Zoological Society. 60 



LlTTORINID^. 



Amnlcola? antipodarum, Gray, Fauna New Zeal. 241. n. 101. 

 Auckland, New Zealand ; Major Greemvood. 

 Amnicola? Zelandise, Gray, Fauna New Zeal. 241. n. 102. 

 Auckland, New Zealand ; Major Greenwood. 



Amnicola ? u. sp. 



A single specimen, not in a good state. 



Auckland, New Zealand ; Major Greenwood. 



Majoi" Greenwood also sent two specimens of a marine shell. He 

 observes, that it was " entirely enveloped by the animal when alive." 

 It proved a new species of Lamellaria. 



Lamellaria Ophione. 



Shell oblong, elongate, pellucid, white ; spire very short, conical ; 

 whorls convex, last whorl very large, convex, rather iridescent ; aper- 

 ture ovate ; pillar-lip curved, slightly reflexed. 



Auckland, New Zealand. 



2. Descriptions of new species of Shells from the Cu- 



MINGIAN CoLLECTIOlJf. By ArTHUR AdAMS, F.L.S. 



i, Tellina sauAMULOSA. T. testd transversa, cequilaterali, 

 alba, concentrice in medio plicatd, plicis anyulatis subdisfan- 

 tibus, interstitiis longitudinaliter striatis ; regionibus latera- 

 libus squamulis spinosis, regione ventrali squamulis verrucosis 

 obsitd ; latere antico rotundato, postico subfiexuoso rostrato ; 

 area sulco impressd ; margine ventrali convexo, postici subjlex- 

 uoso. 



Hab. Cape York, North Australia ; collected by J. B. Jukes, Esq. 



2. Sangtjinolaria tellinoides. jS. testd transversd, incequi- 

 laterali, ufrinque hiante, rubiginosd, tenui, Icevi, striis trans- 

 versis concentricis radiatim lineolatd ; latere antico latiore, 

 rotundato; postico angustiore, rotundato, subrostrato ; ared 

 laterali lined laid impressd ; margine ventrali convexo, postich 

 valde sinuato. 



Hab. Gulf of California. 



3. Panop.ea Japonica, A. Adams. Pan. testd cequivalvi, trans- 

 versd, lateribus incequaliter hiante, incequilaterali, utrinque ro- 

 tundatd, albd, tenui, fragili, transversim concentrice plicatd, 

 plicis subdistantibus rotundatis ; latere antico breviore, pos- 

 tico duplo fere anticum superante ; margine ventrali arcuato, 

 integro. 



Hab. Japan. 



January 8, 1850. — ^Wm. Yarrell, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



1. Contributions to the knowledge of the animal of 

 Nautilus Pompilius. By J. Van der Hoeven. 



[This paper, which would be unintelligible without the plates, will 

 be published in vol. iv. of the Society's 'Transactions.' — Ed. Ann. 

 Nat. Hist.] 



