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this group and Eliomys ; I am therefore, at his instance, 

 prepared to give it full generic rank. 

 The new form may be called 



Dyromys nitedula phrygius, subsp. n. 



Size about as in subsp. pi'ctHS, therefore rather larger than 

 in European nitedula. General colour above a light butfy 

 yellowish, markedlv lighter and more yellowish than in either 

 typical nitedula of Southern Russia, Wingeioi Greece, or the 

 Persian pictus. Tail lined grey, with a faint tinge of bufFy. 

 BuUge larger than in the European forms. 



Dimensions of tlie type (measured in flesh) : — 



Head and body 100 mm. ; tail 85 ; hind foot 21; ear 14. 



Skull : greatest length 26'7 ; basihir length 20"'4 ; greatest 

 breadth 15 ; nasals 8 ; length of upper molar series 3'6. 



Hab. Murad Dagh, Ushak Province, Asia Minor (Mount 

 Dindymus, Phrygia, of classical maps). Altitude 7500'. 



Tgpe. Adult male. B.M. no. 5. 10. 6. 1. Original 

 number 37. Collected and presented by W. Griffiths 

 Blackler, Esq. Two specimens. 



Tliis pretty dormouse may be distinguished from the other 

 forms of D. nitedula by its brighter and yellower colour. 

 The Museum has recently received from Mr. Herbert Sykes a 

 specimen nearly topotypical of B'anford's Myoxus pictus from 

 Central Persia, which might have been the same as the Asia 

 Minor animal, but proves to be a comparatively greyer and 

 less yellowish form. Specimens quite similar to the litter 

 have also been obtained in the Km-rum Valley, N.W. Frontier 

 of India, by Mr. C. H. T. Whitehead, thus forming a 

 considerable extension of the eastward range of tliis type of 

 dormouse. 



LVI. — Notes on an " Octopus '^ loith Branching Arms. 

 By Edgau a. Smith, I.S.O., F.Z.S. 



[Plate XVIIL] 



A COLLECTION Sent home this year by Mr. 11. Gordon Smith 

 from Japan contained a very remarkable specimeti of an 

 Octopus with branching arms. It has been presented by him 

 to the British Museum. 



Furcation in the arms of Cephalopods appears to be of 



