296 Dr. J. E. Gray on a new Antelope from Africa. 



Undoubtedly allied to Paxillus panuoides, but at once distin- 

 guished by the peculiar spores. 



99. Panus strigosus, B. & C. Maximus ; pileo excentrico de- 

 presso stipiteque valido strigosis ; lamellis latis distantibus de- 

 currentibus. Curt. nos. 6197, 5170. On oak stumps, New 

 England, C. J. Sprague ; Pennsylvania, Dr. Michener. 



White ; pileus 8 inches across, excentric, clothed with coarse 

 strigose pubescence ; margin thin ; stem 2-3 inches high, 1 inch 

 or more thick, strigose like the pileus; gills broad, distant, 

 decurrent. 



Allied to Panus levis. 



100. Panus operculatus, B.&C. Fasciculato-erumpens ; pileo 

 cupulseformi apice affixo rufo furfuraceo-villoso glabrescente ; 

 lamellis angustis tenuibus primum velo operculars. Curt, 

 no. 5697. On bark, New England, D. Murray. 



Fasciculate, erumpent; pileus cup-shaped, \ an inch or more 

 across, fixed by the apex, rufous, clothed with scurfy pubescence, 

 which at length vanishes; gills narrow, of the same colour as 

 the pileus, at first covered by a tympanoid veil. 



Allied to P. Delastrii, Mont. 



XXXII. — Notice of a new Antelope (Kobus) from Central Africa. 

 By John Edward Gray, F.R.S. 



The British Museum has lately received, through Mr. Samuel 

 Stevens, a number of heads and horns of Antelopes, &c, from 

 A wan Bahr il Gazal (lat. 6° 70' N.), in Central Africa, which have 

 been brought to England by Mr. Petherick, who has been in 

 the country collecting ivory, &c. I will first give a list of the 

 animals brought, to show their geographical range, and then 

 proceed to give a short notice of the new species. 



1. Bos Taurus, Gray, Cat. of Ungulata in Coll. B. M. p..l7. 

 Variety with the horns elongate and subspiral. Nader-Sobat, 

 lat. 11° N. 



2. Bubalus Coffer, Gray, Cat. p. 28. Horns. 



3. Adenota Lechee, Gray, Cat. p. 98. Male skin, in a bad 

 state ; skull of half-grown male and female. Awan and Raik. 



4. Kobus Maria, n. s. Two heads, male and female. Awan. 



5. Kobus ellipsiprymnus, p. 99. Head of male and female. 

 Raik. 



6. Alcelaphus Bubalis, p. 123. Several heads, of both sexes. 

 Djour. 



7. Damalis Senegalensis, p. 126. Head of male and females. 

 Azack. 



8. Tragelaphus sylvatica, p. 139. Head of male. 



