294 Mes?r.=. E. W. L. Holt and L. W. Byrne on a Taterillus bullerij sp. n. A ToteriUus rather smaller and more brightly coloured tlian T. einini. Size rather smaller tlian emini. General colour above " vinaceous cinnamon," paling on the flanks to '' pinkish buff," on the lower back a reddish suffusion amounting almost to hazel ; below pure white. Hands and feet ^vhite. Tail coloured like back, paler below, distal half clothed with long (10 mm.) dark brown hairs. Skull shorter and broader than in emini. Dimensions of the type (recorded by the collector) : — Head and body 120 mm. ; tail 150; hind foot 29; ear 18. Skull : greatest length 35 ; basilar length 27 ; zygomatic breadth 18; nasals 15; iuterorbital breadth 6*5 ; brain-case breadth 15; diastema 10; upper molar series 5 ; anterior palatal foramina 6 ; posterior palatal foramina 4'5 ; bullas 9. Hah. Bahr-el-Gliazal. (Type from Dug-dug.) Type. Old female. B.M. no. 8. 4. 2. 17. Collected by Mr. A. L. Butler on 19th January, 1907. Mr. Butler sent two series, viz. : one, from E-affile on the Sneh River, due south of Wau, collected in February 1908, which is not distinguishable from T. emini', while the other, obtained in January 1907, at Dug-dug (8° N. and 28° E.) considerably north of Wau, represents the present species. XXXII. — Preliminary Diagnosis of a new Stomiatid Fish from South-ioest of Ireland. By E. W. L. HOLT and L. W. Byrne. The specimen before us was taken by Messrs. Farran and Kemp in a shrimp-trawl fished from the ' Helga ' on 12th No-vember, 1909, at Station S.R. 858, 51° 20' N., 11° 56' W., off the south-west coast of Ireland. The soundings were 736 fathoms, but the net never touched bottom, and probably did not go deeper than 700 fathoms. It is closely allied to the West-Atlantic rammatostomias dentatus, Goode and Bean {' Oceanic Ichthyology,' 1895), from which, however, as also from any other fish of which we have seen a description, it is at once distinguished by a most conspicuous pale band, which forms a closed loop on the anterior half of each side of the body. The fish has,
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