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outer edge is widely incurved throughout its whole length, 

 the inner is straight for two-thirds of its length, but forms a 

 curve towards the extremity, the width barely exceeds a 

 fourth of the length. Aritennce filiform^ extending backwards 

 to the hind thighs, inserted on the front just before the eyes ; 

 basal articulation slightly bent, gradually thickened^ rather 

 longer than third ; second nearly twice as long as broad. 



Male. — Abdomen finely sculptured and pubescent ; pen- 

 ultimate ventral segment with a semicircular line in the 

 middle which, in some lights, might be mistaken as indicating 

 an excision, the extremity with a series of small setigerous 

 triangular projections ; terminal segment deeply medially 

 cleft. 



Female. — Terminal ventral segment simple, much narrowed 

 towards the extremity. Last joint of the maxillary palpi 

 subtriangular, its apex oblique. Middle of head and thorax 

 more or less infuscate longitudinally. Apices of elytra 

 sharply rounded. 



Differs from the corresponding sex of B. rarus by the 

 absence of the longitudinal sulcus on the vertex, by its 

 longer thorax not being narrowed near the anterior angles, 

 and by the elytra being more dehiscent at the extremity. 



cJ . Length 4| ; breadth 1| line. 



Invercargill. 



This interesting species was found under logs on the sea- 

 beach by Mr. A. Philpott, about forty years after my unique 

 specimen of B. rarus was found on the Waitakerei Range. 



Mount Albert, Auckland, N.Z., 

 2Gth June, 1908. 



LIV. — Twelve new European Mammals. 

 By Gerrit S. Miller. 



The collection of European mammals in the British Museum 

 contains representatives of ten hitherto unnamed forms. 

 These are here described, together with two new races of 

 ASorfo; included among some material sent to me for examina- 

 tion in London by the authorities of the United States 

 National Museum. 



Sorex araneus fretah's, subsp. n. 



Type.—Mu\i female (skin and skull) . B. M . no. 8. 9. 2. 1. 

 Collected at Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands, July 14, 1908, 



