388 Mr. II. J. Carter on Deeiy-sea 



[111 the copy of tlie ' Fauna of Turkestan ' translated by 

 me, I find tlie following short list of addenda, by Dr. N. A. 

 Sevcrtzot!'.— F. C. C] 



Mammalia. 



1. Felis [Catolynx) chaus (vel Chaus catolynx^ Pall.). 



Occurs about Seniirctchje, Issik-kul, about Hodgent, and 

 in the whole Zarevshan valley, Lower-Oxus marshes. It has 

 considerably larger feet than F. servalina. 



2. Cams aureus. 

 On the Oxus. 



3. Vesperugo noctula. 



At Cheenaz on the Syr it was caught in March 1875; not 

 observed before. 



4. SpermopMlus ocanihoprymnus^ Benn. 



Erroneously noticed by me formerly as Sp. fuhus, Licht., 

 which also exists in Turkestan, but only near the lower Syr. 

 Sp. xanthojyrymnus was found by me near Tashkent and 

 Cheenaz, and near Samarkand by Russoff. 



5. Spermophilus Eversmanni, Brdt. 



Found, in the summer of 1874, near the mountain-lake 

 Lairam-kul, north of Kulja. 



XXXVII. — Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges 

 and their Spicules^ from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on 

 hoard H.M.S. '"Porcupine^ chiefly in 1869 {concluded). By 

 H. J. Cakter, F.R.S. &c. 



[Continued from p. 324.] 



Cometella pyrula, n. sp. (PI. XIV. fig. 20, and PI. XV. 



fig. 38.) 



General form pear-like, twisted upon itself or towards the 

 stem, which is attached to a small stone ; head pyriform, 

 apiculated by the projection of a conical point (PI. XIV. 

 fig. 20,/). Colour cream-yellow. Surface smooth, hard, 

 finn, punctate, each punctum being the apex of a low conical 

 projection formed of spicules aiTanged in a whorl-like manner 

 (fig. 20, h) . Pores not seen, probably the puncta respectively 



