212 Senor A. Cabrera on 



embracing an upright growing SeiyuJa was dredged by tlie 

 ' Porcupine ' in 1869. The station was not preserved, but a 

 box contained a large number of stones the numerous species 

 encrusting which were, with the one exception of this 

 Cellepora, identical with the deep-sea fauna of Polyzoa with 

 wliich I am so familiar in the Shetland seas ; and there can 

 be little doubt but that the species was taken within the 

 British area. The species along with it were Amphiblestrum 

 tnfoliumy Escharina Dutertrei, Ramphonotus minax, Mega- 

 jwra ringenSj Anartliropora monodon; " ScMzojjorella''^ ansata, 

 Aldert, and sinuosa ; PoreUa hella ; EschareUa ahyssicola, 

 laqueata, and microstoma ; Ilemicydopora polita, &c. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IX. 



Fly. ] . Micro2}orn impressa, Moll : a living zooeciuui. 



Fig. 2. Ditto : a dead zooecium. 



Fiff. 3. Ditto : operculum. 



Fiff. 4. Sliell of Ditnipa arietina (Miiller). 



Fig. 5. Segment of this shell magnified, to show the perforations of 



Terehripora ditrupcs. 

 Fig. 6. Terebripora ditrupce, sp. n. : upper portion of a zooecium. 

 Fig. 7. Ditto : oral aperture of zocecium. 



Fig. 8. Escharina Dutertrei, Audouin, the deep-water Shetland form. 

 Fig. 9. Ditto, its operculum. 



Fig. 10. Ditto : variety taken in company with the last. 

 Fig. 11. Ditto: ditto, its opercula. 

 Fig. 12. Ditto : oral opening of a specimen from the Antrim coast. 



XXXII. — Three new Spanish Insectivores. 

 Bj Angel Cabrera. 



Among a number of Spanish small mammals lately arrived 

 for my private collection there are a few apparently new 

 forms of Insectivores that I now propose to describe. Some 

 of them are also represented in the Natural Science Museum 

 of Madrid. 



Talpa cceca occidentalism subsp. n. 



Characters. A small form of T. cceca, with a flatter, but 

 not lower, skull, and very hairy tail and feet. Widtii of 

 fore foot considerably greater than its length without nails. 



Colour. Brownish black, the hairs being dark silvery grey 

 with deep brown tips. Middle of under surface without the 

 last colour, the general hue becoming dark silver-grey. 

 Hairs of the tail very long, black ; those of the feet very 



