Miscellaneous. l-iQ 



EUCRATEA CHELATA. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 



6 North Parade, Penzance, June 4, 1853. 



Gentlemen, — On June 17, 1852, I found this pretty Zoophyte 

 trailing over the pods of HaUdrys siliquosa, washed in beneath the 

 Hoe, Plymouth. On examining it under the microscope I found 

 what I then supposed to be ovicells. Shortly after I saw Mr. Hincks 

 in Exeter, when I told him that I had met with them, at which he 

 seemed surprised and somewhat doubtful. I promised to send him 

 some specimens, which he has so well described and delineated in the 

 Annals for March last. I have lately been able to confirm all his 

 remarks upon them, as during the past month (May 1853) I have 

 met with them in much greater abundance, and springing frequently 

 from the polypidoni. 



The zoophyte is plentiful on the outside of the bulb of Laminaria 

 bulbosa from St. Ives Bay on the north coast of Cornwall. I have 

 also succeeded in obtaining a view of the polype. The number of 

 tentacula are about ten. The polype is of a shy disposition and 

 does not protrude far from the cell, and appears to be slow in all its 

 movements. I shall have much pleasure in supplying the ovicells to 

 any person who may be desirous of possessing them. Mr. Busk, in 

 the' Catalogue of the Marine Polyzoa of the British Museum, has 

 named this species Scruparia chelata. 



I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, 



William F. Templbr. 



On a new species o/'Bulimus. By Lovell Reeve, F.L.S. 



BuLiMTJS Maconelli, Bul. testd acuminato-oblongd, tenuiculd, 

 suboblique convolutd, spird brevi, suturis rudibus, anfractibus qua- 

 tuor ad quinque, minute et creberrime spiraliter undulato-striatis, 

 ultimo valde inflato, columelld subcontortd, aperturd subampld, 

 labro simplici ; brunned, maculis parvis punctisquc nigris undiquc 

 pictd et seriatim fasciatd, maculis infra suiuras regularibus, aper- 

 tur(B fauce fuscescente. 



Hab. Brisbane, Moreton Bay, Australia. 



This fine species has been forwarded to me from the Manchester 

 Museum of Natural History, with the above name attached to it in 

 manuscript, by Captain Brown. It is chiefly remarkable on account 

 of its absolute similarity in texture, in colour, and in pattern, to Helix 

 Falconari of the same locality. It appears to differ in nothing but 

 in that difference of convolution which characterizes the respective 

 genera. Mr. Cuming possesses an exactly similar un-umbilicated 

 specimen ; and none of several examples of H. Falconari, with which 

 it has been compared and which are all largely umbilicated, present 

 any indication of an intermediate form. It is the first instance on 

 record of a strictly typical richly painted Bulimus and Helix agreeing 

 in colour, in pattern, and in all respects save that of form. — Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. June 24, 1851. 



