360 Zoological Society. 



August 27.— Richard C. Griffith, Esq., in the Cliair. 



Mr. Fraser read a description of a new species of Crowned Pigeon 

 from New Guinea, now in the Gardens of the Society. In honour 

 of Her Most Gracious Majest}% the Patroness of the Society, he pro- 

 posed the name of 



LoPHYRUS Victoria*. L. ptilose saturate cteruleo-grisea ; singulis 

 plumis cristcE apice barbato aerulpo, albo mdrginato ; pectore cas- 

 taneo ; tectricibus alarum majoribus cinereo-cccruleis. castaneo 

 murginatis. 



The general colour of this sjDecies is an intense blue-grey, becoming 

 lighter on the head ; tlie chest is deep chestnut ; the larger wing- 

 coverts are light blue- grey, tipped with dark chestnut; the head is 

 surmounted with a crest, each feather of which is of a similar con- 

 struction as that of Columbus coronatus, but spreading into a sj^atu- 

 late form at the extremities, of a blue colour, bordered with white ; 

 there is also a dark mark passing through the eye ; irides vermilion. 



In size it is somewhat larger than C coronatus. 



Hab. New Guinea. 



This lovely species is closely allied to C. coronatus, but differs from 

 that bu'd in having terminal points to the crest-feathers, in the darker 

 colouring, in having chestnut on the breast instead of the back and 

 shoulders, and in having the larger wing-coverts pale blue-grey, ter- 

 minated with chestnut, in the place of white, tipped with chestnut. 



" Description of new species of Ranella," by LoveU Reeve, Esq. 



Ranella albivaricosa. Ran. testa oblong o-ov at d, depressiusculd, 

 varicibus tuberculis subspinosis prominent ibus armatis ; anfractibus 

 leviter angufatis, tuberculis subspinosis infra angulum biseriatim 

 armatis, transversim elevato-striatis, inferne liratis, striis lirisque 

 leviter undulatis, subtilissime granulatis ; alba, rufescente-fusco 

 tinctd, varicibus niveis ; aperturd oblongo-ovali, utrinque canali- 

 culatd,fauce pallide purpurascente ; labro dentato et sulcata. 



Conch. Icon,, Ranella, pi. 1. f. 2. 



Murex rana, Linnaeus ; Martini, Conch., vol. iv. pi. 133. f. 1270-71. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



How comes it to pass that this common and peculiarly character- 

 istic species has escaped the notice of so many good discriminating 

 conchologists who have written on the genus ? 



Ranella pdstulosa. Ran. testd ovatd, subdepressd, ponderosd, 

 castaned ; anfractibus jmstularum grandium seriebus duabus tri- 

 busve Uvido-castaneis cingulatis ; varicibus granuloso-liratis ; colu- 

 melld granuloso-rugosd, rugis albidis ; labro planissime fimbriato, 

 superne sinuuto,fusco, radiatim albisulcato. 



Conch. Icon., Ranella, jjI. 3. f. 11. 



Hab. Ascension Island. 



This shell approximates so closely to the Ranella ccelata in the 



* " Zop^n/s, Vieill. (181G); (rowm, Steph. (1819) ; Mcgopelia, Kaup 

 (1836) ; Plilophyrus, Swains. (1837)." G. R. Gray's * Genera of Birds.' 



