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living examples, four of which arrived at the Gardens in August. 

 They turned out to be specimens of Acomys nesiotes, a new species 

 described by Miss Bate * in June of this year from specimens 

 brought by her from Cyprus and presented to the Natural History 

 Museum, where Mr. Thomas very kindly showed them to me. 

 Miss Bate obtained her specimens from the Kerynia Hills, not 

 far from the village of Dikomo. She added : " I never met with 

 or heard of it in other parts of the island, though probably it 

 occurs at any rate over the whole of the Mesorcea, or central 

 plain, and the southern slopes of the Kerynia Hills." 



From information given me by Mr. Michell it is clear that the 

 Cypriote Spiny Mouse has a range in Cyprus much wider than 

 that attributed to it by Miss Bate, and probably extending to the 

 whole of the island. The south-western portion of the island is 

 hilly, the range separating it from the central plain running up 

 to over 5000 feet. Some of Mr. Michell's specimens came fi*om 

 the village of Ayios Konstantiiios, at an elevation of over 4000 feet ; 

 others were from various regions in the vine-clad hills, and othei-s 

 again from the low coast-area near limassol. The mice are very 

 timid and seldom seen by the villagers. They live in deep holes, 

 and are reported to do much damage to the caroub trees. They 

 are not known in towns. 



It happened, curiously enough, that the four specimens in the 

 Gardens and all those obtained by Mr. Michell were devoid of 

 tails. This corroborates the remarks of Miss Bate on the brittle- 

 ness of the vertebrae in these animals. The mice bred while in 

 captivity, producing two at a birth. The young had normal tails, 

 but lost them in a very short time. 



6. On the Muscles of the Uugulata. By Bertram 0. A. 

 WiNDLE, ScD., M.D., M.A., F.R.S., Professor of 

 Anatomy in the University of Birmingham, and F. Gr. 

 Parsons, F.R.C.S., F.Z.S., F.L.S., Lecturer on Human 

 and Comparative Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital, 

 late Hunterian Professor in the Royal College of Sur- 

 geons, England. 



Part II. — Muscles of the Hind-limb and Trunk. 



[Received September 8, 1903.] 

 (Text-figures 24-27.) 



The first part of this paper, which dealt with the muscles of 

 the head, neck, and fore-limb, was read before the Society on 

 December 17, 1901, and published in the 'Proceedings' in April 

 1902 (see P. Z. S. 1901, vol. ii. pp. 656-704), and we now wish to 

 give an account of the muscles of the hind-limb and trunk,, 

 together with some general observations on the Order. 



* Ann. & Mag. Nat.. Hist. (7) xi. p. 565 (1903).. 



