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submlcosd, transversim totd striata ; columella antice oblique 



plicatd ; labro extus Icevi, incrassato. 

 Hab. Guinea. 

 Buccinum concinnum, Sol. 



7. Cyllene orientalis, A. Adams. C. testa ovato-fusiformi, 

 albidd, maculis luteo-fuscis ornatd, longitudinaliter plicatd, 

 transversim striata ; spird prominuld ; columella antice per- 

 oblique sulcata, labro intus Icevi. 



Hab. Singapore, 6 fathoms, mud ; H. C. Malacca, 6 fathoms, 

 coarse sand ; H. C. 



8. Cyllene striata, A. Adams. C. testa ovatd, alba, maculis 

 rufo-fuscis ad suturas pictii, cingulis duabus maculorum luteo- 



fuscorum ornatd, longitudinaliter subplicatd, transversim totd 

 striata; columella antice oblique sulcata; labro tenui, intus 

 IcBvi, antice vxx sinuato. 

 Hab. Albrokkas Islands, under coral, low water ; Mr. Dring. 



9. Cyllene fuscata, A. Adams. C. testa ovatd, rufo-fuscd, 

 fasciis transversis obscuris articulatis ornatd, longitudinaliter 

 plicatd, plicis numerosis, subconfertis, superne et inferne trans- 

 versim valde striata ; columella antice valde corrugato-plicatd, 

 labro antice valde sinuato. 



Hab. W. Africa. 



10. Cyllene pallida, A. Adams. C. testa ovatd, albidd, lon- 

 gitudinaliter subsulcatd, obscure nodoso-plicatd, glabratd, su- 

 perne et inferne transversim striata ; columella antice plicis 

 obliquis, labro antice valde sinuato. 



Hab. West Africa. 



11. Cyllene grana, Lamarck. 



Buccinum grana, Lamk.; Kiener, Mon. pi. 16. fig. 58. 



12. Cyllene glabrata, A. Adams. C. testd ovato-fusi/ormi, 

 glabratd, cinered, fasciis albis tribus transversis rufo-articu- 

 latis ornatd, longitudinaliter subplicatd, plicis infernh evani- 

 dis, superne et inferne transversim striata ; aperturd angustd ; 

 columella antice oblique plicatd, labro antice subsinuato. 



Hab. Pasicao, 9 fathoms, fine sand ; H. C. 



November 12.— W. Yarrell, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



Professor Owen read a paper " on the Cranium of the large species 

 of Dinornis called giganteus and ingens*." He commenced by refer- 

 ring to a former memoir, in which four generic types of structure had 

 been determined in fossil crania of birds from New Zealand, viz. Nestor, 

 Not or a is, Palupteryx, and Dinornis proper ; and proceeded to de- 

 scribe an additional series of fossil skulls obtained by Governor Sir 

 George Grey from a cave in the district which lies between the river 

 \Vaikato and Mount Tongariro, in the North Island. The most re- 



* This paper will appear in the Transactions as Dinornis, Part V., in continua- 

 tion of Prof. Owen's previous memoirs. 



