, like the commence- 
ment of new branches ; lateral pores narrow, cells small. 
Var. The upper surface of the stem with many short furcate 
branches. 
Hab. Pacific Ocean, near New Caledonia, in deep water. 
This species differs from the only other recent species of the genus 
known, viz. D. violacea, not only in the beautiful bright crimson colour, 
but also in the form of the stem and branches, which in this coral 
is much more compressed, broader, and with shelving edges, giving 
it arather sword-like appearance. The lateral grooves containing the 
cells are much narrower, and the polypiferous cells much smaller. In 
one specimen the small oblong compressed tubercles on the middle 
of the upper side of the branches are produced into simple, forked, 
or sometimes more subdivided short branches. The apices of the 
branches, which have been broken and reproduced, are whitish. 
The surface of many of the branchlets, as in D. violacea, is wore 
or less covered with more or less crowded, convex, circular elevations 
or slight tubercles, which appear to be hollow and blister-like, with 
rather thick parietes. 
3. List or MAMMALIA COLLECTED BY Mr. J. Monrerro 1N 
Ancous. By Painie Lutrvey Scuster, M.A., SecreTARY 
TO THE SOCIETY. 
As so little is known of the Mammals of Angola, I have thought that 
it might be worth while to record the names of a few species observed 
or collected there by Mr. J. Monteiro during his recent residence at 
Bembe. Most of the specimens are flat (furriers’) skins from the 
interior. They were obtained from the caravans that brought down 
ivory, and belong to animals which are natives of a district lying 
about 300 miles from the coast. 
1. CoLoBUS ANGOLENSIS, sp. nov. 
Ater: humerorum utrinque pilis elongatis et caude apice albis. 
Long. tota 24°0, caudze 24:0 poll. 
This Colobus is readily distinguishable from other West- African 
species by its lack tail having only a white termination. Colobus 
guereza of Kastern Africa has a somewhat similar tail ; but the white 
extends al] along the body, over the face, &c. The single skin setit is 
very imperfect, wanting the feet and face, but still affords sufficient 
indication of the distinctness of the species. 
Wagner, in his ‘Supplement to Schreber’s Siugethiere’ (vol. v. 
p- 36), Pel in the ‘Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde’ of Amsterdam (vol. i. 
p- 7), and other writers have, I think, rather hastily reduced the 
species of Black and White Colobi; of which there appear to be at 
least five, recognizable as follows :— 
(1.) CoLosus uRSINUs. 
Colobus ursinus, Ogilby, P. Z. 8. 1835, p. 98; Fraser, Zool. Typ. 
pl. 1. 
