Miscellaneous. 21 L 



buds ; and the young thus produced propagate after a certain time 

 in the same manner. While they are adding to their number by pro- 

 pagation, they are also suffering loss by death and other causes. These 

 animals are voracious, and readily seize and swallow univalve or bi- 

 valve mollusca, or a crustacean, as large or even larger than their 

 own bodies, and after retaining them in the stomach, generally for 

 more than twenty-four hours, they reject them. They also not un- 

 frequently swallow one of their neighbours, and the retention in the 

 stomach for some time terminates in the destruction and digestion 

 of the inclosed animal. When they seize a molluscan too large to 

 be swallowed, they retain it firmly embraced by the tentacula, and 

 insert their elongated mouth into the interior of the shell ; and in 

 like manner they keep dead articulated animals, too large to be 

 swallowed, in their tentacula for more than a day, and in all pro- 

 bability extract nourishment, by acting upon them with their elon- 

 gated mouth. 



The accidental delay in the publishing of the * Transactions' of the 

 Society for this month enables me to add, that up to this period 

 (27th July) these animals have not yet divided into young Medusae 

 — that they have only just ceased to propagate by buds and stolons — 

 that they appear to be perfectly healthy — and that on the 11th in- 

 stant a number of fresh specimens were obtained from the sea, ad- 

 hering to the lower surface of two stones, near the place where the 

 others were found last September. — From the Transactions of the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society, St. Andrews. 



New species of Mammalia. By J. E. Gray, F.R.S. 



Herpestes semitorquatus. Dark brown, yellow grisled ; sides and 

 beneath rufous ; feet blacker ; tail paler ; lips thin ; throat and 

 lower part of the side of the neck rufous, separated from the colour 

 of the upper part of the neck by a well-defined straight line ; fur 

 rather rigid, with a fine brown undercoat ; longer hair of the back 

 dark brown, with a broad reddish yellow subterminal band ; of the 

 sides bright red-bay ; of tail pale yellow, with a broad dark band and 

 yellowish tip. Length : head and body 18*6 ; tail 11 inches. 



Hab. Borneo. Sent to the British Museum by H. Lowe, Esq., in 

 company with Herpestes brachyurus. 



Felis Charltonii. This species is very like Felis marmoratus, but 

 brighter and the dark spots rather differently disposed. 



It comes from Darjeeling, in continental India. 



It is curious to have two species so nearly allied from such differ- 

 ent parts of Asia. 



Pteromys punctatus. Bright bay ; back ornamented with white 

 spots. 



Hab. Malacca. 



This is the only species of the genus that has any white on its 

 back. Its skull is much smaller than the other Asiatic Pteromys. 



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