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. December 27, iS3I. 



William Clift, Esq. in the Chair. 



Mr. Vigors reported that the Resolution agreed to at the last Meet- 

 ing of the Committee had been communicated to the Council : that 

 the Council, fully concurring in the propriety of instituting the experi- 

 ments suggested therein, had directed that they should be tried on 

 two Leopards, two Ocelots, and two Hyaenas : and that instructions 

 had been accordingly given to the Head-keeper to carry them into 

 effect. 



A collection of animals preserved in spirit, and recently presented 

 to the Society by Charles Barclay, Esq., was exhibited. It was col- 

 lected by Charles Telfair, Esq., of the Mauritius, Corr. Memb. Z. S., 

 and contained specimens of Maimnalia, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects. 

 Among the former were individ\mls of two species of Tenrec, Centenes, 

 lUig., which were pointed out as the Cent, aefusus and Cent, semispi- 

 nosus, and reference was made to the liahits of the animals of this 

 genus as described by Mr. Telfair in a communication read to the 

 Committee on June 14 (p. 89). The apparently good state of preser- 

 vation of the specimens authorized the hope that their anatomical 

 structure might be properly investigated. 



The remaining portion of the collection of Fishes formed at the 

 Mauritius by Charles Telfair, Esq., Corr. Memb. Z. S., and presented 

 by him to the Society, was exhibited. The species contained in it 

 were brouglit in succession under the notice of the Committee by Mr. 

 Bennett, who pointed out more particularly those which he believed 

 to be new to science. As such he named and characterized the fol- 

 lowing : 



ScoLOPSiDKS Piiajops. Scot, lohis p'mnce caudalisjilamentosis : rostro 

 superclliisque alepidotis, mgrescentibus, illo vittd argentea infra 

 oculum prodnctd infernc mnrginato ; linen ohliqud pallide argcn- 

 ted ub orulo ad prcEopercidi angulum decurrente ; operculo toto 

 squamalo ; vitta dorsali utrinque argcnlea supra lineam lateralem ; 

 Cauda supernr macula nigrescenti nolata. 

 D. V"- A. f &c. 



Sent, frceuato. Cuv. & Val., videtur maxima affnis. Difl'ert vitta 

 dorsali argentea et operculo toto squamato, 



Ampiiiprion rusciVKNTKR. Ainph. niger, ventre parum paUidiori ; 

 fascia angiistd opcrculuri, altera laferali media, tertiaque obsoletd 

 caudali ulbis ; pinna caudali postice pinnarumque dor satis analis- 

 que parte molli alho Jimbriatis ; pinriis ventralihus interne dimi- 

 diatimjlavis. 

 D. -i-f. A. -rV &c- 



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