Mr. J. E. Gray on the Slender-tongued Saurians. 287 



useful as he can to the purposes of science, most liberally on 

 its death presented to the National Collection, I was stinick 

 ■with observing that the pupils of its eyes are oblong and hori- 

 zontal like those of the herbivorous quadrupeds, instead of 

 being vertical like some of the Feline tribes ; for in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Zoological Society I observed that the pupils 

 of the eyes of most of the Feline animals are round, and not 

 elliptical and vertical as they are generally described. 



We have lately received from M. Wahlberg a specimen of 

 the water shrew from North Bothnia, which he considers as a 

 Sorex fodiens. It is quite different in the length of the tail 

 from our English species, which in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society I have called Amphisorex Pennaniii, and 

 I therefore propose to call it A. Linneana. They may be thus 

 described : — 



Amphisorex Pennantii. Blackish-brown, upper lip and 

 . beneath Avhite, legs blackish, feet grey, tail rather more than 

 half the length of the body and head. 

 Var. With a white spot near the ears. 



Body and head 39 to 42 ; tail 21 to 23 lines. 



Inhab. England. 



Amphisorex Linneana. Black, upper lip and beneath white, 

 legs black, feet grey, tail two-thirds the length of the body 

 and head. — Var. With a white spot behind each eye. — Body 

 and head 47 j tail 33 lines. 



Inhab. North Bothnia. 



XXXIV. — Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, loith 

 Descriptions of many new Genera and Species. By John 

 Edward Gray, Esq., F.R.S., Senior Assistant in the 

 Zoological Department of the British Museum, &c. 



[Continued from vol. i. p. 394.] 



E. {Aniarchoglossce). Tongue contractile ; head shielded ; scales 

 imbricate. 



Fam. IX. SciNcrD.E. 



Tongue contractile ; head shielded ; rostral shield small ; eye-lid 

 distinct ; belly and sides (and generally the back) covered with 

 smooth uniform imbricate scales ; vent transverse, linear, with scales 

 in frout. 



