THE AXNALS 



AN'D 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SEMES.] 



" per litora spargite museum. 



Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes: 

 PoUice virgineo teneros h'lc carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divae, replete canistrum. 

 At V08, o Nymphae Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



N. Parthenii Gianneffati, Eol, 1 



No. 31. JULY 1910. 



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

 from the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, and North 

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

 of the Ihdo-Eiiropean 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 MoUuscan 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, 



(/>) Oharbar, 



(c) Astola Island, 



{d) Henjam I., 



(e) Bahrein Is., 



(/') Bunder Abbas, 



[g) Bush ire, 



(/i) Bombay, 



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

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