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Show 451 MR. E. R. ALSTON ON ANTECHINOMYS. [June 15, (1846), 2nd edition, p. 12 (1863), nee A. tibetensis, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. 1843, xii. p. 409. "<A. bobac, Schreber' (partim), Blyth, Cat. M a m m . Mus. As. Soc. p. 108 (1863), nee Schreber. " 'A. hemachalanus, Hodgson,' Jerdon, M a m m . India, p. 102 (1867) ; W . Blanf. J. A. S. B. 1875, xliv. pt. 2, p. 122. "A. hodgsoni,Vi. Blanf., Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission, Mammalia, p. 35, note." Prof. Mivart stated that on Tuesday 8th inst. the Secretary of the Botanical Society in the Regent's Park, Mr. W . Sowerby, F.L.S., had his attention called to some small animals living in the tank of the Victoria-regia house. On examination these animals had turned out to be Medusae \ which were thus found to be inhabitants of fresh water, a circumstance which Prof. Mivart believed to be unprecedented. These animals were subsequently found to become torpid, and fall to the bottom almost motionless, when the water had become as cool as 56° Fahr. ; but upon the water becoming warmed up to 85° they became once more as active as ever, vigorously continuing the contractions of the umbrella. Mr. Sowerby had informed Prof. Mivart that they were rapidly reproducing young like themselves. The following papers were read :- 1. On Antechinomys and its Allies. By E D W A R D R. ALSTON, Sec.L.S., F.Z.S., &c [Eeceived May 29, 1880.] (Plate XLV.) In March last my friend Mr. J. W. Clark asked me to determine some spirit-specimens of Mammals belonging to the Museum of the University of Cambridge. The series included a collection of small Australian Marsupials, and among these was one which puzzled me not a little. Its long Chceropus-hke limbs and bushy tail gave it the aspect of a member of the family Peramelidae, yet it evidently belonged to the Dasyuridse. It was only when Mr. Gerrard snowed me the type of Phascologale lanigera, Gould2, in the British Museum that I discovered its identity with that species ; and I think that no one who compares the figure here given (Plate XLV.) with Mr. Gould's illustration will be suprised that I failed to recognize the latter. In a paper communicated to this Society by Mr. G. Krefft, 1 Since named by Mr. E. Eay Lankester Craspedacusta sowerbii, 'Nature,' vol. xxii. p. 147 (June 17th, 1880), and by Prof. Allman Limnocodium victoria, Proc. Linn. Soc. [Zool.] vol. xv. p. 131. 2 M a m m . Austr. i. pl. xxxiii. (1863, descr. orig.). |