604 REPORT 18G3. 



ploring the regions south of the political boundary, similar explorations, on 

 a less extensive scale, were being made under the direction of the British 

 Government. The naturalist to the British North American Boundary Com- 

 mission, during the years 1858-1862, was J". K. Lord, Esq., F.Z.S. He made a 

 very valuable collection of shells in Vancouver Island and British Columbia, 

 the first series of which was presented to the British Museum. The new 

 species were described by W. Baird*, Esq., M.D., F.L.S., in a paper com- 

 municated to the Zool. Soc., and published in its ' Proceedings,' Feb. loth, 

 1863, pp. 66-70. Another series of shells, from the same district, was pre- 

 sented to the Brit. Mus. by the Lords of the Admiralty, collected by Dr. Lyall, 

 of H. M. Ship * Plumper.' Two new species from this collection were described 

 by Dr. Baird, in a separate paper, P. Z. 8., Feb. 10th, 1863, p. 71. The new 

 species from Mr. Lord's collections have been drawn on stone by Sowerby. 

 The figure-numbers here quoted correspond with the proof-copy kindly fur- 

 nished by Dr. Baird. A third series was collected by Dr. Forbes, R.N., in the 

 same Expedition. After Mr. Cuming had made his own selections, this passed 

 into the ordinary London market. It contained several species of peculiar 

 interest. The following are the (supposed) new species of the Survey : 



P.Z.S. Plate I. 



Page; No. Fig. 



66 1 1. Chrysodomus tabulatus, Baird. One broken specimen, Esquimalt Harb., 

 Vancouver Island, Lord. [One perfect shell, Neeah Bay, SwnnJ] 



. . 2 2. Vitularia aspera, Bd. Several living specimens, Esquimalt Ilarb., 

 Vane. Island, Lord. [Belongs to a group of grooved muricoid Pur- 

 purids, intermediate between Rhizockeilus and Ceroatoma, for which 

 the submenus Ocinebra may be reconstituted. These shells are the 

 rough form of Ocinebra hi-rida, Midd.] 



07 3 3. Chemnitzia J r anco>rverensis, Bd. \_-torqnata, Gld.]. Esquimalt Havb., 

 Vane. Island, Lord. From the crop of a pintail Duck. [The 

 artist has failed to represent the peculiar character of the species, 

 which is, that the ribs end above the periphery, so that a smooth 

 belt appears round the spire above the sutures.] 



.. 4 4. Amnicola Hindsii, Bd. Seven sp.. River Kootanie East; nine sp., 

 Wigwam River, west slope of Rocky Mts., 4626 ft, high, Br. Col., 

 Lord. Resembles Palitdma [Fhimimcola]seminalis, Hds. 



.. 5 5. Bullina ( Tornatina) eximia, Bd. Esquimalt Harb., V. L, Lord. Alive 

 in 12 fin. ; dead in Duck's stomach. [Not JBuUina, Add. Gen.] 



68 6 6. Succinea Haivkinsii, Bd. Six sp. Lake Osoyoos, Brit. Col., Lord. 



7 7. Limnaa Sttmassii^, Bd. Like L. elodes, Say. Plentiful. Sumass 



Prairie, Fraser R., Brit. Col., Lord. [Extremely like L. palustris.'] 



8 8. Physa Lordi, Bd. Plentiful. Lake Osoyoos, British Columbia, Lord. 



[Larger than Ph. humerosa, Gld., and with strong columellar fold.] 



69 9 9. Ancylus Kootaniensis, Bd. Six sp., River Kootanie East; five sp., 



River Spokane, British Columbia, Lord. 



* It is due to the memory of Dr. Kennerley, as well as to the other naturalists con- 

 nected with the various American surveys, and the officers of the Smiths. Inst., who so 

 generously entrusted to the writer their unique specimens for comparison with .the 

 London museums, to state, that (with two exceptions) the new marine species of the 

 British Survey would have been published long before the appearance of Dr. Baird's 

 paper, but for the derangement of the U. S. natural-history publications, consequent on 

 the secession movement. Although the Smithsonian Inst. had offered to present to 

 the Brit. Mus. their first series of duplicate specimens from these expeditious, which 

 was exhibited at the Manchester Meeting of. the Brit. Assoc., where this Report was 

 called for, no notice was given to the writer of the valuable results of the British 

 survey; and it was only through the private kindness of Drs, Sclater and Buird that 

 he was prevented from adding to the list of &YUOI vuis, already, alas! so numerous 

 and perplexing. 



f These species are named after places, not after persons, ae would be supposed 

 by the terminations. q 



