Zoological Society. 571 



The elongated, slender, elevated caudal canal, as well as the more 

 distinct spines of the smaller shell, must be considered as a variation 

 resulting partly from difference of age, partly from locality, and other 

 circumstances. Sandy mud, 7 fathoms. —Loay. 



MuREx BREVicuLUs, Couch. lUustr. f. 37. Mur. testd rhomboided, 

 brevi, ventricosd, albd, fulvo-fasciatd: varicibus quatuor, crassis, 

 nodulosis, inter nodulos utrinque foveolatis : spird brevi; anfrac- 

 tibus rotundatis: aperturd rotundatd, ad marginem crenatd: caudd 

 brevi, subito recurvd ; canalifere claitso. 



Long. '90; lat. ex. var. "55. 



Hab. } Mus. G. B. S. Sen., H. Cuming, Stainforth. 



Differing from M. tetragonus, Brod., in the shortness of the shell, 

 and in the caudal canal, which is turned abruptly over the back of 

 the last whorl. 



MuREX Peruvianus, Conch. Illustr. f. 116. Mur. testd fusiformi, 

 subventricosd, pallide fulvd, transverse costis fuscis, nurnerosis 

 cingulatd : varicibus novem ; spinis nurnerosis ad angulum posti- 

 cum crispatis, ad caudam duabus subelongatis, falcatis : spird 

 elongatd; anfractibus septem, rotundatis, postice subplanatis: cau- 

 dd subelongatd, exfoUatd: aperturd magnd, postice subangulatd. 



Long. 1-20; lat. -60. 



Hab. ad Peruviam. Mus. H. Cuming. 



Murex noduliferus, Conch. Illustr. f. 101. Mur. testd subrhom- 

 boided, crassd, Icevi, albo-lutescente : spird elongatd; anfractibus 

 se.v, subangulatis ; suturis inconspicuis , undatis: caudd brevi, subex- 

 foliatd: varicibus sex, crassis, striatis, postice obsoletis, lavibus ; 

 tuberculis nigrescentibus, ad angulum posticum uno subfrondoso, 

 crasso, recurvo, crispato, minore antice annexo, in medium an- 

 fracttis uno angusto, angulato, minore antice annexo, ad caudam 

 uno parvo : aperturd luted subquadratd ; labio interna vix ex- 

 tante, Icevi, antice subcrenulato ; labio externo angulato, intils denti- 

 culato ; canali late aperto. 



Long. riO; lat. ex. var. 55 poll. 



Hab. ad insulam Masbate. H. Cuming legit. 



Found in coral reefs. 



Mr. Gould commenced the exhibition of fifty new species of Birds 

 from his Australian collection, and proposed to bring forward the 

 remainder of them at the succeeding meetings of the Society ; those 

 now exhibited were three new species of small Grass Parrakeets 

 {Euphema of Wagler) ; for these he proposed respectively the names 

 £u. splendida, aurantia, dindi petrophila. 



Euphema splendida. Euph. facie et plumis auricularibus intense 

 C(Bruleis : pectore rufescenti-aurantiaco : humeris et alarum tec- 

 tricibus lazulino-c(eruleis. 

 Face and ear-coverts deep indigo-blue, becoming lighter on the 

 latter ; all the upper surface grass-green ; shoulders above, and wing- 

 coverts beautiful lazuline blue ; shoulders beneath deep indigo-blue ; 

 primaries and secondaries black, the former margined externally 



