PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 2G5 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Friday, 14th June, 1901. 



E. A. Smith, F.Z.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "Notes on Arloplianta, Xcstina, Nilgiria, and Eupleeta." By 

 W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S., etc. 



2. "On the Anatomy of Helix politissima, Pfeiffer, and its generic 

 position in the Ariophantinse." By Lieut. -Colonel H. H. Godwin- 

 Austen, F.R.S., etc. 



3. " Pleistocene Shells hitherto uni'ecorded from the Raised Beach 

 of Perim Island, Red Sea." By the Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, 

 F.L.S., etc. 



4. "On a Dibranchiate Cephalopod from the London Clay of 

 Sheppey." By G. C. Crick, F.G.S. 



5. "Description of Onithochiton Isipinqoensis, n.sp., from South 

 Africa." By E. R. Sykes, B.A., F.L.S., etc. 



6. " Description of Helicina Pelewensis, n.sp., from the Felew 

 Islands." By E. R. Sykes, B.A., F.L.S., etc. 



Exhibits were placed on the table by the following : — 



The Rev. R. Ashington Bullen : Specimens of Zimncea ehcles, Say, 

 from Lake Ontario. 



E. R. Sykes : A specimen of Valuta musica (Linn.) with its 

 operculum ; this species he gave reason to show should be regarded 

 as the type of the genus. Also the original drawings prepared for 

 Brookes' " Conchology." 



H. B. Preston: A large specimen of Conns proinetheus, Hwass., with 

 the periostracum, from Senegal. 



W. M. Webb : Specimens of Otostomus inglorius (Reeve), from 

 Mexico. 



W. T. Blanford, H. H. Godwin-Austen, G. C. Crick, R. Ashington 

 Bullen, and E. R. Sykes : Drawings and specimens in illustration of 

 their respective papers. 



