30 ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
nymy. The species described are Hypudceus glareolus, Arvicola 
{Praticola) amphibiuSf Arv. {Prat.) nivalis, Arv. {Prat.) arvalis, 
Arvicola {Sylvicola) agrestis. Each species is represented on a 
coloured plate, and the skulls and dentition are figured on a 
separate plate. 
'^A7incola aubterranea (S(5lys-Longch.) occurs in Moravia. Jeitteles, 1. c. p. 85. 
'^Arvicola arvalis and Hypudceus amphihiua. II. Beger has published a very 
detailed account of the anatomy in Zeitschr. ges. Ntrwiss. xxx. p. 145. * 
Castor fiber. Notes on the Beaver in Nova Scotia, by Oapt. Hardy, Proc. 
^ Traiw. Nov. Scot. Inst. Nat. Sc. i\. 1867, pp. 17-25. 
\\Lophiomys is a most interesting nevr genus, described by 
M. A. Milne-Edwards in LMnstitnt, 1867, xxxv. p. 46, Ann. Sc. 
Nat. 1867, vii. pp. 113-121, and more fully in Nouv. Areh. 
Mus. iii. pp. 81-118, pis. 6-10. It is covered with very long 
black and white hairs, those on the back forming a dense crest, 
and separated from the sides by a band of shorter brownish 
hairs ; tail long, non-prehensile, with long hairs. It is of the 
size of a Guinea-pig. The author regards it as the type of a 
distinct family near the Murida, whieh he characterizes thus ? — 
The inner toe on the hind feet can be opposed to the others ; 
temporal fossae covered by a granulated shield like the upper 
part of the shull ; clavicles rudimentary. Stomach with a sub- 
pyloric glandular appendage. Molar teeth |^. Lophiomys im- 
hausii, sp. n., perhaps from Asia. The plates accompanying the 
memoir represent the animal, its osteology, and the principal 
parts of its anatomy. 
A skull of the same Rodent was exhibited by Prof. Reichert in the Gesell- 
schaft ntrf. Freund. Berl, 1867, Jan. 15, p. 1. It was obtained at Maman, 
north of Kassala. Prof. Peters recognized in it the typo of a new genus, 
for which he proposed the name of Phractomys cethiopicus. Zeitschr. ges. 
Ntrwiss. 1867, Febr. p. 195. Some further remarks by Reichert, 1. c. p. 19. 
4 Siphneus fontanierii and armandii, spp. nn., A Milne-Edwards, Ann. Sc. 
Nat. 1867, vii. p. 376, from North China. 
Dipus annulatus, sp. n., A. Milne-Edwards, 1. c., Mongolia. 
>4 Gerhillus hremcaudatus and unguicxdatus, spp. nn., A. Milne-Edwards, 
\ c. p. 377. 
Myoxus glis and nitela. Notes on the hybernation by F. Tiomann, Zoolog. 
Gart. 1867, p. 144. The author thinks that the season of copulation is not 
the spring but the autumn (October). 
Myoxus dry as. Hr. Jeitteles gives an account of his observations on a 
living example, and a description of its skeleton, 1. c. pp. 14-24. 
^ Dr. Gray has published a series of papers on the species of 
Sciuridee contained in the collection of the British Museum. 
In the first paper (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1867, xx. pp. 270- 
286) he characterizes the genera and species of Asiatic Squir- 
rels, in the second (pp. 323-334) those of Africa, in the third 
(pp. 415-434) those of the New World, and in the foiu’th 
