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** Frond broad, folded together, more or less completely funnel- 
shaped. Basta. 
2. IANTHELLA BASTA. B.M. 
Sponge broad, the sides folded together, leaving an open space 
below near the root, forming an incomplete funnel, which is more or 
less distorted and divided; the network slender. 
Basta marina, Rumph. Herb. Amb. vi. t. 89. f. 1. 
Spongia basta, Pallas, Zoop. 309; Esper, Zooph. t. 25; Lamk. 
Ann. Mus, xx. 442; Lamx. 11, f. 57. 
Spongia flabelliformis, EK. W. Gray, B. M. 1804, from spec. in 
Mus. Sloane, no. 996. 
Hab. Indian Ocean, Quail Island; found dead attached to con- 
glomerate ironstone (Rayner). 
3. IANTHELLA HOMEI. B.M. 
Sponge fan-shaped, expanded laterally, the sides bent up, with a 
thick single stem; fibres of the network thick, strong. 
Hab. Australia (Capt. Sir Everard Home). 
This chiefly differs from J. basta in the network appearing to be 
thicker and stronger. It is only a young, partly developed specimen, 
and may become more funnel-shaped when it grows older. 
8. Notice of two overlooked Species of Antelope. 
By Epwarp Brytu. _ 
In or about the year 1840 the Society possessed a fine male spe- / 
cimen of the true Antilope bubalis of Pallas, of which individual I 
still possess a series of sketches or studies from life. The skin of it 
is now mounted in the British Museum. I have lately seen one 
exactly like it in the Antwerp Zoological Gardens; and there is an 
admirable portrait of one of the same kind in the picture-gallery at 
The Hague, in the same apartment (or rather landing-place in the 
Museum) in which is exhibited the celebrated life-size portrait of a 
young bull by Paul Potter. Again, the same species is figured and 
described by Buffon as /a Bubale (Hist. Nat. tome xiii. p. 294, 
t. 37), and its skull, together with that of the Hartbeest (Bos- 
elaphus caama), showing the considerable difference of size of the 
two, in the following plate. It is also figured and described by MM. 
Cuvier and Geoffroy St.-Hilaire. This animal is much smaller than 
the Hartbeest, and it is of a uniform bright chestnut-colour, without 
any markings on the feet. It is the particular species figured and 
described as the Budalis of North Africa in every work that I have 
seen which treats of the animal. 
At the same time that the Society possessed the living example 
before referred to, I saw with Mr. Warwick, of the Surrey Zoological 
Gardens, the perfect skin of what I at once recognized to be that of 
a distinct though closely allied species, differing from the true B. 
