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Show 1869.] MR. E. BLYTH ON T W O N E W ANTELOPES. 51 ** Frond broad, folded together, more or less completely funnel-shaped. Basta. . 2. IANTHELLA BASTA. B.M. Sponge broad, the sides folded together, leaving an open space below near the root, forming an incomplete funnel, which is more or less distorted and divided ; the network slender. Basta marina, Rumph. Herb. Amb. vi. t. 89. f. 1. Spongia basta, Pallas, Zoop. 309; Esper, Zooph. t. 25 ; Lamk. Ann. Mus. xx. 442 ; Lamx. 11, f. 57. Spongia flabelliformis, E. W . Gray, B. M. 1804, from spec, in Mus. Sloane, no. 996. Hab. Indian Ocean, Quail Island; found dead attached to conglomerate ironstone (Rayner). 3. IANTHELLA HOMEI. B.M. Sponge fan-shaped, expanded laterally, the sides bent up, with a thick single stem ; fibres of the network thick, strong. Hab. Australia (Capt. Sir Everard Home). This chiefly differs from I. basta in the network appearing to be thicker and stronger. It is only a young, partly developed specimen, and may become more funnel-shaped when it grows older. 8. Notice of two overlooked Species of Antelope. By E D W A R D BLYTH. In or about the year 1840 the Society possessed a fine male specimen of the true Antilope bubalis of Pallas, of which individual I still possess a series of sketches or studies from life. The skin of it is now mounted in the British Museum. I have lately seen one exactly like it in the Antwerp Zoological Gardens; and there is an admirable portrait of one of the same kind in the picture-gallery at The Hague, in the same apartment (or rather landing-place in the Museum) in which is exhibited the celebrated life-size portrait of a young bull by Paul Potter. Again, the same species is figured and described by Buffon as la Bubale (Hist. Nat. tome xiii. p. 294, t. 37), and its skull, together with that of the Hartbeest (Bos-elaphus caama), showing the considerable difference of size of the two, in the following plate. It is also figured and described by M M . Cuvier and Geoffroy St.-Hilaire. This animal is much smaller than the Hartbeest, and it is of a uniform bright chestnut-colour, without any markings on the feet. It is the particular species figured and described as the Bubalis of North Africa in every work that I have seen which treats of the animal. At the same time that the Society possessed the living example before referred to, I saw with Mr. Warwick, of the Surrey Zoological Gardens, the perfect skin of what I at once recognized to be that of a distinct though closely allied species, differing from the true B. |
