648 NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



eggs of 0. rubricata, all of which were slightly incubated. This 

 set of ec2S was also exhibited. 



Dr. James C. Cox showed a fine specimen of Valuta Beclnalli, 

 Brazier, from Port Darwin, and communicated the following 

 notes : — 



This species was first discovered by Mr. W. T. Bednall, of 

 Adelaide, S. Australia. Only a single specimen of it was 

 obtained, and it remained unique till 1893, when Mr. Sowerby, of 

 London, procured a second specimen. The one I now exhibit 

 makes, as far as I am aware, the third specimen known. The 

 original specimen was described by Brazier in the Proceedings of 

 this Society, Vol. iii. 1878, p. 81, pi. viii. fig. 3. Its habitat was 

 given as Port Darwin, N. Coast of S. Australia Length 39, 

 diam. 15 hnes. In 1880 the specimen, or a drawing of it with a 

 description, appears to have been sent to Mr. G. F. Angas in 

 London, who again described and figured it in tlie Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society for that year (p. 418, pi. xl. tig 1). He gives 

 its length as 3 inches, 4 lines; width 1 inch, 4 lines ( = to about 

 83 mm.). Sowerby's specimen was procured in 1893, and 

 described in the Proceedings of the Malacological Society of 

 London (January, 1894, Vol. i. pt. 2, p. 49). Mr. Sowerby con- 

 cluded that Bed nail's original specimen was immature, as in the 

 specimen described by Brazier and redescribed by Angas, the 

 outer lip is spoken of by Angas as simple. Brazier makes 

 no mention of the outer lip, but Sowerby says " the lip is covered 

 with a thick shining enamel overlapping and forming a distinct 

 margin to the body whorl," and in his beautifully executed figure 

 of his specimen he shows that two at least of the four chocolate 

 transverse bands— the two middle ones— show within the lip at 

 their termination. The specimen I now exhibit shows these dark 

 terminal spots to exist in the two lower transverse bands within the 

 lip, and I believe they did show at the third from the bottom, but 

 unfortunately the lip is chipped where they would have existed. 

 Mr. Sowerby's fine specimen measured 100 mm. long and 50 wide. 

 The specimen now exhibited is 105 mm. long and 48 wide, and 

 its markings on the- body whorls are almost identical with 



