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reception, and will perhaps prove to be congeneric with Miis 

 chiropus, lately described by me *, which also has the molar 

 teeth of }[us combin'^d with an oj)po3able hallux and a general 

 Chiropodomys- or Vandeleuria-Viko, form. Pending furtlier 

 investigation, liowever, I prefer to do as I did then, and leave 

 the new form in the genus Mas. 



I have taken the liberty of naming this beautiful little 

 species, which looks as if it would make a most enchanting 

 pet, in honour of Her Highness the Kanee of Sarawak, a lady 

 whose interest in the zoology of that country is scarcely 

 inferior to that of her husband the Rajah. 



LVII. — On a Small Collection of Land- Shells from Palawan 

 and BalahaCj Philippine Islands. By EdgAK A. SMITH. 



[Plate XVIII.] 



The British Museum has recently obtained a small collection 

 of land-shells, collected by Mr. A. Everett in Palawan and 

 Ralabac. Of the thirteen species it contains five appear to 

 be new. This large proportion of undescribed species is not 

 altogether surprising, as neither of these islands has been 

 thoroughly searched for McUusca. A list of the known 

 species was given by the Rev. A. H. Cooke in the Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. 1892, pp. 4G1-463. It comprises the species quoted in 

 the various papers by Hidalgo in the ' Journal de Conchylio- 

 logie,' 1887, pp. 36, 37-58, 93-19.>, 1888, pp. 30-97, and 

 in Dohrn's " Beitrag zur Conchylienfauna des philippiuischen 

 Insel Palawan " f. 



Including the new Lagochilus similis here described four- 

 teen species of land-moUusks have now been recorded from 

 Balabac. The Amphidromns qnadrasi, although appearing 

 in Mr. Cooke's list, was not previously known from Balabac, 

 but only from a small adjacent island called " Isla de Can- 

 daramanes " [Hidalgo). Another species from this island 

 quoted by Hidalgo % a»J not in Mr. Cooke's list of the 

 Balabac shells is Corasia zamboangce, Hombron and 

 Jacqninot. 



* Ann. Mus. Genov. (2) x. p. 884 (1891), and p. 03o (1892), pi xi. 

 figs. 4-7. 



t Nachrichtsblatt deutsch. nial Gesell. 1889, pp. 5:3-03. 

 X Mem. Acad. Madrid, If^OO, ml. xiv. p. lol. 



