74 PllOClIEDINtiS OK TIH': M ALACOI.OGICAL SOCIETY. 



Family TURBINELLID^E. 

 Vasum I'RFQUENs, Mavor-Eymar, pp. (= Vohita lahiella, Fraas, -non 

 Lamarck). 



Family MELO^^GEXID^E. 

 Heligmotoma j^iLOTicujr, Mayer-Eymar. 

 "^'I'uGiMNA KoKNENf, MaycT-Eymar. 

 "^"TuDicLA UMBiLiCAKis, Mayei-Eymar. 



Family VOLUTID.Fl. 



VoLUTA Eeadnelli,^ R,. B. j^'ewtoD, nom. mut. {= Turhinella prisca, 

 Locaid, no7i Conrad ; Voluta Arabica, Mayer-Eymar, non Gmelin). 



Family HAllPID^. 

 Haepa jiutica, Lamarck. 



Family PLEUROTOMIDiE. 



*SuKcuLA iNGEixs, Maycr-Eymar. 

 PleuhotojVia Fajumionsis, Oppenheim. 



Family BULLION. 

 *BuLLA OASiDis, Oppculieim. 

 *]5. DESERTORDM, Uppenhcim. 

 AcEKA STRiATELLA, Lamarck. 

 *A. Stromeri, OppeDlieiin. 



IV. Observations on some new, or otherwise interesting, Gastro- 

 poda FROM the Eocene deposits of the Fayum. 



The following account deals with certain forms of Gastropods which 

 are of interest, either on account of good preservation or because of 

 some suggested alteration in their nomenclature ; it also includes 

 some new or unrecorded species from this area of Egypt. 



Lanistes antiquds, Blanckenhorn. PL III, Figs. 1, 2. 

 Cirrus, Orlebar, Journ. Bombay Branch Hoy. As. Soc, 1846, p. 243, 



pi. iii, fig. 18 (Geology Egyptian Desert). 

 AmpuUaria subcarinata, Bellardi, Mem. II. Aecad. Sci. Torino, ser. ii, 



vol. XV. p. 176, pi. i, fig. 10, 1854 (Foss. ^ummulit. Egitto), 



tw7i G. B. & J. Sowerby, 1822. 

 A. {Lanisteii) liolteni, Mayer-Eymar, Viertelj. Naturf. Ges. Zurich, 



vol. xlvi, p. 23, pi. i, figs. 1-2, 1901 (Gastropoden Uutertertiar 



Egyptens), non Chemnitz. 

 Lanistes antiquum, Blanckenhorn, Centralblatt Mineral., 1901, Ko. 9, 



p. 271, woodcut figures 1, 2 (Palaeogens in Aegypten). 

 L. fnihcarinatits, Oppenheim, PaLTontographica, vol. xxx, pt. iii, p. 277, 



pi. xxvi, fig. 1, 1906 (Alttertiiirer Faunen Agypten). 



Remarks. — During some palaeontological explorations in the Fayum 

 in 1902, Dr. C. "VV. Andrews was fortunate in collecting some 



^ Voluta Beadnclli, nom. mut. 



