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whorls tumid, the other with a long and slender spire and with 

 the whorls somewhat compressed. — H. W. 



' EXPLANATION OF PLATE V. 



Figs. 1 «, h. Ebora crassilabra, Conrad, enlarged to twice and a half. In 

 fig. 1 a i8 seen a circular hole made by a Natica or Buccinum. 



Figs. 2 a, b, Neritina Ortoni, Conrad. 



Fig. 3. iSi'esis bella, Conrad, enlarged. 



Figs. 4 o, b. Odostomia P, Fleming : fig. a, natural size ; fig. b, enlarged. 



Figs. 5 a, b. Aimothgris obliqua, Conrad : tig. a, anterior side ; fig. b, left 

 side. Natural size. 



Fig. 6. AnisofJigris cariuata, Conrad, left side. Natural size. 



Figs. 7 a-cl. Anisothyris HauxweUi, H.Woodw. : fig. «,left side, with valves 

 united ; fig. b, view of interior of left valve ; fig. c, view of inte- 

 rior of right valve ; fig. d^ valves imited, ventral margin, natural 

 size. 



Fig. 8 a. Anisothyris cuneata, Conrad, anterior side, valves united, 

 natural size ; fig. 8 b, right side. 



Fig. 9 a. Anisothyris erecta, Conrad, anterior side, valves united ; fig. 9 i, 

 left side, natural size. 



Fig. 10. Anodon Batcsii^ 11. Woodw., left side, natural size. 



XIIL — On Agulhasia Davidsonii, a neio PalUohranchiate 

 Genus and Species. By William King, Sc.D., Professor 

 of Mineralogy and Geology in Queen's College, Galway. 



[Plate XI. figs. 1-8.] 



My friend Mr. Thomas Davidson, F.K.S. &c,, has kindly 

 placed in my hands two specimens of an un described shell 

 (see PI. XI. figs. 1-7) possessing some unusual characters; and 

 as he wishes me to describe it, I most willingly undertake what 

 is to me a pleasing duty. 



After some consideration I have come to the conclusion that 

 the shell must be regarded not only as a new species, but as 

 typical of a new genus ; and as such I am, for the present, dis- 

 posed to place it in the family Terebratulidae*. 



Genus Agulhasia, mihi. 



Diagnosis. — Areigerous. Beak pointed. Deltidiiim closed 

 by a plate fixed to the inner surface of the area. Foramen at 

 the cardinal termination of the deltidimn. Loop short, slightly 



* I have elsewhere (Proc. Dublin Uuiversitj- Zool. & Bot. Assoc. 

 1859, vol. i. pp. 517, 518) restricted the family Terebratulidje to genera 

 with a small loop &c., as in Icrcbratida vitrea ; and have included tho.sc 

 with a long loop and some other difierential characters in a distinct 

 family, which I ha\'e named Waldheimiidiv, after the typical genus. 



