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the Rev. F. J. Stainforth, presented by him to Miss Augusta Hardcastle, 

 and Ijequeathed by her to the present possessor. It is remarkable for its 

 close-set overlapping ribs, forty in number, the usual total being eight or ten 

 less. Five other specimens are shown for comparison ; the largest of these 

 five is the Dalmahoy specimen, which possesses thirty-four ribs. A small highly- 

 coloured five-ribbed variety is also noteworthy ; (/;) Lafiriis pnTslantior 

 (Melv. ), a new species, described 1892, allied to L. castancus (Reeve), also 

 exhibited for comparison, at present unique, from Sir David Barclay's col- 

 lection, probably Mauritian ; (c) Cypma chrysalis (Kiener), rediscovery, by 

 the exhibited specimen, of this lost species; (d) Cypraa amphithalcs (Melv.), 

 with its allies C. capensis {(jr2iy) and C. algoensis (Gray), this species uniting 

 the two forms Cypnvovula and Lupoiiia of Gray in its own person, all from 

 the Cape — the original type, a decorticated specimen, also shown ; (c) Tri- 

 chotropis bicai-inata (Brod. and Sowb. ), Arctic seas; (/) Gladius {^A^m) 

 \_ = Kos'e!larm (Lam.)], eight species of the genus, including G. maitinii 

 (Marrat) from Cebu, only one other specimen known, also 6^. /^Tc/j/i (Petit) ; 

 {g) Turbo splendidjtlus (Sowb.), received from Mr. R. D. Darbishire, hab. 

 ]\Iozambique, it is operculated, only two other specimens are known ; 

 {li) jSz^/r^/Zrt (Humphrey) \_=^ PhasianeUa (Lam.)], most of the described 

 species, including varieties of E. tritonis (Chem ), E. bulimoides, E. san- 

 giihica, and others ; (z) Vanikoro (Quoy and Gaimard) S^ = Narica (Recluz)], 

 fourteen species of this rather anomalous genus; [k) Cylindrella (Br.) 

 [= Uiocoptis (Desh. )], about no species, including six species oi Ettcalodiuni 

 and two of Afegaspira ; (/) Acroptychia metableta (Crosse), a Cyclostomid 

 with regular scalariform varices, its allies A. (tqw'voca, A. leai (Br.), and 

 A foliacta; {111^ Helkina viridis (Lam. ), an emerald-green species, with 

 scarlet blotches, two specimens; («) Cardinin deshayesii (Payr. ), from the 

 Mediterranean Sea ; [o) Corbis {Gafrarmui) sozverbyl (Reeve), a rare shell, 

 with transverse frilled varices, Eastern Pacific. 



By Mr. W. Moss : (a) Shells from Trinidad and Lifu, Loyalty Islands ; 

 (^) Radulse under the microscope ; (t) Micro-photographs of Radulce. 



By Mr. Thos. Rogers : Shells collected during ship's detentions at ports 

 from Zanzibar to Cape Town, by J. Gibbons, M.B. 



By Mr. R. Standen : {a) Limm^a stagnalis, varieties, and numerous 

 'locality' series ; {b) British Sphcerium and Dreissena ; {c) Pholas crispata, 

 illustrating a new method of preserving the siphons. 



By Mr. R. Cairns : Helix nemoralis from Hawick ; a number of varie- 

 ties of //. itala and Bulimus aciitus from Peel, Isle of Man ; Hyalinia 

 draparnaldi and H. aspersa monst. sinistrorsum and monst. scalarifor/ne, 

 also from Isle of Man. 



By Mr. Lewis Shackleford : South Australian Telliiicr. 



By Mr. F. W. (Gamble : Hancockia eudactyla Gosse, from Plymouth, 

 with enlarged drawing of the animal. 



By the Manchester Museum : («) JMagiliis antiqiiiis in coral ; {b) Acha- 

 tinellidffi from the Sandwich Islands; (c) Shells from the Albert Nyanza, 

 collected by Emin Pasha. 



