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gine the Truncatella dubiosa of the late lamented Professor C. B. 
Adams to be a species of Tomichia. 
On the side of the foot is seen a dark line, which indicates 
the position of the opercular lobe. In one species, from Mat- 
sumai, this dark-coloured lobe is more conspicuous than in the 
other, from Sado. 
Both species are found on damp banks covered with vegetation, 
in rocky situations near the sea. 
The colour of the long head and flattened rostrum is hght 
blackish-brown ; and the foot is pale brown, with the sole nearly 
white. The obtuse tips of the triangular tentacles are dark, 
and may have induced Mr. Benson to name Diplommatina (a 
genus not far removed in organization from Tomichia) the 
“ double-eyed,”—the existence of two eyes on each side being 
extremely improbable. 
Shanghai, Feb. 20, 1860. 
XIX.—Description of a new species of Cassowary living in the 
_ Menagerie of the Babu Rajendra Mullick at Calcutta. By 
Epwarp Bryru, Curator of the Royal Asiatic Society’s Mu- 
- seum, Calcutta*. 
CASUARIUS UNO-APPENDICULATUS, nobis, n. s., is so named from 
its peculiarity of having but a single pendulous caruncle in front 
of the neck. Specimen apparently more than half-grown, and 
much paler in the colouring of its plumage than specimens of the 
same age of the common C. galeatus, two fine examples of which 
are associated with it in the same paddock. In lieu of the two 
bright-red caruncles of the latter, the new species has but a 
single, small oblong or elongate-oval, yellow caruncle ; and the 
bright colours of the naked portion of the neck are differently 
disposed. The cheeks and throat are smalt-blue, below which is 
a large, wrinkled, yellow space in front of the neck, terminating 
in front in the oval button-like caruncle, and its lower portion 
being continued round behind ; while on the sides of the neck the 
yellow naked portion is continued down to its base, the bordering 
feathers more or less covering and concealing this lateral stripe 
of unfeathered skin: on the hind part of the neck the bare 
yellow skin is not tumid and corrugated as in the common 
Cassowary, where also this part is bright red. The casque is 
about equally developed at this age in the two species. The legs 
of the new species are smaller, from which cireumstance I doubt 
whether it attains to quite so large a size as the othert. 
* From the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal (1869), vol. 
XXX. - 113. Communicated by P. L. Sclater. 
T It appears, by a letter from Mr. Westerman, that a living Casso- 
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