752 Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society. 



mens of the lanthiiia fragilis of Lamarck, the Helix 

 lanthina of Linnaeus, collected from Oxwich Bay, to 

 the west of Swansea, accompanied by a letter stating 

 that the same shell, which is abundant in the Medi- 

 terranean, had been found once before there in some 

 abundance. Mr. Dillwyn considered the recording 

 such facts of importance, as being likely to throw 

 some light on the under-currents of the ocean. 



Dec. 18. Mr. Bell exhibited three undescribed species of 

 Land Tortoises, two of them very much resembling 

 Testudo geometrica. To one of the present species, 

 which Mr. Bell certainly thinks furnished La Cep^de 

 with his erroneous description of T. geometrica^ he has 

 , given the name of T. actinodes. It differs in the ab- 



sence of the small single plate at the anterior part of 

 the margin. To another specimen, with conical scutae, 

 he has assigned the specific name of tentoria ; and to 

 the third specimen (which he has had alive for some 

 time,) he has given the name of pardalis: this, although 

 resembling the Testudo indica, differs from it not only 

 in colour, but also in the less revolute margin, and in 

 the situation of the areola of the costal plates, which, 

 instead of being exactly central as in T. indica, are in 

 this species placed very near the superior margin. 

 1828. 



Jan. 15. Mr. George Townshend Fox, F.L.S., exhibited from 

 the Newcastle Museum the original specimen of the 

 Green-headed Bunting, Emberiza Tunstalli of Latham, 

 the E. chlorocephala of Gmelin, which now proves to 

 be identical with E. hortulana, Linn. 



Mr. Yarrell, F.L.S., exhibited two specimens of 



Emberiza 



