THE ANNxlLS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTOEY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 



" per litora spar-jite museum. 



Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite foiites : 

 PoUice virgiiieo teneros h'lc carpite flores: 

 Floribus et pietum. divse, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o Nymphae Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, reourvato vaviata corallia trunco 

 A''ellite museoaia e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deaj pelagi, et pingui conehjlia suooo." 



iV. PartheniiGiannettasi, Eel. 1. 



No. 79. JULY 1904. 



I. — Natural History Notes from H.M. Indian Marim'- Sarveji 

 Steamer ' Invest iff at or/ Commander T. H. Heiniag, R.N. — 

 Series III., No. 1. On Mollusca from the Bay of Betujal 

 and the Arabian Sea. By Edgar A. Smith^ I.S.O. 



[Concluded from vol. xiii. p. 473.] 



Capulus lissus, Smith. 



Cajmlvs lissus, Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1894, vol. xiv. p. 16(3, 

 pi. iv. Gg^. 4-6. 



Hab. Stations 233, 236, 237, and 240, off Andamans, 90- 

 303 f'ath. ; off Travancore coast, 360 fath. 



Very frequently young specimens are found adhering to 

 older examples. The shape is variable and the outline of 

 the aperture often very irregular, the irregularity being 

 occasioned by the different surfaces to which the specimens 

 have been attached. The general cap-shaped form is, how- 

 ever, persistent. 



Capulus fragilis, sp. n. 



Testa tenuis, depresse pileiformia, pellucido-albida, periostraco teinii 

 rtavescente iiidiita, lineis incrementi tenuissimis sculpta, intus 



Ann. d: Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 7. Vol. xiv. 1 



