BY W. A. TIASWELL, M.A., B.Sc. 763 



mobile finger compressed, slightly hooked at the end, with a 

 large recurved tooth on its trenchant border at the base. Length 

 1£ in. Carapace with longitudinal stripes of brownish purple, 

 with a narrow mesial white line, which is continued on the two 

 first abdominal segments ; at the sides three short white markings. 

 Abdomen with broad brownish purple and narrow white lines ; 

 bases of antennao purple ; longitudinal stripes of purple on the 

 ambulatory legs. Large hand marked with longitudinal lines 

 of light brown, bordered by narrow darker bands. 



Dredged in a few fathoms of water in Albany Passage, near 

 Cape York, Queensland, during the cruise of H.M.S. " Alert," 

 in those waters. They were invariably found clinging to the 

 arms of a species of Comatulid to which their markings gave them 

 a general resemblance. Other commensals of these Comatulids 

 were Galathea deflexifrons, and an undescribed species of Cymothoid 

 the latter usually esconcing itself in the stomach of its host, its 

 head projecting out of the mouth. 



Description of a supposed New Species of Bat from the 

 interior of new south wales. 



By E. P. Bamsay, F.L.S., &c, &c. 



Mr. fSapalotis ?) Tompsoni, sp. nov. 



General colour above, light grey, with a fulvescent tinge, 

 pencilled with black from the forehead to the tail ; face grey, 

 whiskers long, black, the lower hairs nearest the angle of the 

 mouth white ; ears naked, (under the lens clothed with minute 

 greyish short hairs) ; down the back and sides the fur is mixed 

 with long black hairs, which gives a rather harsh feeling when 

 touched; from the throat to the belly and inside of the legs and 

 arms to the root of the tail, the fur is softer and quite white ; the 



