o2 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Feiday, April ISth, 1894. 



W. n. IIuDLESTON, F.R.S., etc., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following- were elected Members of the Society : — Daniel John 

 Adcock, E. W. Lowell, A. H. Christie, Sithiey C. Clapham, 11. F. 

 Damon, Maj.-Gen. L. Tripe. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Notes on the variation and habits of Schizoglossa Novoseelandica, 

 Pfr.," by 11. Murdoch. 



2. "Descriptions of Marine Shells from the neighbourhood of 

 Hong Kong," by G. B. Sowerby, F.L.S. 



3. " Note on Verticordia ehurnea, Wood-Mason and Alcock, of 

 which V. optima, G. B. Sow., recently published, is a synonym," 

 by G. B. Sowerby, F.L.S. 



[abstract.] 



The author stated that by an oversight he had described an example 

 of this species as new under the name of Verticordia optima in a paper 

 read before the Society on November 10th, 1893, and pubhshed in the 

 " Proceedings," Vol. I. p. 39, PL V. Fig. 3, and had discovered the 

 fact just too late to stoji publication. Verticordia ehurnea, Wood-Mason 

 and Alcock, was described in the Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History, vol. viii. (1891), p. 447. The specimens were dredged at a depth 

 of 188 fathoms off Port Blair by the Indian Marine Survey steamer 

 " Investigator," and the original type, which was a trifle larger than 

 the sjiecimen described by the author, was in the Indian Museum at 

 Calcutta. 



4. " Note on Natica sordida, Phil.," by H. K. Jordan. 



5. " Notes on Buccmum undatum, Linn." : [a) a new white variety, 

 by H. K. Jordan; (h) variation at Southport, by G. W. Chaster; 

 (c) palfeontology, by G. F. Harris, F.G.S. ; {d) general remarks, by 

 E. R. Sykes, F.Z.S. 



Dr. H. Woodward exhibited a specimen of Xcptunia contraria, 

 Linn., from Vigo Bay, and a reversed N. antiqua, Linn., from the 

 English Channel ; also drawings of Cyclostoma articulatum, Gray, 

 ScissureUa MantelU, Woodw., and S. crispata, Flemg. 



Mr. Jordan exhibited a remarkably line series of ISfatica sordida, 

 Phil., from St. Bride's Bay, Pembrokeshire, 20 fathoms, exceeding in 

 dimensions the measurements given by Jeffreys for the species, and 

 described two varieties. He also exhibited a reversed example, sup- 

 posed to be unique, of Sipho gracilis, Da Costa, which was probably 

 obtained from the North Sea ; and further, a white variety of 

 Buccinimi undatum, Linn., di-edged in 50 fathoms off the south-east 

 of the Shetland Islands. 



Mr. Chaster exhibited an interesting series of Buccinum, undatum, 

 Linn., from the neighbourhood of Southport, where the conditions of 

 the sea-bottom arc fairly constant. The shells present a strong family 

 likeness, and differ from the type in that the longitudinal ribs are 



