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it does not possess the fine reticulations of that species. 

 Wlien the old cable was being hove in many things dropped off, 

 unfortunately, after leaving the water, and before tliey could 

 be shipped on board, and many more were knocked off by the 

 cheeks of the bow-sheaves ; and I saw a most lovely specimen 

 of this cone unfortunately so knocked off, I think about 

 2 inches longer * than the best of the couple I secured." — 

 F. W. T. 



We may add that the bulk of the Mollusca obtained at the 

 same time consisted of Coni of four or five species, none of 

 them of frequent occurrence. About one hundred C. plani- 

 liratus, Sowb., hitherto only dredged at two points on the 

 Malabar coast ; C. acitfangulus, Brug., not uncommon; and 

 two species, probably new, were present more rarely. A Mar- 

 ginella, sp. n. ; two undescribed Pieurotomce ; with Drillia 

 Toyloriana, Reeve, Bostellaria curta^ Sow., Marex mala- 

 haricus, Smith, and Ficula i-eticulata, Lam.^ also occurred. 

 All were unfortunately more or less injured with the pitch, 

 manganese, and ferruginous oxide of the cable, being 

 indelibly stained. Others, again, were much riddled by 

 worms ; but a few remained in fairly good condition, and 

 by their epidermis showed that tliey had been live shells 

 when they came in contact with the cable. 



Two examples of the Conus clytospira, as already remarked, 

 occurred, both specimens agreeing save in coloration, one 

 being paler than the other, with ochraceous markings. 



It is hoped that shortly they will be placed in our 

 National Collection, South Kensington, and, we may add, it 

 is our intention to have them figured ; but this will probably 

 not be until the full account we contemplate writing of all 

 the Molluscan collections of Mr. Townsend formed since 

 1893 in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf is published. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



The History of the European Fauna. By R. F. Scharff, B.Sc, 

 Ph.D., Keeper of the Natural History Collections, Science and 

 Art Museum, Dublin. Contemp. Sci. Series. London : W. Scott, 

 Ltd., 1899. 



Dr. Sohaeff's association with the coroprehensive study of our 

 European fauna is so well recognized that the present volume 

 comes as the realization of a desire by his friends and sympathizers 

 that he would give us his views in a more extendt d and popular 

 form than they have hitherto assumed. This he has now done ; 



* This specimen would therefore have been 7 inches lung. 



