294 Messrs. E. W. L. Holt and L. W. Bvrne on a 



TateriUus butleri, sp. n. 



A Taterillus rather smaller and more brightly coloured 

 than T. emini. 



Size rather smaller than emini. General colour above 

 " vinaceous cinnamon," paling on the flanks to " pinkish 

 buff," on the lower back a reddish suffusion amounting almost 

 to hazel ; below pure white. Hands and feet white. Tail 

 coloured like back, paler below, distal half clothed with long 

 (10 mm.) dark brown hairs. 



Skull shorter and broader than in emini. 



Dimensions of the type (recorded by the collector) : — 



Head and body 120 mm. ; tail 150; hind foot 29; ear 18. 



Skull : greatest length 35 ; basilar length 27 ; zygomatic 

 breadth 18; nasals 15; interorbital breadth 6'5 ; brain-case 

 breadth 15 ; diastema 10 ; upper molar series 5 ; anterior 

 palatal foramina 6 ; posterior palatal foramina 4*5 ; bulla? 9. 



Hab. Bahr-el-Ghazal. (Type from Dug-dug.) 



Type. Old female. B.M. no. 8. 4. 2. 17. Collected by 

 Mr. A. L. Butler on 19th January, 1907. 



Mr. Butler sent two series, viz. : one, from Raffile on the 

 Sueh Hiver, due south of Wau, collected in February 1908, 

 which is not distinguishable from T. emini; while the other, 

 obtained in January 1907, at Dug-dug (8° N. and 28° E.) 

 considerably north of Wau, represents the present species. 



XXXII. — Preliminary Diagnosis of a new Stomiatid Fish 

 from South-west of Ireland. By E. W. L. HOLT and 

 L. W. Byrne. 



The specimen before us was taken by Messrs. Farran and 

 Kemp in a shrimp-trawl fished from the ' Helga ' on 12th No- 

 vember, 1809, at Station S.R. 858, 51° 20' N., 11° 56' W., 

 off the south-west coast of Ireland. The soundings were 

 736 fathoms, but the net never touched bottom, and probably 

 did not go deeper than 700 fathoms. 



It is closely allied to the West- Atlantic Grammatostomias 

 dentatus, Goode and Bean (' Oceanic Ichthyology,' 1895), 

 from which, however, as also from any other fish of which 

 we have seen a description, it is at once distinguished by a 

 most conspicuous pale band, which forms a closed loop on 

 the anterior half of each side of the body. The fish has, 



