Bihlwgraphical Notices. 463 



it does not posssess the fine reticulations of that species. 

 Wlien the old cable was being hove in many things dropped oflF, 

 unfortunately, after leaving the water, and before they could 

 be shipped on board, and many more were knocked off by the 

 cheeks of the bow-sheaves; and I saw a most lovely specimen 

 of this cone unfortunately so knocked off, I think about 

 2 inches longer * than the best of the couple I secured." — 

 F. W. T. 



We may add that the bulk of the Mollusca obtained at the 

 same time consisted of Coni of four or five species, none of 

 them of frequent occurrence. About one hundred G. plani- 

 hratuSj Sowb., hitherto only dredged at two points on the 

 Malabar coast; C. acutangulus, Brug., not uncommon; and 

 two species, probably new, were present more rarely. A Mar- 

 gineJla, sp. n. ; two undescribed Pieurofomce ] with Drillia 

 Tayhriana, Ileeve, Bostellaria curia., Sow., Murex niala- 

 bancus, Smith, and Ficula reticulata^ Lam., also occurred. 

 All were unfortunately more or less injured with the pitch, 

 manganese, and ferruginous oxide of the cable, being 

 indelibly stained. Others, again, were much riddled by 

 worms ; but a few remained in fairly good condition, and 

 by their epidermis showed that they had been live shells 

 when they came in contact with the cable. 



Two examples of the Conus clytospira^ as already remarked, 

 occurred, both specimens agreeing save in coloration, one 

 being paler than the other, with ochraceous markings. 



It is hoped that shortly they will be placed in our 

 National Collection, South Kensington, and, we may add, it 

 is our intention to have them figured ; but this will probably 

 not be until the full account we contemplate writing of all 

 the ]\lolliiscan collections of Mr. Townsend formed since 

 1893 in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf is published. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



The History of tlie European Fauna. By II. F. Sci[arff, B.Sc, 



Ph.D., Keeper of the Natural History Collections, Scieiioc and 



Art Museum, Dublin. Contemp. Sci. Series. Lonchju : W. Scott, 



Ltd., 18'J9. 



De. Schaeff's association with the coinprohensivo study of our 



European fauna is so well recognized that the present vobime 



comes as the realization of a desire by his friends and sympathizers 



that he would give us his views in a more extendid and popular 



form than they have hitherto ossiimed. This he has now done ; 



* This specimen would therefore have been 7 incho-* long. 



