212 Senor A. Cabrera on 



embracing an upright growing Serpula was dredged by the 

 ' 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 witli the deep-sea fauna of Polyzoa with 

 which 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 Amphiblestruta 

 tnfoUum, Escharina Dutertrei, Ramphonotus tninax, Mega~ 

 pora ringenfi^ Anartliropora monodon; " Schizoporella^^ ansatn, 

 Aldert, and sinuosa ; PoreUa hella ; Escharella abyssicola, 

 Jaqueata, and microstoma ; Ilemicydopora poUta, &c. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IX. 



Fly. I. 3ficroporn impressa, Moll : a living zocecium. 



Fif/. 2. Ditto : a dead zocecium. 



Fiff. 3. Ditto : operculum. 



Fiff. 4. Shell of Ditrnpa arietina (Miiller). 



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



Terehripora clitrup(?. 

 Fig. 6. Terehripora ditrupce, sp. n. : upper portion of a zocecium. 

 Fiy. 7. Ditto : oral aperture of zocecium. 



Fig. 8. Escharina Duiertrei, 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. 

 By Angel Cabreka. 



Among a number of Spanish small mammals lately arrived 

 for my private collection there are a few apparently new 

 forms of Insectivores tliat I now propose to describe. Some 

 of them are also represented in the Natural Science Museum 

 of Madrid. 



Talp)a cceca occidentalism subsp. n. 



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

 not lower, skull, and very hairy tail and feet. Width 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 



