1870.] DR. J. C. COX ON NEW LAND SHELLS. 81 
from St. Victoire, France. It was purchased by the Society 30th 
April, 1866, and died 13th November, 1869. It proved to be a male 
on dissection. The specitic wing-markings being absent when the 
body was received by me, I thought proper to place it in Mr. George 
Gray’s hands for identification, This gentleman pronounced it, as 
appearing to him, no other than A. chrysaétos, Linn. The skin, being 
in poor condition, was not kept ; but the skeleton was retained by him 
for the National Osteological Collection. In case that any doubts 
might hereafter arise regarding the specimen, I considered that the 
history of the bird should be attached to the skeleton as well as 
published. Mr. Gurney coincided with me in this opinion, and at my 
request kindly forwarded the accompanying note for that purpose. 
“ Noy. 24, 1869. 
“My Dear Sir,—You will find in the volume of the ‘Ibis’ for 
1864, p. 339, the account of two young specimens of 4. barthelemyi 
which came into my possession in 1857, and the survivor of which 
six or seven years afterwards obtained the white scapular spots 
which are found close to the junction of the wing with the body in 
the Eagle to which the above name has been assigned. 
“These marks were very beautiful and conspicuous when I wrote 
the paper in the ‘Ibis’ above referred to; but subsequently to the 
specimen passing into the hands of the Zoological Society in 1866, 
they seem to have disappeared, and I conclude from what you tell 
me that they were not apparent in the bird at the time of death. 
“I doubt much whether Aguila barthelemyi be a race entitled to 
specific rank, but whatever it be, the bird in question which passed 
from my possession to that of the Zoological Society, and of which 
the skeleton is now in the British Museum, undoubtedly belongs to 
it, and is entitled to the name of 4. barthelemyi, if that name be 
recognized as of specific value. “Tam, &e., 
“J. H. Gurney.” 
9. Descriptions of Seventeen New Species of Land Shells 
from the South-Sea Islands, in the Cabinet of Mr. Joun 
Brazier of Sydney. By Dr. James C. Cox, C.M.Z.S. 
1. Hevirx ALLecta. 
Shell with a deep open funnel-shaped umbilicus, depressedly orbi- 
cular, thin, uniformly closely and strongly striated, the strize of a 
dull, dark-reddish chestnut-colour ; spire flat; whorls 43 to 5, con- 
vex, the last not descending in front; suture deep and excavated ; 
aperture rounded ; peristome simple, obtuse, columellar margin di- 
lated. 
Diam., greatest 0°10, least 0°08 ; height 0-04 of an inch. 
Hab. Upolu, Navigator’s Islands ; found on the mountains, under 
decayed wood (Brazier). 
Proc. Zoox. Soc.—1870, No, VI. 
