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Show 40 REV. CANON TRISTRAM ON ELIOMYS MELANURUS. [Jan. 16, jection near the base, and covered by a callus extending nearly to the top of the whorl. Length 3^ lines, breadth l-§* line. Hab. " Sow and Pigs " reef, Port Jackson (Brazier). TORNATINA BRENCHLEYI, n. sp. (Plate V. fig. 20.) Shell ovately cylindrical, white, shining, very finely striated by the lines of growth, and exhibiting only faint traces of spiral striation ; whorls 4l 2-, the two apical ones forming a small tubercle, the rest somewhat elevated, turreted, and separated by a deeply but not broadly channelled suture ; aperture narrow above, gradually dilating and curved at the base ; the outer lip not extending to the top of the whorl and slightly contracted in the middle ; the columella furnished with a stout callous plication, which is connected above with the labrum by a thin callous deposit on the whorl. Length 3 lines, breadth 1| line. Hab. Dredged outside Port-Jackson Heads in 10 fathoms water (Brenckley), coll. Brit. Mus. EXPLANATION OF PLATE V. Fig. 1. Purpura (Cronia) anomala, p. 34. 2. Micro voluta australis, p. 35. 3. Columbella (Anachis) speciosa, p. 35. 4. Turbonilla festiva, p. 35. 5. Cinyulina brazieri, p. 35. 6. Apicalia guentheri, p. 35. 7. Cerithiopsis purpurea, p. 36. 8. Conus (Stephanoconus) smithi, p. 36. 9. Drillia cemula, p. 36. 10. Mangelia jacksonensis, p. 37. 11. flavescens, p. 37. 12. Clathurella brenchleyi, p. 37. 13. rufozonata, p. 38. 14. pustulata, p. 38. 15. modesta, p. 38. 16. Cirsonella australis, p. 38. 17. Ethalia brazieri, p. 39. 18. Myonia sinuata, p. 39. 19. Tornatina hofmani, p. 39. 20. brenchleyi, p. 40. ,6. Notes on Eliomys melanurus and on some other Rodents of Palestine. By H. B. T R I S T R A M , F.R.S., C.M.Z.S. (Plate VI.) By far the richest part of the fauna of the desert-regions of Western Asia is its Rodents ; and it is certainly that of which we know the least. Almost all the small mammals of the stony region south of Judaea, of the whole Sinaitic peninsula, and of the vast sandy and rocky expanses which stretch with little variation from Damascus and Moab to Bagdad, are crepuscular or nocturnal in their habits. |