360 Miscellaneous. 



Bubovatis, in mare oblongioribus, quorum 3, in hoe scxu, fila- 



mento longo fimbriate pra^ditis. 

 Alae superae extensae, vena costali exilissima, appendiciila apicali 



oblique in dilatationem terminante, et alia vcnula spuria prope 



marginem posteriorem, longitudinaliter decurrente ultra medium 



praDditce. 

 Abdomen apice subacuminato et sursum paulo incurvatum, basi 



angustatiim. 

 Pedes simplices, tibiis intermediis unicalcaratis, tarsis omnibus 5- 



articulatis. 



Tineophaga Tischerim, sp. nov. 



Nigra, nitida, glabra; maris et fceminae antenna? nigrse, articulo 

 prime flagelli sat breviore sequentibus ; maris articulo secundo, 

 tertio et quarto appendice longa pra)ditis filiformi, breviter fim- 

 briata, articuli secundi longiore, quarti minore. Abdomen maris 

 ad basim in medio paulo albido-translucidum. Ala3 limpidissimae, 

 nuda). Pedes femoribus late uigris ; tibiis cum coxis anterioribus 

 totis albis, posticis apice nigricante ; tarsis omnibus albis, apice 

 fusco. 



The size of the parasite is not given. The larva of Tischena, the 

 legs and antenna? of the perfect insect, and the details of the struc- 

 ture of its parasite are figured. — Annuario delta Soc. dei Natural, in 

 Modetia, anno iii. pp. 20-24, pi. 4. 



A Naked Shrew. By Dr. J. E. Gray. 



Mr. P. Garner, of Stoke-upon-Trent, has kindly sent to the British 

 Museum a Naked Shrew. It was caught on the border of a wood 

 in Staflfordshiro on a hot day, but died from being enclosed in a 

 botanical box. 



The whole of the upper surface of the body and head is destitute 

 of hair, and the skin is corrugated like that of the Naked Mice (Mus) 

 figured by Mr. Gaskoin in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society,' 1856, Mamm. pi. 41. 



On Spoggodes coiiglomeratus, and a new Genus of Fleshy Alcyonoids. 

 By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c., and Henry J. Carter, F.E.S. 



Mr. llobcrt Swinhoe has brought from North China a dried speci- 

 men of a fleshy Alcyonoid for the British Museum, that appears to 

 belong to a genus hitherto unnoticed ; and Mr. Carter has kindly exa- 

 mined and drawn its structure and spicules for me. It may be called 



EUSCLERIDES. 



The coral fleshy, consisting of a growth of thick contorted lamina; 

 with rounded upper edge, the lower part of the lamina and base 

 bare, the upper part with regularly disposed polypes with numerous 

 small concavities placed at the base on the surface between the 



