1862.] DR.J,E.GRAY ON A BAT FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS, 143 
and Fishes had also been made by those gentlemen, but that it was 
unfortunately spoiled, after its arrival at Mauritius, by the disho- 
nesty of a native servant, who had abstracted the spirit in which 
the specimens had been preserved. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Noricr or A Species or LASIURUS SENT FROM THE SAND- 
wicH Istanps By Mr. W. H. Pease. By Dr. J. E. Gray, 
F.R.S. 
I have just received from Mr. W. H. Pease a specimen of Lasiurus 
or Hairy-tailed Bat, with the following observation, dated Honolulu, 
Nov, 20, 1861 :—‘‘I have the pleasure of sending you a specimen 
of the Bat found on our islands, also a skull separate. It is the only 
mammal indigenous to our group (of islands). It is quite a curio- 
sity to our natives, very few of them having ever seen one.” 
I have carefully compared the specimen sent by Mr. Pease with 
the Lasiuri in the British Museum, which have been named by Mr. 
Robert Tomes in conformity with his paper on the species of the 
genus, printed in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society’ for 
1857. 
~ I cannot find any distinction between it and the specimen named 
Lasiurus grayii, described in his paper. (See P. Z. 8S. 1857, p. 40.) 
The Museum specimen was received from Mr. Bridges, who ob- 
tained it in Chili. 
There is a second specimen in the Museum Collection named by 
Mr. R. Tomes L. grayi, which was collected by Mr. John E. Goodsir 
at Nasqually, Juan de Fuca. I may observe that the Sandwich 
Islands specimen is of the same size as the specimen from Chili, and 
considerably smaller than the one from Juan de Fuca, which has the 
arm-bone nearly a line and a half longer than the Chilian and Sand- 
wich Islands specimens. 
This Bat being found in the Sandwich Islands is curious, as show- 
ing the similarity of the fauna in some particulars with that of the 
Western Coast of America, 
2. Norice or a New Species or Dotpuin (DeLpHINus caTa- 
LANIA), DISCOVERED IN Nortru Avustrauia By Mr, JoHNn 
Macerituivray. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., ere. 
Mr. John Macgillivray has sent to Mr. Cuming, who has trans- 
ferred them to the British Museum Collection, two skulls of a species 
of Dolphin or Bottlenose, which he regards as probably new. 
These skulls were accompanied by the following notes :— 
“ DELPHINUS, 0.8. 
“ The larger of the two skulls belonged to an individual killed off 
Cape Melville (within the Great Barrier Reefs), north-east coast of 
Australia, Sept. 5, 1860. It was a female, 7} feet in length; and 
