1862.] DR. J, E. GRAY ON NEW MAMMALIA. 261 
The following papers were read :— 
1. Nore on THE Japanese Bear. By P. L. Scrater, M.A., 
Pu.D., F.R.S., Secretary TO THE SOCIETY. 
(Plate XXXII.) 
At the meeting of this Society on the 24th of June last, I called 
the attention of the members present to two Bears from Japan, de- 
posited in the Menagerie by Capt. Ward*. I remarked that the 
Bear of Japan was stated in Temminck and Siebold’s ‘ Fauna Japo- 
nica’ to be referable to the well-known Indian Ursus torquatus (sive 
tibetanus), but that these animals were evidently of a different spe- 
cies ; and I therefore suggested that they should be called Ursus ja- 
ponicus, and promised further particulars concerning them at a sub- 
sequent meeting. 
I have, however, been informed by Dr. Schlegel of Leyden that, 
since the publication of the portion of the ‘ Fauna Japonica’ relating 
to the Mammals, he has discovered the error of referring the Ja- 
panese Bear to Ursus torquatus, and has in his ‘ Manual of Zoology’+, 
published in 1857, proposed to bestow upon it the very appellation 
(Ursus japonicus) that I had selected as most appropriate for the 
species. 
The Japanese Bear, in fact, seems almost intermediate between 
Ursus torquatus and Ursus americanus. Our specimens, the largest 
of which must be nearly full-grown (for the dentition, except the last 
pair of molars, is perfect), are barely two-thirds of the size of Ursus 
torquatus. The very distinct white gular band of Ursus torquatus 
is only represented in Ursus japonicus by a slight undefined whitish 
line, which seems likely to wholly disappear. The muzzle is also 
much blacker in U. japonicus than in U. torquatus; and, instead of 
the prominent bushy cheeks of U. torquatus, the Japanese species 
appears to have the face clothed only with short hair, as in Ursus 
americanus. 
Mr. Wolf’s figure (Plate XXXII.) will further assist in the identi- 
fication of this species, it being obviously impossible to draw up very 
accurate characters from living specimens. 
2. DrescripTION oF somE New Species or MAMMALIA, 
By Dr. Joun Epwarp Gray, F.R.S., F.L.S., ere. 
(Plates XXXIIJ., XXXIV., XXXV.) 
Among some Mammalia which Mr. A. R. Wallace has lately sent 
to the British Museum, which he collected in Morty Island in 1861, 
are two species of a frugivorous Bat, which does not appear to have 
been hitherto registered in the Catalogue. This Bat may be easily 
known from all the other Cynopteri by the extraordinary length of 
* Vide supra, p. 186. 
t Handleiding tot de Beoefning der Dierkunde, pt. 1, p. 42. 
