2 rUOCEEDlNGS OF THK WALACOtOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. E. R. 8ykes : A remarkably large example of Valuta Ponsonlyi. 

 As in previously recorded cases, this specimen was obtained from the 

 stomach of a fish. It measured 88 mm. in length. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 

 Friday, December 11th, 1903. 

 E. A. Smith, I.S.O., President, in the Chair. 



Cuthbert Freyberg and Capt. A. J. Peile were elected to membership 

 of the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On Pleuronautilus pulcher, sp. noT." By G. C. Crick, F.G.S. 



2. " Description of a new species of Cassis^ By E. A. Smith, I.S.O. 

 8. " On the Mollusca procured during the ' Porcupine' Expeditions, 



1869-1870." Supplemental Notes, part i. By E. R. Sykes, B.A. 



4. " Notes on the Nervous System of the Pelecypoda." By E.. H. 

 Biirne, B.A. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Mr. E. A. Smith: Epiphragms of Thawnadus Sangoce, Trosch., and 

 of Thdumadiis hitceniatus, Nyst. 



Mr. F. Ct. Bridgraan : Some rare species of Oliva. 



Mr. H. Fulton : The type-specimen of Cyprma Thatcheri, from the 

 collection of Dr. Cox. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, January 8th, 1904. 



E. R. Sykes, B.A., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. " On the genus Eurystoma of Albers, type riftataJ' By Lieut. - 

 Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.H.S. 



2. " On new Gastropoda from the Gulf of Oman, etc." By J. Cosmo 

 Melvill, M.A. 



3. " Description of Bertha'is, a proposed gen. nov. allied to Aclts." 

 By J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A. 



4. " On a curious centrally banded form of Oliva gihhosa, Born." 

 By J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A. 



5. " On the specific identity of Vivipara dihiviana, Kunth, and 

 Vivipara Clactonensis, S. V. Wood." By A. S. Kennard and B. B. 



Woodward, F.G.S. 



6. "Descriptions of new species of Ena, Pseudoglessula, and Suhdina 

 from British and German East Africa." By E. A. Smith, I.S.O. 



