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its tail, which induces me to form for it a section or subgenus, which 

 I propose to call Uronycteris. 



Cynopterus (Uronycteris) albiventer. 



Tail elongate, free, produced beyond the narrow, short, interfemoral 

 membrane. Nostrils much produced, tubular, far apart at the base, 

 and diverging outwardly. Fur brown-olive, with greyer base to the 

 hairs. Face and throat only slightly hairy, grey. Sides of the neck 

 and breast yellow-brown. Side of the body brown. Chest and 

 middle of the belly white. Wings brown. 



Hab. Morty Island (A. R. Wallace). 



The length of the forearm-bone 2 inches ; length of the tail (dry) 

 nearly f of an inch. 



The wing-bone, on the upper surface of the wing, of both speci- 

 mens is marked with some irregular white spots. These may be 

 only accidental, or even artificially produced in the process of pre- 

 servation or by carriage, as the spots on the two sides of the same 

 wings are more or less unlike, and those of the two specimens are 

 dissimilar. 



Mr. Keilish, the furrier, has kindly sent to the British Museum 

 for examination the skin of a Leopard which he has received from 

 Japan. It is well tanned, and marked on the inner side with the 

 red impressions of two Japanese seals. The skin at first sight seemed 

 much like that of a fine-coloured Hunting Leopard, but it is at once 

 distinguished from that animal by the comparatively shorter legs, by 

 the larger size and brown centre of the black spots, and from all the 

 varieties of the Leopard by the linear spots on the nape and the 

 spots on the back not being formed of roses or groups of smaller 

 spots. I propose to call it 



Leopardus japonensis. 



Fur fulvous, paler beneath. Back and limbs ornamented with 

 ovate or roundish unequal-sized black spots. The spots on the 

 shoulders, back, and sides converted into a ring by a single central 

 spot of the same colour as the fur. Spots on the back and legs large, 

 oblong, and transverse. Head with small, regularly disposed, black 

 spots. Nape with four series of narrow elongated black spots (the 

 outer ones sometimes confluent into lines), and with a series of large 

 black spots on each side of the back of the neck. Chest with a series 

 of larger spots, forming a kind of necklace. Tail elongate, very 

 hairy, spotted, paler, and with four black rings at the tip. 



Hab. Japan. 



The skin in its tanned state is 4 feet 6 inches, and the tail 2 feet 

 10 inches long. 



Mr. W. Fosbrooke has kindly presented to the British Museum 

 a small and beautiful species of Boshbock, which was captured by 

 John Dunn, Esq., in the Ungo-zy Forest, between the Umbrelans 

 and Umblatore, in the country of the Amazula. Mr. Dunn could 

 not learn that the natives had any special name for this animal. 



