332 LiEUT.-coL. H. H. GODWIN-AUSTEN ON [June 18, 



smaller specimens ; the transverse dark bands on the body and 

 blotches along the median fins are faintly marked. The paddles of 

 the ventral fins are tipped with blackish brown, and were edged with 

 violet in the fresh specimen ; the general colour of which was a faint 

 pink, with yellowish tinge along the basal half of the dorsal and anal 

 fins. The abdominal cone is bright silvery ; it has no trace of a hind 

 marginal membrane. The caudal is subtruncate ; and, lastly, the 

 cylindrical hyaline warts on the nape are very prominent and distinct. 

 I believe that Eretmophorus belongs to the Gadid^ and approaches 

 that section to which Ualoporphyrus and Physkulus belong. I am, 

 however, inclined to think that its nearest ally may be the strange 

 pelagic Gadoid described a few years ago (' Naturalista Siciliano,' iii. 

 pi. 2) by my friend Dr. L. Facciola, from a single specimen got also at 

 Messina, and named Hypsirhynchus hepaticus, Face. Later two more 

 specimens were got at Naples, and I have one. Ilypsirhynchus, 

 which deserves to be more fully described, has much the size and 

 shape of Eretmophorus, but there is no abdominal cone and the 

 venti-als have seven rays, some of which are slightly prolonged and end 

 in a rounded head ; but no fish that I know of possesses anything like 

 the beautiful lanceolate ventral paddle-like blades of Eretmophorus. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXIV. 



Fig. 1. Enlarged scales of 'Eiretmojyhorus Jdeinenbergi. 



2. Younger specimen, natural size. 



3. Nearly adult specimen, slightly enlarged. 



4. Oldest or adult specimen, once and a half natural size. 



2. On a Collection of Land-Shells made in Borneo by Mr. 

 A. Everett, with Descriptions of supposed new Species. 

 By Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., F.Z.S., 

 &c. — Part I. Cyclostomacse. 



[Eeeeived June 1, 1889.] 



(Plates XXXV.-XXXIX.) 



Introduction. 



This truly fine collection was brought home in 1888 by Mr. A. 

 Everett, and he very kindly let me see it, and handed it over to me 

 for the identification of the species. In this work, which has been 

 delayed from various causes, I have been assisted very materially bv 

 Dr. R. Hungerford, who had a better and previous knowledge of 

 the shells from that part of the world, and had in his collection 

 examples of a good many Bornean species obtained from Sir James 

 Low, Mr. Boxall, and other sources. Mr. Edgar Smith has ako 

 given me much aid in looking over and comparing these shells with 

 those in the British Museum collection, and to both my sincere thanks 



