360 Zoological Society. 



August 27.— Richard C. Griffith, Esq., in the Chair. 



Mr. Fraser read a description of a new species of Crowned Pigeon 

 from New Guinea, now in the Gardens of the Society. In honour 

 of Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Patroness of the Society, he pro- 

 posed the name of 



LoPHYRus Victoria*. L. ptilose saturate caruleo-grisea ; singulis 

 plumis crista apice barbato cceruleo, albo marginato ; pectore cas- 

 taneo ; tectricibus alarum majoribus cinereo-cceruleis, castaneo 

 marginatis. 



The general colour of this species is an intense blue-grey, becoming 

 lighter on the head ; the chest is deep chestnut ; the larger wing- 

 coverts are light blue-grey, tipped with dark chestnut ; the head is 

 surmounted with a crest, each feather of which is of a similar con- 

 struction as that of Columbus coronatus, but spreading into a spatu- 

 late form at the extremities, of a blue colour, bordered with white ; 

 there is also a dark mark passing through the eye ; irides vermilion. 



In size it is somewhat larger than C. coronatus. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



This lovely species is closely allied to C. coronatus, but differs from 

 that bird in having terminal points to the crest-feathers, in the darker 

 colouring, in having chestnut on the breast instead of the back and 

 shoulders, and in having the larger wing-coverts pale blue-grey, ter- 

 minated with chestnut, in the place of white, tipped with chestnut. 



** Description of new species of Ranellay by Lovell Reeve, Esq. 



Ranella albivaricosa. Ran. testd oblong o-ovatd, depressiusculd, 

 varicibus tuberculis subspinosis prominentibus armatis ; anfractibus 

 leviter angulatis, tuberculis subspinosis infra angulum biseriatim 

 armatis, transversim elevato-striatis, inferne liratis, striis lirisque 

 leviter undulatis, subtilissime granulatis ; alba, rufescente-fusco 

 tinctd, varicibus niveis ; aperturd oblongo-ovali, utrinque canali- 

 culatd, fauce pallide purpurascente ; labro dentato et sulcato. 



Conch. Icon., Ranella, pi. 1. f. 2. 



Murex rana, Linnaeus ; Martini, Conch., vol. iv. pi. 133. f. 1270-71. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



How comes it to pass that this common and peculiarly character- 

 istic species has escaped the notice of so many good discriminating 

 conchologists who have written on the genus .'* 



Ranella pustulosa. Ran. testd ovatd, subdepressd, ponderosd, 

 castaned; anfractibus pustularum grandium seriebus duabus tri- 

 busve livido-castaneis cingulatis ; varicibus granuloso-liratis ; colu' 

 melld granuloso-rugosd, rugis albidis ; labro planissime fimbriate, 

 superne sinuato,fusco, radiatim albisulcato. 



Conch. Icon., Ranella, pi. 3. f. 11. 



Hab. Ascension Island. 



This shell approximates so closely to the Ranella cadata in the 



* '' Lophyrus, Vieill. (1816); Goura, Steph. (1819); Megapelia, Kaup 

 (1836) ; Ptilophyrus, Swains. (1837)." G. R. Gray's ' Genera of Birds.' 



