40 REV. CANON TRISTRAM ON ELIOMYS MELANURUs. [Jan. 16, 
jection near the base, and covered by a callus extending nearly to 
the top of the whorl. 
Length 3+ lines, breadth 13 line. 
Hab. “Sow and Pigs”’ reef, Port Jackson (Brazier). 
TORNATINA BRENCHLEYI, n. sp. (Plate V. fig. 20.) 
Shell ovately cylindrical, white, shining, very finely striated by 
the lines of growth, and exhibiting only faint traces of spiral stria- 
tion; whorls 4}, the two apical ones forming a small tubercle, the 
rest somewhat dleyateds turreted, and separated by a deeply but not 
broadly channeiled suture ; aperture narrow above, gradually dila- 
ting and curved at the base ; the outer lip not extending to the top . 
of the whorl and slightly contracted in the middle; the columella 
furnished with a stout callous plication, which is connected above 
with the labrum by a thin callous deposit on the whorl. 
Length 3 lines, breadth 1 line. 
Hab. Dredged outside Port-Jackson Heads in 10 fathoms water 
(Brenchley), coll. Brit. Mus. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE V. 
. Purpura (Cronia) anomala, p. 34. 
Microvoluta australis, p. 35. 
. Columbella (Anachis) speciosa, p. 35. 
. Turbonilla festiva, p. 39. 
Cingulina brazieri, p. 35. 
. Apicalia guentheri, p. 35. 
. Cerithiopsis purpurea, p. 36. 
. Conus (Stephanoconus) fae a p. 36, 
. Drillia emula, p. 36. 
10. Mangelia jacksonensis, p. 37. 
f Slavescens, p. 37. 
12. Clathurella brenchleyi, p. 37. 
rufozonata, p. 38. 
14. —— pustulata, p. 38. 
modesta, p. 38. 
16. Cirsonella australis, p. 38. 
17. Ethalia brazieri, p. 89. 
18. Myonia sinuata, p. 39. 
19. Tornatina hofmani, p. 39. 
brenchleyi, p. 40. 
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6. Notes on Eliomys melanurus and on some other Rodents 
of Palestine. By H. B. Tristram, F.R.S., C.M.Z.S. 
(Plate VI.) 
By far the richest part of the fauna of the desert-regions of 
Western Asia is its Rodents ; and it is certainly that of which we know 
the least. Almost all the small mammals of the stony region south 
of Judeea, of the whole Sinaitic peninsula, and of the vast sandy and 
- rocky expanses which stretch with little variation from Damascus 
and Moab to Bagdad, are crepuscular or nocturnal in their habits. 
