472 Miscellaneous. 



female Cancer pagurus which had copulated a little while before, aud 

 bore, buried in each of its copulatory pouches, a white, cylindrical, 

 soft body, which appeared to me to be the terminal portion of the mem- 

 branous penis of the male separated from the rest of the sexual 

 organs of the latter. I regret that I have not had the opportunity of 

 repeating this observation, since mi/ (ittention has been directed to the 

 spermatophores ; for it is possible that the sort of stopper in question 

 left in the vulva may have been a body of that nature rather than a 

 fragment of a penis." 



In dissecting a female Ma'ia squinado, I found in its copulatory 

 pouches bodies analogous to those indicated by M. MUue-Edwards. 

 The histological examination of these bodies proved that they could 

 not be regarded as fragments of a penis. In fact they showed no 

 trace of organized tissues. It is therefore possible that they must 

 be regarded as remains of the spermatophores of the male. However, 

 as I have not hitherto had the opportunity of observing spermato- 

 phores in the Brachyurous Crustacea, I shaU not venture to speak 

 decidedly upon this point. — Comptes Rendus, March 23, 1874, 

 p. 855. 



On the Felis euptilura />'om Shanghai, in the British Mtiseum. 

 By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.K.S. &c. 



The British Museum has received from Mr. Webb, through John 

 Russell Reeves, Esq., a wild cat from Shanghai. It has the colour 

 and much of the spotting of the Felis rubiginosa from Western India ; 

 but it is quite different from that long-headed, long-tailed cat in being 

 a short-headed, short-tailed animal, and in the short skull having the 

 incomplete orbits of the true cats, instead of being long aud with the 

 complete orbits of Viverriceps rubiginosa. 



This cat has aU the characters of the smaller spotted Asiatic eats 

 with short spotted tails, on which I published a paper in the ' Annals' 

 for January 1874 (xiii. p. 55). 



I am inclined to regard it as a perfect specimen of the Felis eupti- 

 lura, described by Mr. EUiot and ligured by Mr. Wolf, P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 761, t. Ixxvi., from a very bad skin, now in the British Museum, 

 supposed to have come from Siberia. 



The possession of a perfect skin and skull of this confirms it as 

 a distinct species. The specimen in the Museum chiefly differs 

 from Mr. Wolf's figure in the streaks on the crown and nape not 

 being quite so wide, and in the tail being rather longer and more 

 cyHndrical, which is easily explained when we consider the very bad 

 state in which the skin figured by Mr. Wolf was. 



The skull has very large, prominent, swollen, compressed bullae to 

 the ears, and a large deep subcircular cavity at the inner side of the 

 hinder part of the fiesh-tooth and the small tubercular grinder. 



On the Amount of Pressure in the Sap of Plants. 

 By Prof. W. S. Clarke, of Amherst. 



It only remains to state in a few words the results obtained by 

 the application of mercurial gauges to the sugar-maple, the black 

 birch, and the grape-vine. Observations were made on one or more 



