1871.] the secretary on additions to the menagerie. 699 



9. Paludestrina wisemaniana. 



Shell elongately conical, thin, semidiaphanous, epidermis light 

 green; apex acute; whorls 6 to 6|, convex, smooth, grooved at the 

 suture ; aperture ovate ; margins continuous, moderately thickened, 

 columellar margin reflected, outer lip edged with green and reflected. 



Length 2 lines, breadtli 1 line. 



Hab. Near Hobart Town, Tasmania ; common in all the creeks 

 (Legrand and Petterd). 



I take this opportunity of correcting a few errors that I have 

 made in a previous paper in these 'Proceedings.' 



Helix (Charopa) ammonitoides to be altered to Helix (Charopa) 

 bassi.—Vroc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 661. 



Helix (? Charopa) dispar to be altered to Helix (Piti/s) dispar. 

 — Proc. Zool. Soc. 1870, p. 661. 



This species is the only one I know of in Tasmania with the small 

 tooth in the interior of the aperture. We have H. bisulcata, said to 

 come from the same locality, but none so small as the present species, 

 which is somewhat like one that I have from Norfolk Island. 



A second communication from Mr. John Brazier, contained some 

 remarks on previously described species of Land-Shells, and stated 

 that Helix quintalce of Cox, P, Z. S. 1870, p. 82, should have been 

 written quintali, having been named at Mr. Brazier's request in 

 honour of Mr. Arthur Quintal, jun., of Norfolk Island ; also that 

 Helix ardua, Cox, P. Z. S. IV70, p. 82, had been collected by Mr. 

 Brazier at Vanua Lava, Banks's Group, as well as at Erromanga. 

 The name Helix vannee laves, Cox, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 82 (lege vanuce 

 lava) was stated to be a misnomer, the species not occurring in the 

 island of that name. 



December 5, 1871. 

 John Gould, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the 

 Society's Menagerie during the months of October and November 

 1871 : — 



The total number of registered additions to the Society's Me- 

 nagerie during the month of October 1871 was 95, of which 5 

 were by birth, 45 by presentation, 31 by purchase, 4 by exchange, 

 and 10 were received on deposit. The total number of departures 

 during the same period by death and removals was 106. 



The most noticeable additions during the month of October were 

 as follows : — 



1 . A third collection of animals from Chili, purchased (as on two 



