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Show 1878.] MR. G. E. DOBSON ON MYXOPODA AURITA. 871 69. CRENELLA BARBATA. Modiolaria barbata, Angas, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 911, pl. 44. fig. 12. St. Vincent's Gulf &c.; also Botany Bay, New S. Wales. 70. TRIGONIA MARGARITACEA. Trigonia margaritacea, Lam., Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. 1. fig. 3. Port Lincoln; dead valves washed upon Semaphore Beach (Bednall). Also Tasmania. 71. PECTUNCULUS LATICOSTATUS. P. laticostatus, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. de l'Astrol.; Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. 2. fig. 8 a, b. Cape Jervis; and Hallet's Cove, St. Vincent's Gulf (Tate); Badger Island, Bass's Straits (Tate). New Zealand. 72. LIMOPSIS MACGILLIVRAYI. Limopsis macgillivrayi, A. Ad. in Coll. Cumiug. Guichen Bay (Bednall). Semifossil at McDonnell Bay (Tate). 73. NUCULA MICANS. Nucula micans, Angas, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 864, pl. 54. fig. 16. Shell-sand, St. Vincent's Gulf (Tate). 74. PLACUNANOMIA (MONIA) IONE. Placunanomia ione, Gray, P.Z.S. 1849, p. 123. Henley Beach ; Marino (Bednall). Common in New South Wales. 75. KRAUSSIA LAMARCKIANA. Kraussia lamarckiana, Davidson, P.Z.S. 1852, p. 80, pl. 14. figs. 22, 23. St. Vincent's Gulf (Tate). Common in N. S. Wales and Tasmania, also New Zealand. 11. Notes on Myxopoda aurita, Miln.-Edw, By G. E. DOBSON, M.A., M.B., &c. [Received October 21, 1878.] Among the manv valuable specimens lately added to the collection of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle at Paris, perhaps the most remarkable is that of a very peculiar species of Bat from Madagascar, described by M . Alphonse Milne-Edwards1 under the appropriate name of Myxopoda2 aurita. During a short visit to Paris last month I was enabled, through the kindness of M. Milne-Edwards, to examine the type of this most interesting species, of which the following is a description. 1 In Bull- Soc. Philom. de Paris, June 22, 1878. 2 uvta, mucus; ivovs, pes. 57* |
