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Show 1868.] DR. J. E. GRAY ON PTERONURA SANDBACHII. 61 MACACUS LASIOTUS. The Hairy-eared Macaque. (Pl. VI.) Tail none; ears ovate, prominent, exposed, covered with hair; fur yellowish olive, very minutely punctulated by the small sub-terminal yellow rings ; of the rump and outer side of the thighs reddish ; of the face, cheeks, chest, front of the shoulders, and under part of the body grey ; the skin of the hinder part of the body near the callosities crimson; the crown covered with short erect or reflexed hairs, with a few blackish hairs projecting forwards over the eyebrows ; the chest and under part of the body covered with abundance of hairs ; skin of face whitish flesh-coloured, with a small red naked spot at the outer hinder angle of each eye ; hand covered with hair, blackish. Hab. China. This fine Ape was presented to the Society on the 15th instant by Miss Charlotte Alice Winkworth, of 65 Gloucester Crescent, Regent's Park. Miss Winkworth received it from a relative in Shanghai, who sent the following account of the animal: - " The Ape is about three or four years old, a fine male ; he comes from the province of Szechuen, in China, aud is probably the first conveyed home from the interior of China. In the winter he has a splendid coat of rich brown hair, very long and thick ; and is very fierce and powerful." The canines are either not much developed, or they have been broken out, perhaps in some encounter with the wires of his den. 3. Observations on the Margined-tailed Otter {Pteronura sandbachii). By Dr. J. E . G R A Y , F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., & c (Plate VII.) During the first visit of the British Association to Liverpool in 1837 I observed a depressed-tailed very large-footed Otter in the Museum of the Royal Institution of that town, which had been collected in Demerara by Mr. Edmondson, and presented to the Museum by my friend Mr. Sandbach. I brought it before the Natural-History Section, and named it Pteronura sandbachii. A description of the specimen was published in ' Loudon's Maga-gine of Natural History' for 1837, i. 580. Mr. Gould kindly made m e a drawing of the specimen during the meeting, which was engraved, with some notes on the genus, in the ^mials and Magazine of Natural History' for 1839, ii. 285, t. 14. This plate is copied in Wiegmann's 'AATCIUV ' for 1838, p. 392, t. 10 (which did not appear until late in 1839). Professor Wiegmaun at first doubted the distinctness of the genus from Enhydra, but after he received the plate admitted that the genera were distinct, lie proposed to alter the name of the genus from Pteronura to Pterura. |