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A LIST OF THIS MARINE MOLLUSCA IN THE BOMBAY 

 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY'S COLLECTION. 



By E. Comber, f.z.s. 



The subjoined list of the species of Marine Shells represented in the 

 Society's collection is published partly with the intention of placing 

 upon record the present extent of our collection, but to anyone with a 

 knowledge of the molluscan fauna of India it will mainly serve to indi- 

 cate the extremely scanty nature of the collection. Additions of any 

 moment have been disappointingly rare for a number of years past, and 

 it is to be hoped that the publication of this list will encourage con- 

 tributions from some of our members that may go to fill the many 

 large gaps in the list of even the commoner kinds of shells. 



The difficulty of identifying shells without the opportunity of actual 

 comparison with authentically named specimens and the absence of any 

 collective book of descriptions and figures of Indian shells is a consider- 

 able drawback to the study of them, but the Society will always gladly 

 receive unnamed contributions, and assist its members towards identify- 

 ing specimens in their own collections. The essential points with regard 

 to specimens of shells are that they should be obtained from living Mol- 

 luscas and that the locality should be carefully recorded, as dead, worn 

 shells or specimens without the locality are of little value in a collection. 



In compiling this list the nomenclature of Messrs. J. C. Melvill and 

 R. Standen's paper (Part I) on the Cephalopoda, Gastropoda and 

 Scaphopoda of the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea, which appeared in 

 the P. Z. S., 1901, p. 327, &c, has been followed so far as it applied, 

 and Mr. J. C. Melvill has very kindly corrected the list completely. 



A list of the Land and Freshwater Shells in the collection is also 

 published herewith, thanks to the assistance rendered by Mr. Edgar Smith 

 and Capt. A. J. Peile, R.A., who have obligingly corrected the list. 

 CATALOGUE OF MARINE MOLLUSCA 



IN THE 



Bombay Natural History Society's Collection. 



Nautilid.k 

 Akgosautidje 



ChITOXIDjK 



CEPHALOPODA. 



Nautilus pomptlius (L ) 



Argonauta Itiai>s (Soland) 



Amphineuua. 

 Chiton gigas (Chem.) ... 



Persiau Gulf. 



Durbau. 

 Bombay. 



