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August 25, 1835. 



William Yarrell, Esq., in the Chair. 



A letter was read, addressed to the Secretary by Captain Manby, 

 R.N., dated Yarmouth, Aug. 22, 1835, and announcing the strand- 

 ing of an enormous whale, near Southwold in Suffolk, on the 19th 

 of August. Captain Manby states that it is of the species denomi- 

 nated by Linneeus, Balcena Physalus. 



Drawings were exhibited of three Fishes captured at Port Praya, 

 by Capt. P. P. King, R.N., Corr. Memb. Z. S. They were commu- 

 nicated by Mr. Broderip. They comprised representations of Ser- 

 ranus tceniops, Cuv. &Val. ; Sargiis Jasciatus,'Eo'c.; and an Acan- 

 thurus, apparently hitherto undescribed, the 



AcANTHURUs KiNGii. Ac.purpureo-virescens, supra lineis azureis 

 undulntis interruptis numerosis longitudinnliter notatus ; oper- 

 culorum margine, pinnce pectoralis macnld, dorsaiis bast, macu- 

 luqiie ovali spinam caudalem cingente nifescenti-Jlavis : pinnd 

 caudali lunatd. 



D. JO + 27. A. 3 + 25. P. 17. V. 1 -|- 5. C. 16. 



Long. tot. 121- unc, alt. corporis, 4|-; \ong.radiorum piniice dor- 

 saiis, H; lat. inter oculos, 1, ad pinnas pectorales, 1|. 



Besides the markings enumerated, there is a blue line at the 

 lower part of the soft portion of the dorsal fin, separating it from 

 the reddish yellow streak of its base. The branchial rays are red- 

 dish yellow. 



The teeth are eighteen above and sixteen below : they are cre- 

 nated and closely set. The scales are small, ovate, square at the 

 outer margin, and minutely serrated. 



The following Notes, by Mr. Owen, on the anatomy of the Kin. 

 Icajou, Cercoleptes caudivolvidus , 111., were read. 



" The anatomy of an animal which is the sole representative of its 

 genus, and which, in its external form and habits, manifests a rela- 

 tionship with genera belonging to two different orders of its class, 

 must always be a desirable addition to zoological science. The 

 death of the KinJcajou, which has been for the last two or three 

 years in the Menagerie, has afforded the opportunity of determining 

 the natural affinities of a somewhat anomalous form, and of thus 

 compensating in some degree the loss of a living specimen, by the 



