120 THE NAUTILUS. 



Girdle densely clothed with short, hyaline spicules, the tufts repre- 

 sented by inconspicuous clumps of slightly longer spines. Length 

 23, breadth 13 mm. 



Port Jackson, N. S. Wales, (Dr. J. C. Cox !) 



Acanthochites Matthewsi Bednall & Pilsbry. 



Much elongated, keeled, flesh-tinted with several olivaceous for- 

 ward-converging zigzag bands on each valve. Posterior margins of 

 valves i-vii concave, beaks small. Dorsal areas narrow, rounded, 

 with very fine, indistinct stride ; side areas having an indistinct diag- 

 onal riblet ; pleura longitudinally ribbed, lateral areas obliquely 

 ribbed, the ribs more or less cut into granules. Tegmentum of 

 post. V. short-ovate, slightly longer than wide, its front half ribbed, 

 posterior half granulated. Macro between the posterior third and 

 fourth of the length of tegmentum, strongly hooked backward, the 

 slope behind it very concave. Girdle narrow, tufts inconspicuous. 

 Length, 26, breadth, 8 mm. 



South Australia. Collected by Mr. E. H. Matthews. The sculp- 

 ture is totally unlike that of any other known Acanthochites. 



Illustrations of the above species will be given later. 



GENERAL NOTES. 



The death of Dr. Paul Fischer of Paris has been announced. 



Mr. C. W. Johnson will spend the latter part of January in 

 Cambridge, studying types of Diptera and Mollusca in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology. 



Mr. E. W. Roper of Revere, Mass., has sailed for Jamaica where 

 he purposes spending some time. 



Mr. a. W. Hanham, formerly of Quebec, is now permanently 

 located at Winnepeg. His address is " The Bank of British North 

 America, Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada." 



