380 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [June 9, 
striata, albida; spira elongato-conica, apice acutiusculo, sutura 
anguste marginata; unfr. 8, convexiusculis, ultimo ¥ longitudinis, 
antice ascendente, basi compresso, pone aperturam trisulcato ; 
apertura subverticali, reniformi, ringente ; columella profunde tri- 
dentata; perist. continuo, expanso, ad parietem appresso, lamina 
valida intrante juxta angulum purietis ; margine columellari late, 
profunde et depresse sinuato ; margine dextro superne sinuato, 
lamellis pluribus, quarum 4 longioribus, intrantibus munito. 
Long. 14, diam. 6 mill. 
Hab. Sierra Leone, West Africa (Coll. E. Higgins). 
This species is somewhat near HL. cyathostoma, Pfr., from Old 
Calabar, and is peculiar from the deep and depressed sinus in the 
left margin of the aperture. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXVII. 
Fig. 1, la. Aperostoma bartletti, p. 375. 
2, 2a. Cyane blandiana, p. 376. 
3 Monocondylea (Plagiodon) semisulcata, p. 376. 
4, 4a, Helix (Plectotropis) christine, p. 377. 



By (Plectotropis) mariella, p. 377. 
6. (Acusta) brevispira, p. 377. 
7. (Acusta) nora, p. 377. 
8, 8a. —— (Camena) constantie, p. 378. 
9. —— (Satsuma) albida, p.378. 
10. Clausilia (Phedusa) bensoni, p. 378. 
11, lla. Cyclotus taivanus, p. 378. 
12. Melaniella brevicula, p. 379. 
13. Dreissena swinhoei, p. 379. 
14, 14a. Helix (Corilla) damarensis, p. 379. 
15, Ennea (Gonospira) ringens, p. 379. 
June 9, 1870. 
George Busk, 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 month of May :— 
The total number of registered additions to the Society’s Mena- 
gerie during the month of May 1870 was 200, of which 45 were 
by birth, 54 by presentation, 83 by purchase, and 18 were animals 
received simply on deposit. The total number of departures during 
the same period, by death and removals, was 75, showing a net addi- 
tion of 125 individuals to the collection during the month. 
The most noticeable arrivals during the month were :— 
1. A male Deer, received May 5th along with a collection of 
other animals transmitted to the Society from Singapore by H.R.H. 
the Duke of Edinburgh. This Deer, of which the exact locality has 
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