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Show 470 MR. G. E. DOBSON ON N E W SPECIES OF BATS. [June 15, Sir Victor Brooke exhibited original drawings by Mr. Wolf of the two species of Koodoo, Tragelaphus strepsiceros and T. imberbis*, and pointed out the distinctions between these two animals. The figure of the latter was taken from a specimen received by Sir Victor Brooke from the Juba river, Somali Coast, which was, no doubt, the true habitat of this species. Mr. Sclater read a memoir on the Rhinoceroses now or "lately living in the Society's Menagerie. This will be published in the Society's ' Transactions.' Prof. Owen, C.B., F.R.S., read the twenty-first of his series of memoirs on the extinct birds of the genus Dinornis of New Zealand, and their allies. The present paper contained an account of some bones of Harpagornis moorei, found in the turbaries of Glenmark, near Christchurch, N e w Zealand. Dr. James Hector, F.R.S., exhibited a specimen of the pelvis of Harpagornis moorei of Haast, which had been found on the surface of the ground under a rock, in the province of Otago, New Zealand, by Mr. A. Low. It had been figured in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vol. vi., and was the property of the Colonial Museum, Wellington, N. Z. Mr. G. Dawson Rowley, F.Z.S., exhibited skins oi Nasiterna geel-vinkiana, 3 and 2 > which, as far as he knew, were new to this country; also an example of N. pygmcea 3, to show the difference between the two species. It appeared that N. geelvinkiana was a trifle smaller than N. pygmaa. The following papers were read ':- 1. Descriptions of new or little-known Species of Bats of the Genus Vesperugo. By G. E . D O B S O N , M.A., M.B., F.L.S., &c. [Received May 28, 1875.] Genus VESPERUGO. Vesperugo, Keys. & Bias. Wiegm. Archiv, 1839, p. 312. a. Ears broad, rhomboidal; tragus expanded above and curved inwards ; phalanges of third and fourth fingers short; a band of hair on under surface of the wing-membrane posterior to the forearm ; wings not extending to the base of the toes ; cal-caneum distinct; premolars .f-^. Subgenus Vesperugo. 1. VESPERUGO STENOPTERUS, n. sp. Crown of the head very slightly elevated, almost level with the face-line ; muzzle broad and flat, labial glandular prominences largely * Strepsiceros imberbis, Blyth, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 51. |