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There are also specimens of amygdaloid, (containing worn crystals of felspar,) 

 and of a fine plastic micacious clay, from below the sandstone of Chirra Punji. 



2. A stuffed specimen of a species of F.elis, native of the Midnapur jungles, 

 from Dr. J. Pearson. 



It is classed and described in the following manner, by Doctor Pearson : 



" Trib. 



Digitigrades. 



Cur. 



Fam. 



Felinee. 





Gen. 



Felis. 



Lin. 



Sp. 



Kutas. 



Mihi. 



Gen. Ch. — Incisors f ; canines \\ ; cheek teeth |f : the fourth in the upper 

 jaw transversely situated. Jaws short. Toes on the anterior extremities, five ; 

 on the posterior, four, armed with retractile claws. 



(Sp. Ch. — Ground colour, greyish brown, approaching to rufous at the sides of 

 the abdomen, and neck, where it unites with the white of those parts ; and 

 marked with darker stripes and bands, which are more or less obscure. Inferior 

 surface, chin, and throat, white. Ears, white within ; externally rufous ; with 

 an irregular dark patch at their lower part, tipped with black, and slightly 

 pencilled at the tips. Labial whiskers, some entirely white, and a few all black ; 

 whilst others are black for a very small space at the base, the remainder being 

 white. Tail, short, grey, annulated with black, from the middle to the extremity. 

 Legs, greyish, rufous above, and rufous below ; with bands of dark-grey, which 

 become on the inner side of the elbow and fore arm almost black. Tarsus, meta- 

 tarsus, and toes, rufous, darker behind, and almost black at the heels ; length from 

 the tip of the nose to the insertion of the tail, two feet two inches ; length of tail, 

 ten inches. Height, at the shoulders, one foot two inches ; posteriorly, one foot 

 four inches. Caudal vertebrae, twenty. 



The size of the Kutas is that of a large Chacal, though not so robust as that ani- 

 mal. The darker shades on the sides appear as though they had been less obscure 

 in the youth of the animal, and gradually fading, become broken stripes and even 

 spots, in their progress to a total obliteration ; a circumstance which, as there is 

 reason to believe, occurs in more than one species of this family. My specimen is 

 a full grown, but not an old, male ; the female, and the young, I have never seen. 



I have looked through a list of the species described in the Monograph of the 

 Felinae, by Mr. Temminck, without being able to satisfy myself of that distinguish- 

 ed zoologist having met with the animal I now present to the notice of the Socie- 

 ty : nor can I discover it in the Synopsis, appended to Griffith's translation of th e 

 Regne Animal ; and therefore I have ventured to designate it by the name which is 

 given to it by the natives of Midnapur. The Felis Chaus, Bruce's booted Lynx, 

 would appear to differ in colour, and length of tail ; and the Kutas is destitute of 

 the black at the hinder part of the leg, which forms so distinguished a feature in that 

 animal, having merely an approach to it, in a dark shade of rufous brown. The 

 Bengal Carocal, of Edwards, differs still more in colour and length of tail. Should, 

 however, the Kutas prove to be identical with any known species of Lynx, my 

 name can readily be dropped." 



3. A series of the land and fresh water shells of the Doab, and of the Gangetic 

 provinces, presented by W. B. Benson, Esq., C. S. 



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