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as above described. Mammse six, one axillary and two inguinal 

 pairs. Skull and teeth as described above. 



Hab. Sogere, S.E. New Guinea ; altitude 1750 feet. 



Dimensions of the type, an adult female, in spirit : — Head and 

 body 156 millim. ; tail 222 ; hind foot 30 ; fore arm and hand 42'5 ; 

 ear (above crown) 17 ; head 43 ; muzzle to eye 18'8, to ear 35'5 ; 

 heel to front of last foot-pad 15 ; length of the pad G-8. 



Skull. — Basal length 34-0, greatest breadth 22-8 ; nasals, length 

 12'3; interorbital breadth 57; interparietal, length 4-8, breadth 

 9'3 ; infraorbital foramen, height 5-8, length of outer wall 4 0, 

 distance from its outer corner to that of its fellow 11 '0; palate, 

 length 20-0, breadth outside ^ 7"0, inside m^ 4-0 ; palatal foramen, 

 length 5'2 ; diastema, length 11"3; length of molar series 5'. 5, of 

 m^ 2-5, of m^ 1'7, of ^ 1-5; basicranial axis 11-0, basifacial axis 

 23'0. Length of lower jaw (bone only) 23-8, (to incisor tips) 27"0. 



4. On some Land-Mollusks from Burmah, witli Descriptions 

 of some new Species. By Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin- 

 Austen, F.B.S., F.Z.S., &c.— Part I. 



[Eeceived March 23, 1888.] 



The following list comprises the shells which have reached me since 

 our late occupation of the above country. The first batch were col- 

 lected and sent me by my former assistant in the Survey, Mr. M. Ogle, 

 from the districts on the Kyeng-dwen, or Chindwen, east of Munipur. 

 The second I have lately had placed in my hands by Mr. J. Ponsonby, 

 who received them from Captain Spratt, R.A., from Ujjper Burmah, 

 where that officer has been employed during the late military 

 expeditions. The shells are not in a good state of preservation, 

 and no doubt were collected under very considerable difficulties as 

 regards leisure and deficiency of carriage. There are many new 

 forms, showing what a rich harvest awaits the naturalists who could 

 devote more time and care to the work. We trust that Captain 

 Spratt (son of Admiral Spratt, a life-long worker at the Mollusca) 

 will yet be able to add still more to our knowledge of the species to 

 be found in our newly acquired territory. 



I propose in this communication to describe the shells collected 

 by Captain Spratt. Hlindet, where most of them were obtained, is 

 situated on a tributary of the Irrawaddy, which, rising in the hills 

 south of Mandalay, flows north to join that river at the sharp bend 

 below that town. It is through this valley that the new line of 

 railway is to run to the capital from Toungoo. 



The late Mr. Francis Fedden, of the Geological Survey, visited 

 this part of Burmah and the Salwin valley, in 1864-65, and brought 

 back with him a good many specimens of land-shells, which were 

 described bv Mr. W. Theobald in the Journal of the Asiatic Society 

 for 1870. 



