0/1 uit Lnitained Species of Cervus. 195 



FhihcUiyeni Clupnredii, wiiich (liffer.s tVoiii S. diplocliuitua 

 cliitllv ill liaviiifi^ 23-l';'> notopodial biLstlfS, 1-2 voiitral hooks, 

 ami (iifVereiit foitiis of |)a|tilla>. Now it" in tli«; Millport 

 8j)t'ciuifii8 the short not<»|)<MliaI luisth's be cninitocl in addition 

 to the loii^ ones, this wouhl make the number the same as in 

 St. Joseph's species, and the number of ventral hooks is tho 

 same. It seems probable that S. diplochaitos is a very 

 variable species, exhibiting a strong tendency to run into 

 local races, and that the three "species," H. diploch'titus, 

 iS. ajfinis^ and (S. Cfaparedii, are only varieties of the same 

 species. 



EXI'LANATIUN UF I'LATK IV. 



Fit/. 1. Cluster of bristk's from oin' nf the posterior notopoiiiii of S. iliplo- 

 c/«m'/(a«, .-howiufi: eleM'ii loii<; bristles, represeiitrd o.^ if cut 

 short, and ten short bristles scarcely projecting,' fruni the surface 

 of the papilla. The line a a repreaenta the outline of the papilla. 

 X oO. 



Ft'g. 2. Neuropodial papilla of <S*. dipli>chmtos with hooks removed, to 

 show the short .<iuiple bristles, here twelve in number. X 50. 



Fiij. '•\. f"ra<jrnieut of dorsal bristle of 'S'. diphchaitos, to show the varyinj? 

 distances at which the aunuli are placed. X oUO. 



Fi(/. 4. Hook of .S'. (Uplochailos, to show auuuli. In the median region no 

 aunuli could be seen even with a lii;:h niafrnification. X 40. 



Fiy. o. Fragment of dorsal bristle of 6'. affinis, to show uimuli. X 300. 



Fiy. 6. Hook of .V. cjiuts, t» show aunuli. X ''0. 



College of Medicine for Women, 

 Edinburgh. 



XXIII. — On an Unnamed Species cf CervusyVo/zi Turkestan. 

 By K. I.YDEKKER. 



Ox pages 108 and 109 of my work entitled ' Tho Deer of 

 All Lands' brief mention is made of a stag recently (and 

 perhaps still) living in the zoological gardens at Moscow, 

 which at the time in question I was unable to refer to any 

 known species, though 1 refrained from giving it a scientific 

 name till furtlicr information was obtained. The specimen, 

 of which a figure, copied from a photograph, was given, was 

 reputed to have come from Turkestan, and in the characters 

 of its antlers, of which a cast pair are in the possession of the 

 Duke of Bedford, is evidently allied to the shou {Cervus 

 ajinis) of the district north of Bhutan. 



Recently the Duke of Bedford has received a stag from the 

 neighbourhood of Tashkend, which is now living in the park 

 at Woburn Abbey, and which, although it has at present no 

 antlers, 1 have no hesitation in referring to the same species 



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