THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



" per litora spargite museum. 



Naiades, et circum Titreos considite foutes : 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hie carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divse, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nyruphae Craterides, ifce sub undas ; 

 Ite, reeurvato variata corallia truueo 

 Vellite museosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Dese pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



If.Parthenii Giannefiusi, Eol. 1 



No. 31. JULY 1910. 



I. — Descriptions of Twenty-nine Species of Marine Mollusca 

 from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North 

 Arabian Sea, mostly collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend, 

 of the 1 ti do -European Telegraph Service. By JAMES 

 Cosmo Melvill, M.A., D.Sc, F.L.S. 



[Plates I. & II.] 



Three years have elapsed since the last paper was published 

 treating of the Molluscan Fauna of the Persian Gulf and its 

 dependencies. Since that time, mainly in 1907, Mr. Townsend 

 forwarded some fresh consignments, for the most part con- 

 sisting of dredged material from the neighbourhood of 



(a) Karachi, 



(b) Charbar, 



(c) Astola Island, 

 {d) Henjam I., 



(e) Bahrein Is., 



(f) Bunder Abbas, 



(g) Bushire, 

 (/«) Bombay, 



and it has taken a long time — indeed, the task is not yet 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. vi. 1 



