11.1 



the ears bright reddish ; ears, and the greater part <>! the tail bright 

 red-brown ; tip of the tail black. 



lint). Am island. 



Male. 



"In houses as destructive as rats to every thing eatable. 



"Teeth 31:— Inc. J; C. \=\ ; Prem. £=; M. £3."— Wallace. 



(J ' 1 — 1 ' 2—2 ' 3—3 



8. Perameees (Echimipe&a) Doreyanus. 



Peramelee Doreyamu, Quoy & Gaimard, Nov. Astrol. Zool. i. 100. 

 t. 16. f. 1-5; Waterhouse, Mam. i. 386. 



Echymipera Kalulu, Lesson, Reg. Anim. 1 92. 



Tail naked, rugose, squamose, wrinkled below. Toes 3*5 : the 

 two inner front large, equal ; the outer small ; the inner hind toe 

 short, clawless ; the two index fingers small, united, clawed. 



Hab. Aru Island. 



Female. 



" The skin is very thin and friable. 



" Teeth 46 :— Inc. | ; C. ^"4 ; Prem. 3 ~l ; M. ^."— Wallace. 



1 — 1 J — J •* — 4 



This enumeration agrees with that given by MM. Quoy and Gai- 

 mard, being two cutting teeth in the upper jaw less than are found in 

 the other species of the genus ; hence Lesson considered it as a 

 genus. 



The outer and inner toes of the forefeet are very small, rudi- 

 mentary and clawless. 



9. Paradoxurus hermaphrodita. 



Hab. Ke Islands. 



Is in the collection : it only appears to be a variety of the very vari- 

 able and extensively distributed Parados uruc hermaphrodita, 



5. Description of Aphroceras, \ New Genus of Calcaiii.ih - 

 Sfongiad.e brought from Hong-Kong tn Dr. Harlanp. 

 By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.K.S., V.P.Z.S., President Knt. 

 Soc. etc. 



(Radiata, PI. X.) 

 Aphroceras. 



Sponge tubular, branched, without any large superficial (Monies, 

 formed of two distinct coats, externally covered with simple fusi- 

 form calcareous spicula, placed tide bj side in the longitndinal axis 

 of the stem and branches, forming an even coat ; inner rarfai 



the tube lined with a minute network of interlaced fibre placed in 



all directions ; branches simple, tapering, at t enuated al the tip, with 



a round terminal contracted aperture. 



The spicula are entirely dissolved in dilute muriatic acid, leaving the 

 form of the sponge marked by the internal network and the sfa 

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