1860.] JProceedings of tlie Asiatic Societg. 419 



I observe that the Chínese Pangolin is referred to Makis javatqca 

 by Mr. Arthur Adams, in the P. Z. S. for 1839, p. 133 ; and upon 

 re-examination of the fíat skin sent by Mr. Swinhoe, I find that 

 Mr. Adams is right, and that I was incorrect in following the late 

 Dr. Cantor (Ann. Mag. N. II. IX, 274), in assigning it to the 

 Indian M. pentadacttla in p. 93 antea. 



With reference to my remark in J. A. S. XXIX, 493 (note), that 

 I was unaware of the existence of any ' Susá (Platanista) in the 

 Burmese rivers, Lt.-Col. Blake, commanding at Schwe Gyen, writes 

 word — " As regards the Porpoise, I have not been able to procure 

 you one ; but that they do exist in these rivers is certain. I have 

 seen them tumbling over each other in the Irawádi, the Pegu river, 

 and the Sitang, as high up as Sitang." The genus, however, 

 remains to be ascertained, and the habit referred to of " tumbling 

 over each other," is what I have never seen done by the Susú. Per- 

 haps the following species is intended : — 



A small cetal new to the Gangetic streams was brought to me on 

 the 18fch July, 1860. * It proved to be an adult male of — 



Neomeris phocíenoldes, Gray, founded on the Delplúnus pJiocce- 

 noides, Dussumier, MS., Cuvier, B. A. I, 291, and D. et Detphinap- 

 terus metas, Temminck, of the Fauna Japónica (should these prove 

 to be identical, as suggested with mucli probability by Dr. J. E. 

 Gray, JBr. Mus. Catat., Cetácea, p. 80). It appears that a skull in 

 the Paris Museum, marked D. plioccenoides, was brought from Mala- 

 bar by Dussumier in 1837 ; " teeth \^ ;" while the Japanese skull of 

 D. metas in the Leyden Museum has " teeth j--|," according to Dr. 

 Gray. In the Calcutta individual the teeth are xf— yf 5 ^ ne foremost 

 pair in the lower jaw being sitúate underneath the next, and trans- 

 versely, meeting at the tips. The fresh animal had so much the ap- 

 pearance of a young Globicephalus (except in having no dorsal 

 fin), that seeing it under rather adverse circumstances, in a violent 

 downpour of rain, I mistook it for such as I had obtained in the 

 corresponding month of the preceding year ; so, not requiring an- 

 other young Globicephalxjs for the Society's museum, and being 



* On reference to the date of this Eeport, it will be perceived that the above 

 notice of the Neomeris is here interpolated, and riglitly so, as I had the chance 

 of noticmg it on the present suitable occasion. 



