On Moths from East Africa. 375 



Only a single half-grown right valve. It is very much 

 shorter than the specimen figured, being quite as high as 

 long. The form becomes proportionally longer with age, as 

 the growth posteriorly is more rapid than veatrally. 



Tellina parvida, Smith. 



Tellina parvula, Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1895, vol. xvi. p. 10, 

 pi. ii. fig. 3. 



Hab. Off Colombo, in 675 fathoms. 



The single .specimen is rather larger than the type, being 

 I85 miliim. in length and 13 in heiglit. 



Scrohicularia ceylonica. 



Testa inaequilateralis, alba, nitida, lincis iucrementi striata, lumilata : 

 valvte tcniies, mediocriter profundte, antice late curvatae, postice 

 breviores, subacuminatae, anguste hiantes ; margo dorsi anticus 

 leviter coucavua, paruni desceiidens, posticus valde obliquus ; 

 margo ventris pone medium subincurvatus ; lunula angusta, 

 lanceolata ; ligamentum externum 5 miliim. longura, iuternum 

 parvum, angustum, obliquum ; dens cardinalis unieus in utraque 

 valva plus minus bifidus ; deutes laterales nuUi ; pagiua interna 

 radiatim substriata ; sinus pallii latus, profundissimus. 



Longit. 21 miliim., alt. 17, diam. 0. 



Hah. Off Colombo, in 675 fathoms. 



The internal ligament is quite separated from the external 

 one. 



Dofsinia salebrosa, Romer. 



Dosinia salebrosa, Romer, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 122 ; Novitates 

 Conch, p. 50. 



Hab. Malacca (Bdmer) ; west of Cochin, lat. N. 9° 34' 57", 

 long. E. 75° 36' 30", in 406 fathoms. 



A single specimen, a little smaller than the type, but 

 similar in other respects, is all that was obtained. 



LVI. — On a Collection of Moths from East Africa formed 

 by Dr. W, J. Ansorge^ Medical Officer to the Uganda 

 Administration. By W. F. KiRBY, Assistant in Zoolo- 

 gical Department, British Museum (Natural History). 



[Plate XIX.] 



DlTEiNG Dr. Ansorge's travels in some little-visited parts of 

 East Africa in 1893-1895 he formed a collection of moths, 

 among which were several new or rare species. In the present 



