454 MR. E. R. ALSTON ON ANTECHINOMYS. [JuaC 15, 



(1846), 2nd edition, p. 12 (1863), nee A. tibetensis, Hodgs. J. A. 



^- '?:l^t'Lt'SchX' (partim), Blyth, Cat. Mamm. Mas. As. 

 Soc. p. 108 (1863), Kec Schreber. , ^^ , ,. ,09 



«' ^A. hemachalanus, Hodgson,' Jerdon, Mamm. India, p. lU- 

 (1867) ; W. Blanf. J. A. S. B. 1875, xliv. pt 2, p. 122 



^'A.Mgsoni,^. Blanf., Scientific Results ot the Second Yarkand 

 Mission, Mammalia, p. 35, note." 



Prof. Mivart stated that on Tuesday Sth inst. the Secretaiy of 

 the Botanical Society in the Regent's Park, Mr. W. Sowerby F.L.S 

 had his attention called to some small ammals livmg in the tank o 

 the Fictoria-regia house. On examination these animals had turned 

 out to be Medusse \ which were thus found to be inhabitants ot 

 fresh water, a circumstance which Prof. M.vart believed to be 

 unprecedented. These animals were subsequently found to become 

 torpid, and fall to the bottom almost motionless, when the water 

 had become as cool as 56° Fahr. ; but upon the water becoming 

 warmed up to 85° they became once more as active as eve. 

 vio-orously continuing the contractions of the umbrella Mr. Sowerby 

 had informed Prot° Mivart that they were rapidly reproducing 

 young like themselves. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On Antechinomys and its Allies. 

 By Edward R. Alston, Sec.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 

 [Eeceived May 29, 1880.] 

 (Plate XLV.) 



In March last my friend Mr. J. W. Clark r.sked me to determine 

 some spirit-specimens of Mammals belonging to the Museum of the 

 Univei4ity of' Cambridge. The series included a collection of small 

 Australian Marsnpials, and among these was one which puzzled me 

 not a little. Its long Chceropus-\xU limbs and bushy tad gave it the 

 aspect of a member of the fam-ly Peramelidee, yet it evidently be- 

 longed to the Dasyurid^. It was only when Mr. Gerrard showed 

 me°the type oiPhascologale lanigera, Gould"", in the British Museum 

 that I discovered its identity with that species; ^"^ I think hat no 

 one who compares the figure here given (Plate XL\ .) with M 

 Gould's illustration will be suprised that I failed to recognize the 



""^n'a paper communicated to this Society by Mr. G. Krefft, 



' Since named by Mr. E. Eay Lankester Craspcdacusta sowerUi, 'Nature,' 

 vol. Si p 147 (June 17th. 1880), and by Prof. Allman Limmcodmm Victoria, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. [Zool.] vol. xv. p. 131. _ 



2 Mamm. Austr. i. pi. xxxiii. (1863, descr. ong.). 



