234 Mr. Cosmo Melvill on the 



C. GalathcecB (Reinhardt). Pet J., 1872, p. 326. Of this 

 I know nothing. 



C. Jenningsia (Perry). Conch., pi. xix., f. 4. The 

 following is Perry's description :— Shell of a beautiful pink 

 colour, spotted with varied spots of a white colour, mouth 

 paler pink, furbelowed and undulated ; two dark brown 

 spots at each end. Unique in the cabinet of Mr. Jennings, 

 of Chelsea. 



The figure does not represent C. guttata (Gray), with 

 which some writers have supposed it identical, any more 

 than the description. It is most likely a large and highly 

 coloured variety of C. stapJiylcea (L.). 



Brief descriptions will also be found in Tryon. Man. 



Conch. Cyp., p. 207, of three unrecognised species. 



C. castanea (Anderson). 



C.parvida (Phil.). " ^Qd.r fimbriata;' 



C. trigonella (Dufresne). 



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(XV.) Eimmeration of Museums, etc., considted. 



In preparing this survey of the genus, for which I have 

 been collecting material during the last eighteen years, 

 besides utilizing my own specimens as much as possible, I 

 have on many occasions been carefully through all the vast 

 stores in the National Collection, South Kensington, where 

 Mr. Edgar A. Smith, of the Zoological Department, and 

 his assistant, Mr. Atkinson, have always been ready with 

 kind help. Frequent visits have been paid to the Museum, 

 Owens College, Manchester, where, in company with Mr. J. 

 R. Hardy, the curator, I have thoroughly examined, 

 classified and arranged the series of Cypnea, formed by 

 the united collections of Mr. Swainson, Mr. Walton, and 

 Mr. Cholmondeley. This contains some very interesting 

 forms. At Peel Park Museum, Salford, through the 

 courtesy of Mr. Plant, P'.G.S., the Lincolne collection, 



