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in a quasi angle of about 80°, double and widely so above, pectinated 

 by about 5 points, very slightly reflected, white. Labium, nearly 

 straight, very little curved to the right below, slightly detached from 

 the body-whorl, on a plane with the labrum above, lower below. 

 Umbilicus, moderately deep. Labral lamella, rather produced in its 

 centre. Operculum, ? 



Height 0-024, greatest breadth 0*051, least breadth 0-04. 



Named in compliment to Dr. Lukis of Guernsey, an able natu- 

 ralist and antiquary. 



Blandia Loweana, Chitty. 



Hab. Bodle's Pen Wood, St. Dorothy. 



Form, subdiscoidal. Colour, dark horn. Sculpture, spiral carinae, 

 5 less and 1 strong repeated four times, then 5 less and 2 strong, 

 then 3 fine and 1 strong, and 4 less strong ; on the upper whorls, 

 7 or 8. Spire, very slightly elevated, with slightly concave outlines. 

 Apex, obtusely prominent. Whorls, 3^, very slightly rounded, with 

 a deep suture. Aperture, more than a semicircle, rather expanded 

 above, very slightly deflected and expanded below. Labrum, slightly 

 produced above at the 1st and 2nd strong carinse, broadly pectinated 

 and scolloped by all the strong carinse. Labium, well detached from 

 the body-whorl, below the plane of the labrum above, slightly 

 rounded and nearly up to the plane of the labrum in the lower end. 

 Umbilicus, moderately _deep. Labral lamella, very sharp and narrow. 

 Operculum, deeply concave in the centre and minutely granulated ; 

 two or three microscopic lamellae crossing vertically, the edge all 

 round thickened and deeply reflected outward, the upper edge having 

 five or six deep irregular vertical folds. 



Height 0-027, greatest breadth 0-05.5, least breadth 0-042. 



Named in compliment to the Rev. R. T. Lowe, lately Chaplain in 

 Madeira, and the well-known contributor to the natural history of 

 that island. 



November 10, 1857.— Dr. Gray, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



Notes on an unnamed Parrot from the Island of St. 

 Domingo ; and on some other Species of the same 

 Family. By Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A. 



M. Auguste Salle has called my attention to the fact, that the 

 White-fronted Parrot of San Domingo, commonly regarded as the 

 immature state of Chrysotis leucocephala, is in truth quite a different 

 species from that bird. It may be distinguished at once by having 

 no red on the throat and a narrower white frontal band than the true 

 leucocephala, which is from Cuba. M. Salle, who has had ample 

 opportunities of observing this bird in its natural state, is confident 

 as to its distinctness, and I have no doubt he is quite right. Under 

 these circumstances, I propose to call the San Domingan bird, which 

 has not yet received a specific designation, Chrysotis Sallcei, — a just 

 ribute to one who has made such extensive discoveries in the 



