THE ANNALS 
AND 
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 
[SIXTH SERIES.] 
CAREERS per litora spargite muscum, 
Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes: 
Pollice virgineo teneros hie carpite flores: 
Floribus et pictum, dive, replete canistrum. 
At vos, o Nymphe Craterides, ite sub undas ; 
Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 
Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 
Ferte, Dex pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo.”’ 
N. Parthenii Giannettasii Eel. 1. 
No. 91. JULY 1895. 
1.—Natural History Notes from H.M. Indian Marine Survey 
Steamer ‘ Investigator, Commander C. F. Oldham, R.N.— 
Series II., No. 19. Report upon the Mollusca dredged 
in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea during the 
Season 1893-94. By Epaar A. Smith. 
[Plates I. & IT. } 
TuIs collection contains several very remarkable new forms, 
among which the two species of the new genus Pontiothauma 
are worthy of special notice. The Calliostoma, the Den- 
talium, the two new forms of Oryptodon are also species of 
considerable interest. ‘The occurrence of the characteristically 
Japanese Ranella perca in the Indian Ocean is remarkable, 
and the discovery of a British Lweina and an Atlantic 
Poromya in these southern latitudes is of still greater interest. 
Another instance of wide distribution is that of the Solenomya 
patagonica. In my former paper I also described a Lucina 
which was hardly separable from a species occurring in the 
Straits of Magellan. 
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 6. Vol. xvi. 1 
