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colouring, he stated his conviction that the Bombay animal belongs 

 to the same species with those from Travancore ; agreeing, as they 

 do, in the possession of the remarkable dark dash along the sides of 

 the neck, in the broad dark tip of the tail and the uniform red of 

 its base, and in the general proportions of the body. 

 He characterized the species in question as the 



Herpestes viTTicoLLis. Herp. gr'isea uut Tuhra ; caudd ad basin 

 rubra ad apicem late nigra ; artuhus vittdque ab aure ad scapu- 

 lam ductd nigris. 



Long, corporis cum capite 22 unc. ; caudce (sine pilis), 12 J. 



Hub. in Indias Orientalis partibus Austrum spectantibus. 



Mr. Bennett stated his intention of giving a detailed description 

 of this new species in some " Observations on the genus Herpestes, 

 111.," which he was about to prepare, and in which he proposed to 

 advert to the other Ichneumons in the Society's possession. He 

 added, that a living individual of Herp. fasciatus had lately been, for 

 a short time, in the Society's Menagerie, on its way to the collection 

 of the President, the Earl of Derby, at Knowsley. 



A skin was subsequently exhibited of a Mammiferous animal, 

 which had lately been added to the Society's collection, and \vhich 

 Mr. Bennett regarded as the representative of a second species of 

 his genus Lagotis. He pointed out the marks by which it is distin- 

 guished from the species on which the genus was originally proposed 

 by him, and which was described in detail in the ' Transactions ', 

 vol. i. p. 25, and proposed for it, in allusion to one of the most 

 striking of them, the name of Lag. palUpes. Its occurrence, he re- 

 marked, renders it necessary to characterize the two species of the 



Genus Lagotis. 



1. Lagotis Cuvieri, Benn. Lag. auriculis caput longitudine 

 cequantibus ; vellere longiore ; caudce setis albidisque nigrisque ; 

 pedibus cinereis. 



Long, corporis cum capite 16 unc. ; caudce (praeter pilos). 111; 



auriculce, 2^; pedis postici, 3^. 

 Hab. in Peruvia ? 



2. Lagotis PALLiPEs. Lag. auriculis capite subbrevior'tbus; vellere 

 brevi ; caudce setis ferrugineis ; ventre pedibusquej'ulvescentibus, 

 his pallidioribus. 



Long, corporis- cum capite 15 unc; caudce (praeter pilos), 11 ; 



auricula, 2\ ; pedis postici, 3. 

 Hab. in Chiliae montosis. 



Mr. Bennett stated his intention of preparing, in consequence of 



