584 Dr. W. T. Caiman on the 



my paper on British Apodemus (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 July 1914). The whole of the last paragraph on p. 130 

 should be deleted. The young specimen referred to is a 

 house-mouse, the skin figured by accident as that of a young 

 Apodemus in the first list (P. Z. S. 1913, p. 836). Later on, 

 througii misreading a label, I associated the skin with the 

 skull of a young Apodemus. 



LIU. — The Holotype of Nymphon gracilipes, Miers [Pijcno- 

 gonida). By W. T. Oalman, D.Sc. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the British Museum.'i 



Although several writers have discussed Nymphon gracilipes^ 

 Miers, since its first description in 1875, no one appears to 

 have re-examined the holotype, and a good deal of unneces- 

 sary confusion has therefore gathered round the species. As 

 a result of comparison of the holotype with other specimens 

 in the British Museum collection, the following synonymy is 

 proposed : — - 



Nymphon gracilipes^ Miers. 



Nymphon gracilipes, Miers, Ann. k Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) xvi. p. 7G 

 (_l«7r), not later than 1st July); :-'.?Buhm, MH. Akad. Wiss, Berlin 

 1879, p. 170^ pi. i. tigs. 1-1 e ; nee N. f/racilipes, Heller, Deukschr. 

 math.-nat. K. Akad. Wiss. Wien, xxxv. p. 4U, pi. iv. tig. ]5 pi v' 

 tigs. 1 & 2 (1875, later than 19th July). ^ f • 



Nymphon antarcticum, Miers, Phil. 'J'rans. Roy. See. clxviii. p. 211 

 pi. xi. fig. 7 (1879) ; nee N. ant.arcticimi, Pfetier, Jahrb, Hamburo-' 

 Wiss. Anst. vi. -2^^ Halfte, p. 42 (1889), °' 



Nymphon meridionale, Hoek, Rep. Pycuogonida ' Challenfer ' n 4,3 

 pi. iii. tigs, 4-8 (1881). ^ > v , 



Nymj}hon fusctwi, Hoek, t. c. p, 48, pi. iv, figs. 8-11. 



J^escription oj holotype. — The specimen is a female, with 

 genital apertures distinct and ova visible within the femora. 



Trunk elongated and slender, lateral processes separated by 

 much more than their own diameter. (Jephalic segment as 

 long as remaining somites together ; neck about two-fiftlis as 

 wide as anterior dilatation of cephalon. Ocular tubercle not 

 higher than wide, rounded or very obtusely pointed, inclined 

 backward; eyes large. 



Proboscis cylindrical, straight, about two-and-a-half times 

 as long as wide. 



Abdomen elevated, bluntly pointed. 



