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The following papers were read: — 



1, Note on the Japanese Bear. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., 

 Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. 



(Plate XXXII.) 



At the meeting of this Society on the 24 th of June last, I called 

 the attention of the inemhers present to two Bears from Japan, de- 

 posited in the Menagerie by Capt. Ward*. I remarked that the 

 Bear of Japan was stated in Temminck and Siebold's ' Fauna Japo- 

 nica' to be referable to the well-known Indian Ursus torquatus (sive 

 tibetanus), but that these animals were evidently of a different spe- 

 cies ; and I therefore suggested that they should be called Ursus JU' 

 ponicus, and promised further particulars concerning them at a sub- 

 sequent meeting. 



I have, however, been informed by Dr. Schlegel of Leyden that, 

 since the publication of the portion of the ' Fauna Japonica' relating 

 to the Mammals, he has discovered the error of referring the Ja- 

 panese Bear to Ursus torquatus, and has in his ' Manual of Zoology'^', 

 published in 1857, proposed to bestow upon it the very appellation 

 ( Uj'sus japonicus) that I had selected as most appropriate for the 

 species. 



The Japanese Bear, in fact, seems almost intermediate between 

 Ursus torquatus and Ursus americanus. Our specimens, the largest 

 of which must be neavl}^ full-grown (for the dentition, except the last 

 pair of molars, is perfect), are barely two-thirds of the size of Ursus 

 torquatus. The very distinct white gular band of Ursus torquatus 

 is only represented in Ursus japonicus by a slight undefined A^hitisli 

 line, which seems likely to wholly disappear. The muzzle is also 

 much blacker in U. japonicus than in U. torquatus; and, instead of 

 the prominent bushy cheeks of U. torquatus, the Japanese species 

 appears to have the face clothed only with short hair, as in Ursus 

 americanus. 



Mr. Wolf's figure (Plate XXXII.) will further assist in the identi- 

 fication of this species, it being obviously impossible to draw up very 

 accurate characters from living specimens. 



2. Description of some New Species of Mammalia, 

 By Dr. John Edward Gray, F.R.S., F.L^S., etc. 



(Plates XXXIII., XXXIV., XXXV.) 



Among some Mammalia AA'hich Mr. A. R. Wallace has lately sent 

 to the British Museum, which he collected in Morty Island in 1861, 

 are two species of a frugivorous Bat, which does not appear to have 

 been hitherto registered in the Catalogue. This Bat may be easily 

 known from all the other Cynopteri by the extraordinary length of 



* Vide supra, p. 185. 



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