26 REPORT ON ZOOLOGY, MDCCCXLIII. 



Selys Longchamps has obtained a specimen of Suri-.r rl^-mcus from the 

 south of France, from the banks of the Durance (Rev. Zool., p. 131). 

 Eraser has procured from Fernando Po (Ann. Nat. Hist, xii, p. 436) a new- 

 species, S. (Crocidura) poensis. " Obscure fuscus, corpore subtus ciuereo, 

 pedibus nigrcsccntibus ; auribus parvulis distiuctis ; cauda corpore breviore 

 pilis obscuris adpressis et setis longioribus adspersis." Body 3" 3" ; tail 

 1" 10"'. 



A new genus, Otisorex, has been instituted by De Kay. 

 (Nat. Hist, of New York, i, p. 22.) 



Its characters are, " ears large, and projecting out of the fur ; nose elon- 

 gated; tail quadrangular; teeth 32." It is not properly either a genus or a 

 sub-genus, but as it has five upper intermediate teeth, the lower incisors 

 denticulate, the points of the teeth coloured, and the tail without hair, it 

 belongs to the sub-genus Sorex, Wagl. (Amphisorex, Duv.) 



The species referred to this genus is termed by De Kay 0. platyrrhinw ; 

 dark gray, dashed with a dirty red, cinereous beneath; body 2. 5", tail 1. 6". 

 New York. 



Two specimens of Gymnura from Borneo differ from G. Rafflesii in this 

 respect, that their fur, instead of being black, with long white hairs inter- 

 mixed, is entirely of a yellowish white, some of the long hairs only being black. 

 In other respects, the specimens from Borneo and Sumatra agree so closely, 

 that Waterhouse does not consider himself justified in distinguishing them 

 specifically. (Ann. Nat. Hist, xi, p. 529.) 



Hi/lomys suillus has been figured in the 'Nederl. Vcrhandel,' tab. xxv, 

 figs. 4-7 (cranium) ; tab. xxvi (animal) ; ib, tab. xxvi, figs. 2-5. Hyloyalea 

 tana, fermginea, javanica, wAmurina. Moreover, in tab xxvii, the cranium 

 and feet. 



CARNIVORA. 



In the Diet. Univers. d'Hist. Nat. iii, p. 177, Is. 

 Geoffrey has presented some general considerations on the 

 Carnivora. 



With respect to the fundamental type upon which the dental system of 

 the Carnivora is founded, the author would have been enabled to have ex- 

 pressed himself much more concisely, and with more precision, had he 

 availed himself of Wicgmamr s classical work on that subject. The refula- 

 ri(m of .the opinion, that the Carnivoni might be arranged in a continuous 

 series, I hold to be altogether superfluous, as perhaps no zoologist can at the 



