1862.] DR. J. E.GRAY ON A BAT FROM THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. 143 



and Fishes had also been made by those gentlemen, but that it wag 

 unfortunately spoiled, after its arrival at Mauritius, by the disho- 

 nesty of a native servant, who had abstracted the spirit in which 

 the specimens had been preserved. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. Notice of a Species of Lasiurus sent from the Sand- 

 wich Islands by Mr. W. H. Pease. By Dr. J. E. Gray, 

 F.R.S. 



I have just received from Mr. W. H. Pease a specimen of Lasiurus 

 or Hairy-tailed Bat, with the following observation, dated Honolulu, 

 Nov. 20, 1861 : — "I have the pleasure of sending you a specimen 

 of the Bat found on our islands, also a skull separate. It is the only 

 mammal indigenous to our group (of islands). It is quite a curio- 

 sity to our natives, very few of them having ever seen one." 



I have carefully compared the specimen sent by Mr. Pease with 

 the Lasiuri in the British Museum, which have been named by Mr. 

 Robert Tomes in conformity with his paper on the species of the 

 genus, printed in the * Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' for 

 1857. 



I cannot find any distinction between it and the specimen named 

 Lasiurus grayii, described in his paper. (See P. Z. S. 1857, p. 40.) 



The Museum specimen was received from Mr. Bridges, who ob- 

 tained it in Chili. 



There is a second specimen in the Museum Collection named by 

 Mr. R. Tomes L. grayi, which was collected by Mr. John E. Goodsir 

 at Nasqually, Juan de Fuca. I may observe that the Sandwich 

 Islands specimen is of the same size as the specimen from Chili, and 

 considerably smaller than the one from Juan de Fuca, which has the 

 arm-bone nearly a line and a half longer than the Chilian and Sand- 

 wich Islands specimens. 



This Bat being found in the Sandwich Islands is curious, as show- 

 ing the similarity of the fauna in some particulars with that of the 

 Western Coast of America. 



2. Notice of a New Species of Dolphin (Delphinus cata- 

 lania), discovered in North Australia by Mr. John 

 Macgillivray. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., etc. 



Mr. John Macgillivray has sent to Mr. Cuming, who has trans- 

 ferred them to the British Museum Collection, two skulls of a species 

 of Dolphin or Bottlenose, which he regards as probably new. 



These skulls were accompanied by the following notes : — 



" Delphinus, n. s. 



" The larger of the tivo skulls belonged to an individual killed off 

 Cape Melville (within the Great Barrier Reefs), north-east coast of 

 Australia, Sept. 5, 1860. It was 2^ female, 7|^ feet in length ; and 



