60i REPORT — 18G3. 



ploring the regions south of the political boundarj, similar explorations, on 

 a less extensive scale, Avere being made iinder the direction of the British 

 (government. The naturalist to the Briti.sh North American Boundary Com- 

 mission, during the years 1858-1862, was J. Iv. Lord, Esq., F.Z.S. He made a 

 very valuable collection of shells in Vancouver Island and Biitish Columbia, 

 the first series of which was presented to the British Museum. The new 

 species were described by W. Baird*, Esq., M.D., E.L.S., in a paper com- 

 municated to the Zool. Soc, and published in its ' Proceedings,' Feb. 10th, 

 1863, pp. 66-70. — Another series of shells, from the same district, was pre- 

 sented to the Brit. Mus. by the Lords of the Admiralty, collected by Dr. Lyall, 

 of H. M. Ship ' Plrmiper.' Two new species trom this collection were described 

 by Dr. Baird, in a separate paper, P. Z. S., Feb. 10th, 1863, p. 71. The new 

 species from Mr, Lord's collections have been drawn on stone by Sowerby. 

 The figure-numbers here quoted correspond with the proof-copy kindly fur- 

 nished by Dr. Baird. — A third series was collected by Dr. Forbes, R.N., in the 

 same Expedition. After Mr. Cuming had made his own selections, this passed 

 into the ordinary London market. It contained several species of peculiar 

 interest. The following are the (supposed) new species of the Survey : — 



P.Z.S. Plate I; 



Page; No. Fig. 



60 1 1. Chrysodonms tahidatuSy'Bdhdi. One broken specimen, EsquimaltHarh,, 

 Vancouver Island, Lord. [One perfect shell, Neeah Bay, Stran.'] 



,, 2 2. Vitidaria aspera, Bd. Several living specimens, Esquimalt Harb., 

 Vane. Island, Lord. [Belongs to a group of grooved muricoid Pur- 

 purids, intermediate between Rhizocheilus and Cerostoinn, for which 

 the subgenus Oriiwbra may be reconstituted. These shells are the 

 rough form of Ocinebra hrrida, Midd.] 



07 3 3. CJie7)iHitzia Vancoin'erensis, lid. \^=tQrqimta, GIA.'\. EsquimaltHarh., 

 Vane. Island, Lord. From the crop of a pintail Duck. [The 

 artist has failed to represent the peculiar character of the species, 

 which is, that tlie ribs end above the periphery, so that a smooth 

 belt appears round the spire above the sutures.] 



,, 4 4. Amnicola Hindm, ]5d. Seven sp., Kiver Kootanie East; nine sp., 

 Wigwam River, west slope of Rocky Mts., 4G26 ft. liigh, Br. Col., 

 Lord. Resembles Paludina \_Flmnimcolci] .seminalis, lids. 



., 5 5. Btdlinn(Tor»atma) e.(Wiin,Jid. Esquimalt Harb., V. I., io?Y?. Alive 

 in 12 fm. ; dead in Duck's stomach. [Not Bidlina, Add. Gen.] 



68 6 6. Succinea Haickinsii, Bd. Six sp. Lake Osoyoos, Brit. Col., Lord. 



7 7. Linmcea Sumossii^, Bd. Like i. elodes, Say. Plentiful. Suraass 



Prairie, Eraser R., Brit. Col., Lord. [Extremely like L. pahistris.'] 



. . 8 8. Physa Lordi, Bd. Plentiful. Lake Osoyoos, British Columbia, Lord. 



[Larger than Ph. hnmerosa, Gld., and with strong columellar fold.] 



69 9 9. Ancylus Kootaniensis, Bd. Six sp.. River Kootanie Eastj live sp., 



River Spokane, British Columbia, Lord. 



* It is due to the memory of Dr. Kennerley, as well as to the other natuvahsts con- 

 nected with the various American surveys, and the officers of the Smiths. Inst., wlio so 

 generously entrusted to the writer their unique specimens for comparison with the 

 London museums, to state, that (with two exceptions) the new marine species of the 

 British Survey would have been published long before the appearance of Dr. Baircl's 

 paper, but for the derangement of the U. S. natural-liiatory publications, consequent on 

 the secession movement. Although the Smithsonian Inst, had offered to present to 

 the Brit. Mus. their first series of duplicate specimens from these expeditious, which 

 ■was exhibited at the Manchester Meeting of the Brit. Assoc, where this Report w.is 

 called for, no notice was given to the writer of the valuable results of the British 

 survey; and it was only through the private kindness of Drs. Sclater and Baird that 

 he was prevented from adding to the list of synonyms, already, alas ! so numerous 

 and perplexing. 



f These species are named after places, not after persons, as would be supposed 

 by the terminations. qn 



