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rufescente ; auribus acutis.patulis, erectis, ad latus exterius etnar' 

 ginatis, et lobo rotundato accessorio instructis ; prosthemate du- 

 plice ; anteriore bidentato cum scypho parvulo ad basin anticam, 

 h6c ferro-equino membt-anaceo circumdato ; prosthemate posteriore 

 ad basin transversim sinuato, ad apicem acuta ; ferro-equino mem- 

 branaceo, lata, margine libera antice bifida ; pallice brevi, gracili, 

 in membrand subtiis per dimidium inclusa : ungue parvulo ; anti- 

 brachiis robustis ; cruribus gracilibus ; patagiis nigricantibus. 



imc. lin. I 



Longitude corporis cum capite 1 4^ ;',^<•»^i~f•'■^^ f^ 



. caud(B ' 9 3 ;. V Vz ^. > 



■ aurium 7i 



— - antibrachii 1 7| 



cruris 8 



calcanei , 4^ 



Prosthematis longitudo 2 



Alarum amplitudo 9 



Habitat in Insulsl Fernando Po. 



" This beautiful little species of Bat is a genuine Rhinalophus ; the 

 nasal appendages consist of a horse-shoe, a crest, and an elevated 

 leaf. The horse-shoe is broad with indications of a double furrow; 

 its outer margin is free and bifid anteriorly. In its centre is placed 

 a little cup-like depression with an elevated rim, from the back of 

 which rises a bifid crest not much elevated : the larger apex is the 

 posterior of the two. On each side of this crest and behind it, the 

 skin continued from the horse-shoe, and forming the base of the leaf, 

 is furrowed by two deep but unequal sulci, with a marked posterior 

 ridge, elevated across the base of the leaf, which latter ends in a 

 short acute lanceolate point ; posteriorly it is covered with short hairs, 

 anteriorly it is nearly naked. Its length is two lines. The ears are 

 large, broad, and pointed ; the outer margin is emarginate, and passes 

 into a large rounded accessory lobe, closing the ear anteriorly. The 

 anti-brachia are short, the thumbs small, the tibia slender. 



" The fur is soft and delicate, and of a fine light or rufous chestnut, 

 a little darker on the middle of the back ; the wings are blackish. 



" I have ventured to name this species in honour of the late enter- 

 prising, but unfortunate Mr. Lander, during whose expedition it was 

 taken at Fernando Po." 



Mr. Martin also communicated to the Meeting the following no- 

 tice of a new species of Hedgehog. 



" Among the specimens of Natural History, from the neighbourhood 

 of Trebizond, presented to the Society by Keith Abbot, Esq., is a 

 species of Hedgehog, decidedly differing from our well-known British 

 species, and appearing to be at present undescribed. It is much 

 smaller than the Erinaceus Eiiropaus, measuring from the tip of the 

 muzzle to the root of the tail, over the arch of the back, only 9^ Inches. 

 The spines advance upon the forehead, and overshadow the eyes ; 

 the general colour presented by the spines ' en masse' is mahogany 



