96 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, VOI,. I4, NO. 3, JULY, 1913. 



It was announced that, at Mr. Tomlin's suggestion, it had been decided to 

 procure an Album for the preservation of Autograph Letters of eminent concholo- 

 gists, and members who may have such letters that they can spare are urged to 

 place them in the keeping of the Hon. Librarian. 



New Members Elected. 



William F. Clapp, 25, Ware Street, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. 

 Eugene W. Presbrey, 17, Trinity Place, New Rochelle, N.Y., U.S.A. 

 W. J. Davey, 19, Allfartliing Lane, Wandsworth Common, S.W. 

 Norman Egbert Pellon, 60, Sampson Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham. 



Paper Read. 



" Monstrosities of Tapes piillaslra and Mactra stultonim from Studland Bay, 

 Dorset," by J. E. Cooper. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. G. C. Spence : A series of varied forms of the genus Choanopoma, from 

 Jamaica and Cuba ; and shells and eggs of Urocoptis lavalleana (D'Orb.), from 

 Western Cuba. 



By Mr. C. IL Moore : Hyalinia cellaria from Stalybridge. 



By Mr. R. Welch : Curious forms of Li>iinaa pereger from Whitesides Pit, 

 Bispham (the late R. Drummond's collection). 



By Mr. J. Wilfrid Jackson : Paludestrina jeiikiusi from drains near railway 

 station, Portstewart, Co. Derry ; Helix nemoralis and dead sinistral example (first 

 record for Co. Derry), from the sand-dunes, Portstewart ; also large quantity of 

 material from " shell-pockets" at same place, the species including Ve7-ligo pusilla, 

 V. angtistior, V. pygincea, V. snbslriata, Piinctum pygiiueitm, AcantJmiidaaciiIeata, 

 Carychium miniimmi, Encouuhis fulviis, Vitrea crystallina, Jaininia tntiscorum, 

 J. cylindracea, Clatisilia bidentala, CochJicopa lubrica, etc. , etc. 



By the Rev. Lewis J. Shackleford : Marginella diadoclnts Ad. and Reeve, 

 dredged off Saldanha Bay, S. Africa ; and M. iniisica Hinds, dredged off Cape 

 St. Blaize, S. Africa ; M. gntveli Bavay from Bay of Praya Anulia, W. Africa ; and 

 M. goodalli Sow. from Senegal. 



Note on the Caryatis belcheri of Romer. — Specimens of a Pitaria from 

 S. Thome Lsland, akin to P. tiimens (Gmel.), have recently been submitted by us 

 to M. Dautzenberg and to Mr. Jukes-Browne. The former reported that it was 

 quite unknown to him ; Mr. Jukes-Browne wrote also that he was unacquainted 

 with the species, but pointed out that it was evidently the shell figured and descri!)ed 

 by Romer^ as Caryatis belcheri Sow. An inspection of Sowerl)y's type in the 

 British Museum shows that it is a totally different shell from Romer's, and tolerably 

 well figured in the Thesaurus.- Wc therefore propose the name Pitaria rd//ieri 

 for Romer's species, which he records from " insula 'do Principe' dicta, ad siiium 

 Guineensem." The true belcheri Sow. has recently been dredged in several places 

 off the Senegal coast by M. Gruvel.— J. R. LE B. ToMLiN and L. J. Shackle- 

 ford. — {Read before the Society, June lllh, 1913). 



I Mon. Gatt. Venus, p. T23, pi. 32, fi.a;s. 5— 5c. 

 Thes, Conch., II., p. 635, pi. 136, fig. 188. 



