PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 247 



" Smithsonian Report," part i, 1885. — By the Trustees. 

 " Proceedings of the I.innean Society of New South Wales," 

 vol. ii., part i. — By the Society. 



Siiccinea putris, from Niagara Fall, N. Y. ; Helix pulchella, van 

 costata, Patula cooperi, P. striatella, Zonitesfulvus, Pupa sp. ? 

 from West Cliff, Colorado.— By Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell. 

 Specimens of Leda pygmcsa (Miinst.), Axinus flexuosus 

 (Mont.), A. croulinensis (Jeff.), A. ferruginosus (Forb.), 

 Rissoa abyssicola (Forb.), R, zetlandica (Mont.), R. vitrea 

 (Mont.), Odostomia conoidea (Broc. ), O. acicida (Phil.), 

 var. ventricosa (Forb.), Pleurotoma brachystoma (Phil.), 

 Cylichna nitidida (Lor.). — By Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc. 



The thanks of the Society were accorded the donors for 

 their valuable gifts. 



PAPER READ. 



" On a New Species of sinistral Limnsea from Central Australia, 

 with some remarks on so-called species of Physa, also from 

 Australia."— Rev. A. H. Cooke, M.A., F.Z.S. 



SPECIMENS EXHIBITED. 



Mr. W. Nelson showed examples of Plafwrbis albus, from 

 near Harrogate, collected by Mr. F. R. Fitzgerald. These 

 specimens measure nine millimetres, and are quite as large as 

 those mentioned by Dr. Jeffreys, in his work on British Con- 

 chology. Also Planorbis albus var. Draparnaldi, from Sandal, 

 nine millimetres, and P. albus from Kibworth, Leicestershire 

 (and not co. Durham, as quoted by Dr. Jeffreys), collected by Dr. 

 Norman. 



Mr. J. W. Taylor showed a number of shells collected at 

 Folkestone, and sent by Mr. Whitwell ; also an example of a 

 sinistral Liimicea from Brisbane, sent by the Rev. A. H. Cooke, 

 with a description and photograph of the dentition. Mr. Taylor 

 further exhibited a number of specimens of Helix arbustorum, 

 sent by Mr. Charles Oldham, of Sale, Cheshire. These included 

 examples of the type, and the varieties alpestris ^nd. flavescens — 



