Mr. W. S. Kent on Tetliya muricata. 209 



erect, black hairs tipped with brown, almost an inch or rather 

 more in length ; but in this individual the hairs are nearly 5 

 inches long (P. Z. S. 1872, p. 130), so that the character from 

 which it has been named may be only an individual pecu- 

 liarity. 



The species from Malacca has the hair on the body " thick, 

 black, which stands erect like the hog-mane of a horse ;" and 

 further on, Mr. Buckland says the hair is stiff like " hedgehog's 

 bristles." 



The skin is " very rough, the tail long and thin, and comes 

 nearly to the hocks." 



Hairy Rhinoceros from Malacca, Buckland, ' Land and Water,' Aug. 10, 



1872. 

 Rhinoceros sumati'ensis, Sclater, j^e Buckland, 'Land and Water,' Aug, 10, 



1872. 

 Rhinoceros sumatranus from Tavoy, Bljiili, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 



1862, t. 4. f. 1 & 2 (skull). 

 Rhinoceros su7nrdra7ius from Tenasserim, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 



1862, p. 156, t. 3. f. 1, 2, 3, & ,. 4. f. 2 & 3. 

 Rhinoceros Crossii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 250, fig. (horns). 



Hab. Malacca [Zool. Gard.) ; Tavoy, northern frontier of 

 Siam ; Pegu {Theobald, B.M.). 



I think, from Blyth's figure of the skull from Tavoy, that 

 the name of Ceratorhinus Crossii should be attributed to this 

 species. 



It is clearly not the Sumatran CeratorMmis figured and 

 described by Bell, Miiller, and other zoologists, who would 

 not have overlooked the hedgehog-like bristles and long slender 

 tail. 



XXXI. — Note on Tethya muricata, Bowerbank, and Dor- 

 villia agariciformis, Kent. By W. Saville Kent, F.Z.S., 

 F.E.M.S., Geological Department, British Museum. 

 In Part I. of the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' for 

 this year, just issued. Dr. Bowerbank comments upon a sponge 

 described and figured by myself in the ' Transactions of the 

 Koyal Microscopical Society' for 1870, under the name of 

 DorvilUa agariciformis, referring it to his hitherto manuscript 

 species Tethya muricata. The singular mushroom-like form 

 which suggested the specific title attached to this sponge in 

 my description, Dr. Bowerbank thinks fit to regard as an 

 abnormal and imperfect condition, and summarily disposes of 

 it as a " mutilated specimen " of his own species, having " the 

 upper portion evidently torn away from its basal one, causing 



