246 Miscellaneous. 



Berbyce mollis, a new British Coral. By Dr. J. E. Gray. 



A few years ago Mr. M'Andrew gave to the British Museum a 

 specimen of a Coral he had collected in Loch Toridon, in Boss- 

 shire. It has been regarded, I believe, as a young specimen of 

 Gorgonia vemwosa. 



Dr. Perceval Wright the other day gave to the British Museum a 

 specimen of Berbyce mollis that he had dredged at Syracuse ; and 

 on comparing Mr. M'Andrew's specimen from Scotland with the 

 Gorgonoid from Syracuse, there can be no doubt they are the same 

 species, and very distinct from Gorgonia verrucosa. 



Berbyce mollis, ever since it was described by Dr. Philippi (Arch, 

 fiir Naturg. 1842, p. 35, 1. 1. f.a, b,c), has been a paradox to zoologists ; 

 but the examination of the figure ought to have settled the difficulty. 

 Dr. Philippi described the genus as having non-retractile tentacles, 

 and, to enforce the importance he attached to the character, printed 

 non-retractile in italic. He figures the coral with completely re- 

 tracted polypes ; and the specimens in the British Museum, from 

 Syracuse and Loch Toridon, exactly agree with the figure. 



M. Yalenciennes, in his very hasty observations on Gorgonia, 

 probably misled by the description, states his belief that the genus 

 Berbyce was founded on a Sympodiwn parasitic on the axis of a 

 common Gorgonia ! (See M.-Edw. Corall. i. 187.) 



Berbyce is a true Gorgoniad, and chiefly differs from the genus 

 Gorgonia, as restricted by modern authors, by the polype-cell being 

 shorter and the stem and branches compressed, and in the form of 

 the sj)icules. 



On the Bats collected, in Saratval- by the Marquis Giacomo Doria. 

 By Prof. W. Peters. 



Prof. Peters enumerates fourteen species of Cheiroptera as inha- 

 bitants of Sarawak (and describes one of them as a new species and 

 the type of a new subgenus), namely : — 



1. Pteropxis hypomelanus, Temm., var. Tomesii ( = P. hypomelanus, 



Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1858, p. 536). 



2. Cynopterus brcvicauclatus, F. Cuv. 



3. Macroglossus minimus, Geoffr. 



4. Megaderma spasma, L. 



5. Rhinolophus hictus, Temm. 



6. trifoliatus, Temm. 



7. Phyllorhina lahuanensis. Tomes. 



8. bicolor, Temm. 



9. EiubaUoneura monticola (Kuhl), Temm. 



10. JSyctinomus plicatus, Buchanan. 



11. Chiromeles torquatus, Ilorsf. 



12. Vespertilio adversus, Horsf. 



13. Vesperugo imhricatus, Temm. 



14. Vesperus (Hesperoptenus) Dorice, sp. ct subgcn. nov. 



The inferior threc-lobcd incisors stand obliquely to the margin of 

 the jaw, so that they partially cover each other in front. The first 



