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than the ground. The broadest of the dark stripes are on the loins, 

 where they are fully an inch in width : their direction in passing- 

 down the sides is rather backwards. The commencement of a dark 

 streak is also seen on the skin leading to the outside of the thighs. 

 The quality of the fur is rather rigid, and the hairs are adpressed, 

 resembling in these particulars the covering of the Zebras. It may 

 not improbably belong to some species of Antelope, with which Eu- 

 ropeans are yet unacquainted, but for which travellers to the country 

 from whence the specimen was obtained may be induced to inquire, 

 on being made aware of the existence of so beautiful an animal in 

 that locality. The dark cross markings which ornament the fur are 

 so uncommon among the Mammalia, that they alone will probably 

 furnish a sufficient character to distinguish ihe quadruped in ques- 

 tion from any other species inhabiting the interior of Africa, in the 

 neighbourhood of Algoa Bay. 



Several specimens were also exhibited of imperfect skins of Cer- 

 copithecus Diana, obtained from the same locality. 



Specimens were exhibited of two species of Hedgehop:; from the 

 Himalayan Mountains, which had recently been added to the So- 

 ciety's collection. Both of them belonged to that extra-European 

 form of the genus Erinaceus, which is distinguished by the posses- 

 sion of long ears. Their characters were thus explained by Mr. 

 Bennett : 



Erinaceus Spatangus. Er. auriculis longis : sjmxis j)arallelim 

 dispositis, apicibiis longe cce7-idescenfi-nigris, laterum versus api- 

 ces Jlavescenti anmdatis ; capite, pcdibus, gastrceoque brunneo- 

 Juscis ; auricidis mentoqiie albis. 



Long, capitis corporisqae, 3-J^ unc. ; a naso ad auriculae basin, ^ ; 

 anriciihc, 1; caudce, \ ; pedis post ici cum unguibus, 1. 



The form of the body is oval, rather elongate, with the head pro- 

 jecting in front. The spines are not irregularly interwoven, as in 

 the Hedgehogs generally, but are disposed parallel to each other, 

 radiating from a point on the loins; a disposition which gives to 

 this species a more smooth and elegant appearance than i.s observed 

 in any one of the genus previously known. The spines are nearly 

 white for rather more than one half of their lengthy the remainder 

 being of the blueish black which constitutes the general colour of 

 the upper surface, scarcely any of the white being seen: the only 

 deviation from this general colour occurs in a rather broad patch 

 on each side, where it is spotted with yellowish, an intermixture 

 occasioned by the existence of a narrow ring of the latter colour 

 near the tips of the spines in those situations. 



The fur is generally of a dull brown ; it is short on the upper 

 surface of the head, and long on the under parts of the body. On 

 the ears and chin the hairs are short and white. 



The lengthened ears are rounded and somewhat thickened at their 

 extremities. The moustaches are extremely long, and of a glossy 

 brown. 



The specimen described is probably not fully adult^ there being 



