Zoological Society. 65 



des Poiss. ii. 99. pi. 1 ; Supp. to Petromyzon ; Shaw, Gen. Zool. v. 

 pt. 2. p. 261, X'^^A.-^Ammocoetes branchialis, var., Cuv. R«g. An. 

 ii. 118, 1817. 



Hab. Europe, Seine. 



3. x'Vmmoccetes concolor. Mud Eel or Blind Eel. 

 Ammoeoetes concolor, Kirtland, Boston Joum. iii. 4/3. pi. 27. 



f. la, b, 1841. 



Hab. N. America, ^lahoning and Scioto rivers. 



4. Ammoccetes bicolor. Coloured Mud Lamprey. 

 Ammoeoetes bicolor, Lesueur, Amer. Phil. Soc. (N. S.) i. 386. — 



Amtfioccetes bicolor, Storer, Fishes of Massachusetts, 198; De Kav, 

 Nat. Hist, of New York, 383, 679. f. 248. pt. 1 ; Zool. 1842. 

 Hab. N. America, Connecticut river. 



5. Ammoccetes unicolor. Plain Mud Lamprey. 

 Ammoeoetes unicolor, DeKav, Nat. Hist, of New York, 383. pi. 79. 



f. 250. pt. 1 ; Zool. 1842. 



Hab. N. America, Lake Champlain. 



Nov. 11, 1851. — W, J. Broderip, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The following paper was read : — 



Descriptions of sixteen new species of Rissoina. 

 By Arthur Adams, Surgeon R.N., F.L.S. etc. 



Rissoina, D'Orhigny. 



About eighteen species of tliis genus, as restricted by M. d'Or- 

 bigny, have been already described, inhabiting various countries. 

 Those here named are a portion of the discoveries made by Mr. Cu- 

 ming among the islands of the Philippine Archipelago, and are many 

 of them of considerable size ; and it is in these that the peculiarity 

 of operculum is best seen. 



The process of the semiovate, horny, subspiral operculum, first 

 pointed out by D'Orbigny, is sometimes very long and slender, and 

 very much resembles in appearance the analogous appendage of the 

 operculum of Nerita and Xeritina. The genus Jeffreysia of Alder, 

 or Rissoella of Gray, has a similar appendage, but the position of 

 the eyes, and the peculiar structure of the fore part of the head, 

 place the latter genus in a different family, viz. Pyrainidellidee. The 

 Rissoince may also readily be known from the neighbouring genus 

 Rissoa, by the aperture being somewhat channeled anteriorly, whereas 

 in Rissoa it is continuous and entire. The nature of the animal re- 

 sembles Rissoa, according to D'Orbigny, who places the genus 

 among the Melaniadce. 



1. Rissoina plicata, A. Adams. R. testd turrito-subnlatd, 



subpyramidali, albd, sordidd, anfractibus octo, planis, longi- 



tudinaliter valdh plicata, transversim striatd, plicis elevatis, 



postiek subangulatis, interstitiis transversim striatis ; aperturd 



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