518 



Miscellaneous. 



remarkable and abundant rather in its Cryptogamoua than Phanero- 

 gamous productions. After an attentive examination of the hills and 

 the district around them for some years, Mr. Lees had been enabled 

 to determine 



Dicotyledonous plants 553 



Monocotyledonous plants 173 



726 



The Cryptogamous census altogether amounts to 712, and with a 

 little more industry and research among mycological productions Mr. 

 Lees thought it might be considerably increased, while few he thought 

 could be added to the Phanerogamous list. 



Altogether, the entire number of plants Mr. Lees had determined 

 and appropriated as belonging to the flora of the Malvern Hills 

 amount to 1438. 



The President announced that Mr. Arthur Henfrey had been ap- 

 pointed Curator, and that the Herbarium might be inspected every 

 Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10 to 4, and on Friday even- 

 ings from 7 to 10. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



A new species of Tapering-tailed Phascogale in the Collection of the 

 British Museum. By J. E. Gray, F.R.S., &c. 



This species agrees in size and appearance with Phascogale minima, 

 but differs from it in having long white tips to the dark brown and 

 black hairs, in the tail being short, conical, tapering, and covered 

 with elongated yellowish-tipt hairs, and especially in its having a 

 terminal pencil of black-tipt hairs, for which reasons I am induced 

 to call it Phascogale apicalis. 



Unlike Phascogale minima, — P. affinis of Van Diemen's Land, P. leu- 

 cogaster of Western Australia, and P. rufogaster of South Australia, — 

 the present species has only two compressed false grinders in the up- 

 per jaw, but this may depend on the youth of the specimen, which is 

 a female with a large well- developed abdominal pouch. The specimen 

 here described was procured from Mr. Brandt of Hamburgh, who 

 purchased it during his late visit to London. Its precise habitat is 

 not known, but it is doubtless from Australasia. 



STERNA ARCTICA. 



I perceive that in the last number of the ' Annals and Mag. of Nat. 

 Hist.' Mr. Thomas Austin is disposed to question the identity of the 

 flocks of Terns seen on the 7th of May with the Sterna arctica. 

 Whether the " two or three hundred" that were killed in the har- 

 bour of Bristol on that day were the S. arctica or the S. hirundo, I 

 have no means of deciding, and it is very possible that Mr. Austin 

 may be more correct in his specific determinations than the editor 

 of the Bristol Mirror ; but with regard to the numerous specimens 

 obtained in Worcestershire, I can only say that I believe them all to 

 have been 8. arctica. I have myself examined a considerable num- 

 ber of individuals of the latter species procured at the above date, 



