50 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



Comatula and some mollusca, and egg-cases of Loligo and 

 Sepia, mostly from Menai Straits and Conway Bay. 



By Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, F.L.S. — 



Four drawers of selected foreign mollusca from his collec- 

 tion — of which the principal are as follows : — 



Fifty species of Conus (L.) which included twenty-nine 

 original types, nineteen of them being unique specimens, viz. : 

 C. baccatus Sowb., C. bockii Sowb., C. brazieri Sowb., C. catena- 

 tus Sowb., C. carnalis Sowb., C. chytreus Melvill, C. dianthus 

 Sowb., C. die saveli H. Adams, C. enetrios Sowb. and Melvill, 

 C. eveljnce Sowb. and Melvill, C. gracilis Sowb., C.marchionatus 

 Hinds, /3 eiidoxtis Melvill, C. inelvilli Sowb., C. multilineatus 

 Sowb., C. raceniosus Sowb., C. refledus Sowb., C. si?idon Reeve, 

 C. iraversiaiivs E. A. Smith, C. wilmeri Sowb. Of these, 

 C. du saveli H. Adams is the most beautiful cone known, and 

 differs widely in several particulars from any other species. It 

 was found in 1870-71, in the stomach of a fish, at 60 fathoms, 

 off the North Coast of Mauritius. 



Some fine specimens of the five most highly esteemed of 

 the genus, C. gloria maris Chem., C. oniaicus Hwass, C. cedo 

 nulli Chem., C. rhododendron Couthouy, C. cervus Lamarck, 

 the last two being the original types of the species. 



Also C. fiiliiien Reeve, the beautiful type figured in his 

 ' Conchologia Iconica ' ; C. amini?-aUs L., C. archiihalassiis 

 Dillwyn, C. floccatus Sowb., C. magdalena; Kien, C. awisiacns 

 L., C. zonatus Brug, C. vidua Reeve, C. orbignyi Aud, and 

 others. 



In the genus Voluta L. several rarities were shown, perhaps 

 the most select being V. festiva Lam., from E. Africa — the 

 specimen formerly in the Dennison collection; V. junonia 

 Chem., a noteworthy shell of extreme rarity from the Gulf of 

 Mexico ; V. aiilica Sowb., V. cynibiola Ch., V. sophicz Gray, 

 V. pulchra ^o\Nh., V. Ihalcheri McCoy, V. papillaris Swn., V. 

 fulgetrtmi ^owh. , V. sclaleri Qox, V. punctata '$>^n., &c., while 

 V. prevostiana Crosse must not be omitted, this being the only 



J.C, v., April, 18S6. 



