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specimen, which forms part of the collection of the Army Medical 

 Department at Chatham, was brought." — E. B. 



Mr. Gray exhibited various species of the Linnean genus Venus, 

 in illustration of the subdivisions into other generic groups which 

 appeared to him to be, in the present state of the science, valid. 

 He pointed out the characters of these several genera ; referred to 

 the types of each ; and noticed many hitiierto undescribed species 

 contained either in his own collection or in that of the British Mu- 

 seum. 



Mr. Bennett called the attention of the Society to a Paradoxure 

 now living at the Gardens, which he regarded as previously unde- 

 scribed. He characterized it as the 



Paradoxurus Grayi. Par. vellere denso, subcequali ; olivaceo- 

 Jhlvescens cinereo tinctus, subtus pallidior ; facie, auriculis , pedi- 

 busque nigris, illius vitta nasali, Ja&cid abbreviata suboculari, . 

 Jronteque cinereis. 



Long, corporis cum capite, circiter 20 unc. ; caiidcB paullo major. 



Hab. in India. 



The fur of the animal, unlike that of Par. Ti/pus, F. Cuv., and 

 some other closely related species, is nearly of equal length, and is 

 dense and in some degree woolly. Its colour above is a light ful- 

 vous brown, showing in certain lights a strong cinereous tinge, 

 owing to the black tips of many of the hairs. Beneath it is lighter, 

 and has a more cinereous tinge. The limbs are ash-coloured and 

 deeper in intensity towards the feet, which are black. The tail is 

 throughout of the same colour with the body. The ears are 

 rounded, covered with hairs, and nearly black. The face is black, 

 with the exception of the forehead, of a longitudinal dash down the 

 middle of the nose, and of a blotch-like short oblique band under 

 each eye ; these markings being grey. There are no traces of lon- 

 gitudinal bands or spots on the body. 



The separate hairs are dusky at the base and pale yellowish in 

 the middle : they are tipped with black. 



The tail is constantly twisted in the manner in which it is occa- 

 sionally borne by Par. Typus, and cannot be rendered straight. 



As the specimen was purchased of a dealer, the precise part of 

 India in which it was captured cannot be ascertained. 



