644 Dr. Horsfield on the Felis Macrocelis. 



specimens of the Corals from the coast of Sumatra, in very perfect 

 state of preservation. — Seventhly. A Herbarium of Sumatran 

 plants, of considerable extent. — Eighthly. Materials for further 

 illustration of the genus Rafflesia, in every state of fructification, 

 consisting of numerous specimens carefully preserved in spirits and 

 in salt-water. — Ninthly. A very extensive collection of living 

 plants ; among which may be enumerated a new species of Ne- 

 penthes, and the Rafflesia Arnoldi. These were brought in a 

 thriving state to St. Helena, where they were deposited, pro- 

 visionally, in the Hon. East India Company's Botanic Garden. — 

 Tenthly. A collection of drawings of a considerable number of 

 the Quadrupeds, Birds, and Plants, of Sumatra. On the first- 

 mentioned of these subjects, lam happy to have an opportunity of 

 adding the following statement, from high authority. *' It was 

 from the Foetus in utero of the Malayan Tapir, brought to Eng- 

 land in spirits by Sir Stamford Raffles to Sir Everard Home (who 

 had made a particular request to that purpose) the account was taken 

 which that comparative Anatomist laid before the Royal Society 

 in the Croonian Lecture, promulgating the existence of nerves in 

 the navel-string and membranes, and those in the Tapir larger than 

 in many other animals, so much so indeed, as to be readily distin- 

 guished by the naked eye."* 



I proceed to a general description of the Rimau-Dahan, to 

 which I shall add some remarks on its manners and history. The 

 specific name of macrocelis has very appropriately been given to it 

 by M. Temminck, who has just recently prepared an account of this 

 animal for publication. On occasion of his visit to England, last 

 April, M. Temminck communicated to me his description, in 

 which the nature of his materials is candidly stated : he was at 

 that time only acquainted with several prepared specimens, all 

 more or less injured or defective, contained in the collections of 

 Paris and Leyd«n. 



The head of the Felis Macrocelis is proportionally small, some- 

 what attenuated, obtuse, and rather high in its vertical dimensions. 

 The upper lip is full and distertded, the lower lip is less swelled 

 and projecting, than in several other species of this genus. The 

 * See p. 582 of the present number. Ed. 



