278 



Ungulata, p. 81, dark, orbits and under side dark. There is a female, 

 and a young male, her offspring. 



The two sexes, and the young and the old specimens of each of 

 the species are exactly similar. 



■4. Notice of a New Species of Jaguar from Mazatlan, 



LIVING IN THE GARDENS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. By 



Dr. J. E. Gray, V.P.Z.S., F.R.S., etc. 

 (Mammalia, PI. LVIII.) 



The Society has recently received from Miss Mary Knight a very 

 curious and valuable animal from Mazatlan, which appears not 

 hitherto to have been noticed in the systematic catalogues, which is 

 the more extraordinary, as the zoologists in the United States are 

 now very active in describing the animals of North America, and are 

 evidently renaming several of those which are well known in the 

 European Museums. 



This species greatly resembles the Jaguar in size, character, 

 and marking, having the short legs and short tapering tail of that 

 species ; but it chiefly differs from that animal in the form of the 

 head, which is more elongate, and in the disposition of the spots ; 

 instead of the spots being all placed in rings or roses, as they are 

 usually called, the spots on the front part of the body are single and 

 scattered, and those on the hinder part of the body are alone placed 

 in rings or roses. 



I propose to distinguish the species provisionally with the name 

 of Leopardus Hernandesii, waiting until its skull and other cha- 

 racters can be more carefully examined and compared before I un- 

 dertake to give its proper specific character. 



5. Synopsis of the Families and Genera of Axiferous 

 Zoophytes or Barked Corals. By Dr. John Edward 

 Gray, F.R.S., F.L.S., V.P.Z. and Ent. Soc, etc. 



(Radiata, PI. IX.) 



This group of animals has been called 



Polypiers corticiferes by Lamarck, Hist. A. S. V. ii. 288. 



Polypes corticaux by Cuvier, Regne Anim. iv. 78, 1817. 



Corallea by De Blainville, Diet. Sci. Nat. lxx., et Man. Actinol. 

 501, 1834. 



Gorgoniadce, Johnston, Brit. Zooph. 182, 1838 ; Gray, List of B. 

 Mam. 55, 1848. 



Goryonidce, Dana, Zooph. 637, 1846. 



Cerato-corallia, Ehrenb. Corall. B.M. 1834. 



Coralliadce, Gray, Syn. B.M. 134, 1840. 



This group of animals is easily distinguished from the other zoo- 



