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deep burrows. Professor Gervais, after a study of this animal, 

 has founded for it the genus Acanthoglossus on account of the 

 spines at the tip of the tongue. In 1877, Tachyglossus (Echidna) 

 Laivesii was described by L. P. Ramsay, of Sydney, from an- 

 example taken by the Rev. Mr. Lawes at Port Moresby. T. 

 Bnujnii of the north of New Guinea, is near T. setosus of Austra- 

 lia, while T. Lawesii is the representative of the Australian T. 

 hystrix. 



Nineteen species of Cheiroptera are enumerated, and two others 

 are known. Among these liud>allonnra Bcccarii and Vespcrugo 

 papuanus are new. Many of the bats are Malaysian, Australian or 



The only insectivore of the Papuan group, Crocidura luzoniensis 

 (Peters), was probably introduced from the Molluccas ; and to 

 introduction New Guinea probably owes its single wild ungulate, 

 Sus papuensis (Lesson). 



Among the thirteen rodents of the list the cosmopolitan Mus 

 rattus and Mus decumanus find a place, followed by six others of 

 the same genus, four of Uromys (Peters) and one of Hydromys 

 (Geoffroy). 



Results of the Voyage of the Magenta.— Prof. A. T. Toz- 

 zetti, of the Museum of Florence, has published a list of the 

 Brachyura obtained by the Italian frigate Aiagenta in its circum- 

 navigation of the world. The list includes sixty-three species. 



The same naturalist contributes valuable notes upon the Med- 

 iterranean cephalopods. Thirty-one species of Dibranchiata are 

 enumerated, with many additional particulars respecting their dis- 

 tribution and habits. The hectocotyle of Patasira tnberadata 

 Tozzetti {—Octopus violaceus Risso) contains a single spermato- 

 phore in the form of a filament rolled upon itself. This takes the 

 place of the many smaller spermatophores of ordinary cephalo- 

 pods. Octopus troschch is a new species differing from 0. vulgaris 

 in dimensions, proportion of arms and body, and disposition of 

 the acetabula. Other new species are Octopus iucertus, Scpiola 

 major and Rossia panccri. Omitholepus australis a small pedun- 

 culated cirriped living upon the ends of the abdominal feathers of 

 a puffin, Priofinus ciiiireus, has also been lately described by Pro- 

 fessor Tozzetti. Nearly a hundred of these birds were taken by the 

 Magenta in the South Atlantic and Indian ocean, and all were 

 infested with this parasite upon the barbs and barbules of the 

 central abdominal feathers, while those taken in the Pacific were 

 free from it. The strangeness of this parasitism is heightened by 

 the fact, that Priofinus is one of the most aerial of birds, only 

 resting upon the water at long intervals. None of the other Pro- 

 cellaridae taken in the same regions harbored a cirriped, but all 

 vith Anoplura of the genera 



