120 THE NAUTILUS. 
Girdle densely clothed with short, hyaline spicules, the tufts repre- 
sented by inconspicuous clumps of slightly longer spines. Length 
23, breadth 13 mm. 
Port Jackson, N.S. Wales, (Dr. J. C. Cox !) 
Acanthochites Matthewsi Bednall & Pilsbry. 
Much elongated, keeled, flesh-tinted with several olivaceous for- 
ward-converging zigzag bands on each valve. Posterior margins of 
valves i-vii concave, beaks small. Dorsal areas narrow, rounded, 
with very fine, indistinct stri ; side areas having an indistinct diag- 
onal riblet; plewra longitudinally ribbed, lateral areas obliquely 
ribbed, the ribs more or less cut into granules. Tegmentum of 
post. v. short-ovate, slightly longer than wide, its front half ribbed, 
posterior half granulated. | Muero between the posterior third and 
fourth of the length of tegmentum, strongly hooked backward, the 
slope behind it very concave. Girdle narrow, tufts inconspicuous. 
Length, 26, breadth, 8 mm. 
South Australia. Collected by Mr. E. H. Matthews. The sculp- 
ture is totally unlike that of any other known Acanthochites. 
Illustrations of the above species will be given later. 
GENERAL NOTES. 
The death of Dr. Pau Fiscuer of Paris has been announced. 
Mr. C. W. Jonnson will spend the latter part of January in 
Cambridge, studying types of Diptera and Mollusca in the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology. 
Mr. E. W. Roper of Revere, Mass., has sailed for Jamaica where 
he purposes spending some time. 
Mr. A. W. Hanuam, formerly of Quebec, is now permanently 
located at Winnepeg. His address is “ The Bank of British North 
America, Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada.” 
