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JOURNAL OF MALACOLOGY. 



No. 2. Jui.v iiTH, 1904. Vol. XL 



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ON A COLLECTION OF MARINE SHELLS FROM 

 PORT ALFRED, CAPE COLONY. 



By EDGAR A. SMITH, I.S.O., 



British Mii-eum (Natural History) London. 



(Plates ii, iii.) 



In the early part of last year the British Museum received from Lieut.-Col. 

 W. H. Turton, R.E., a large series of shells collected by him at Port Alfred, 

 Cape Colony. The collection is of interest, as it contains a considerable 

 number of new forms and also a few others which are new to the known 

 fauna of South Africa. It also shows how rich in species this particular 

 locality evidently is. It has been thought useful and interesting to give a list 

 of the species as all were obtained at one place and within the short period 

 of two or three months. Besides the species enumerated, there are numer 

 ojs specimens which, being beach-rolled, (the whole collection having been 

 obtained on the shore), are beyond recognition. Others are too young to 

 be dealt with and a few belong to families, VermefvJae, Ostrcipiilae, etc., which 

 are extremely difificult to determine. Probably altogether about fifty species 

 are comprised in this unnamed material which are not include'd in the follow- 

 ing list, and Colonel Turton writes that he has upon a second visit to Port 

 Alfred found a considerable number of species which were not in his first 

 collection. It is not therefore improbable that some four hundred and fifty 

 species will eventually be recorded from this one locality. 



All the species about to be enumerated, excepting those new to the 

 fauna,*') are quoted and references given, either in Sowerby's 'Marine Shells 

 of South Africa," or in my paper in the Proc. Malacol. Soc, vol. v, pp. 

 354—402. 



T. Marked in the list with an asterisk. 

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