242 Miscellaneous. 



I propose to name the animal Othelosoma Siimondsil. 



In the smaller specimen there is a small conical prominence in 

 the middle line of the foot, about one-sixth of the entire length from 

 the caudal extremity. This may be the vent or generative organ. 

 I cannot find any indication of a similar organ in the larger speci- 

 men ; but that is, unfortunately, broken across in the part where it 

 ought to be situated. This may be the same as the minute aperture 

 which occurs near the middle of the body in the foot of Dunlojiia. 



Othelosoma is very like Dunlopia, or the land-leech of Ceylon and 

 India, in colour, texture, and appearance, and in the narrow foot ; 

 but it differs in being much more cylindrical and worm-like in the 

 form of the body, and in the head being small, hemispherical, and 

 pellucid in spirit, instead of being more or less lunate or broad and 

 opaque white, and having many eyes. 



New Species of Hyrax. By Dr. J. E. Geay. 



In the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4. vol. i. p. 35, I published a 

 " Revision of the Species of HifraxT The British Museum has 

 received some other specimens, which belong to three, if not four, 

 species not mentioned in that revision. The Museum purchased 

 from Mr. Jesse three specimens and one skeleton of Hyrax, collected 

 during the expedition to Abyssinia. They are all normal Hy races 

 as the genus is restricted in the paper above quoted, and belong to 

 the section of it marked by having soft fur and a yellow dorsal streak. 



One, which I have named H. ferrugineus, has an elongate well- 

 marked yellow dorsal streak, the hair of the dorsal spot, as in all 

 the other species of the section that I have described, being yellow 

 the whole of its length to the base ; the hair of the back is grey and 

 black, vdth white tips ; and the hinder part of the back and rump is 

 washed with a ferruginous tint, which I have not observed in any 

 other species of the genus : hence the specific name I have chosen. 



The second species, which I have called H. irroratus, is coloured 

 much like the preceding ; but the hair is longer, and the dorsal spot 

 is small and inconspicuous, the hair of the spot being blackish for 

 the lower half of its length, and yellow at the upper half ; the chin 

 and under part of the body is white. 



The other skin is very like the above ; but the fur is rather shorter, 

 and the chin and underside of the body are yello-n^sh gi'cy. There is 

 in the British Museum another specimen, which agrees with this in 

 every particular, which was purchased from Brandt of Hamburg as 

 //. si/riacHs from Africa ; so that I do not know its exact habitat, 

 and very probably it was received from Abyssinia, The dorsal spots 

 of both these specimens arc like that of //. irroratus: I have therefore 

 considered them a variety of it, which I have called luteogaster ; but I 

 strongly suspect that, when more specimens are examined, it will prove 

 to be a distinct species, which maj^ be designated by that name. 



Senhor Barboza du Bocage sent me a specimen of Ilyrax from 

 Angola, under the name of H. arhoreus. It is a most distinct spe- 

 cies of the restricted genus Hyrax, belonging to the section with soft 

 fur, but is peculiar for having minute black tips to the hairs and an 



