AMALIA PARRYI, A SUPPOSED NEW SPECIES. 



By WALTER E. COLLIXGE, F.Z.S., 



Mason ColUgi.', Biymingham. 



In the last number of the Journal' I described and figured the 

 generative system of a species of Amalia from Santa Cruz, 

 Tenerife, which I thought might be referred to A . marginata, 

 Urap. The examples I compared it with are, I find, but poor 

 specimens of Draparnaud's species ; but I have recently received 

 from Mr. F. Babor, of the Institute of Comparative Embryology 

 of Prague, two examples in excellent condition, from which it is 

 at once evident that I am wrong in classing the Tenerife speci- 

 mens under this species. Mr. Babor suggests that it is the 

 variety raymondiana, Simr.,- of A. gagates, which is the same as 

 inadcrensis, Ckll.- 



I have compared it carefully with the descriptions of the 

 above, and also with Cockerell's descriptions •'of A. fuliginosa 

 (Gould), A. antipodavum (Gray), and its \arieties pallida, (Ckll.,) 

 and emarginata (Hutton), all of which are less distinct from 

 A. gagates than this; in fact, maderensis (= raymondiana) and all 

 the above-mentioned forms seem to me to be only colour 

 variations of A . gagates, and I think both externally and intern- 

 ally there are sufficient points of difference in the Tenerife 

 specimen to separate it from gagates, chiefly in the form of the 

 oviduct and free oviduct, sperm duct, receptaculum seminis, and 

 hermaphrodite gland. I shall, therefore, name it after Lieut. - 

 Colonel G. S. Parry, to whom I am indebted for the specimens. 



1 Journ. Malacology, 1S94, vol. iii.. pp. 70-73. 



2 Nova Acta, i8gi. 



3 .\nn. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1891, p. 334. 



4 Ibid, p. 339-40. 



