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tura subquadrata ; umbilico aperto, perspectivo, margine valde 
crenulato ; labio recto, subreflexo ; labro postice angulato. 
Hab. South Australia. Mus. Cuming. 
A beautiful, small, turbinate species, with the whorls elegantly 
coronated and with their upper part white. 
IsAnpA Lepipa, A. Adams. JI. testa turbinato-conica, albido- 
cinerea, polita, umbilicata ; spira elatiuscula, anfractibus ro- 
tundis, suturis crenulatis; anfractu ultimo ad peripheriam 
subangulato ; umbilico perspectivo, peromphalo, crenato ; aper- 
tura quadrato-orbiculari ; labio rectiusculo. 
Hab. Australia. Mus. Cuming. 
This is a small species of a somewhat conical form, with the sutures 
of the whorls crenated, and of an ashy white colour. 
IsANDA suLcirerA, A. Adams. JI. testa orbiculato-conoidea, 
umbilicata, nitida; spira elatiuscula ; anfractibus quinque 
subplanulatis, postice angulatis, et sulco impressis, supremis 
ad suturas crenulatis et angulatis, ultimo transversim sulcato, 
ad peripheriam carina filiformi cincto; albida, lineis longitu- 
dinalibus, angulatis et undulatis, confertis, ornata; umbilico 
aperto, perspectivo, intus sulcato, margine crenato; apertura | 
subquadrata ; labio subrecto, crenulato. 
Hab. Philippines. 
In this species there is a conspicuous and deep groove round the 
upper part of the whorls near the suture. 
IsANDA PULCHELLA, A. Adams. J. testa orbiculata, depresse 
umbilicata, nitida; spira depressa, anfractibus quinque, con- 
vewiusculis, superne vie angulatis, levibus, inferne transversis, 
sulcatis, ad suturas corrugatis ; albida, lineolis fuscis, confer- 
tis, longitudinalibus, undulatis, maculisque fuscis, radiatim dis- 
positis pulcherrime picta; umbilico patulo, perspectivo, mar- 
gine crenulato; apertura transversa, subquadrata ; labio sub- 
calloso. 
Hab. Puerto Galero, Island of Mindaro, on the sands (H. C.). 
Mus. Cuming. 
The shell in this species is depressed and shaped as in Umbonium, 
but the umbilicus is entirely open, and the margin crenulated. 
13. OBSERVATIONS ON SOME RARE INDIAN ANIMALS, 
By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. 
(Mammalia, Pl. XXXV.—XXXVIII.) 
Mr. Hodgson having sent to the India House a specimen, with its 
skull, of his Tibetan Badger, Taxidea leucurus (Journ. Asiatic Soc. 
Bengal, xvi. 763, 1847), I have compared the skull with those of the 
various Badgers in the Museum collection. I find that all the Old 
World Badgers (Me/es) have a moderate-sized triangular flesh-tooth, 
