320 JOURNAL OK CONCHOI.OGY, VOL. I4, NO. lO, APRIL, 19x5. 



440th Meeting, held at the Museum, Manchester, March loth, 1915. 



Mr. E. Collier in the chair. 



Additions to the Library announced and thanks voted : — 

 "On some Generic Names first mentioned in the " Concholofjical Illustrations," 

 by William Healey Dall. "A List of the Land and Fresiiwater Mollusca of the 

 Dingle Promontory," by A. W. Stelfox (from tlie respective authors) ; and the 

 usual periodicals received in exchange. 



New Members Elected. 



Sidney Ash. 



Percy Thomas Deakin. 



Papers Read. 



"Note on Tellina splendida of Anton," by Edgar A. Smith, LS.O. 



"The Nomenclature of British Marine Mollusca," by Tom Iredale. 



"Notes on the recent species of the Genus i¥«;-/a Lam. ," by J. C. Melvill, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.L.S. 



" Note on Turbonilla phrikalea Watson from Sao Thome," by J. R. le B. 

 TomHn, M.A., F.E.S. 



Exhibits. 



By Mrs. Gill : Strigilla splendida (Anton) from West Africa, and Strigilla 

 tomlini E. A. Smith from Philippines, Queensland, etc. 



By Dr. A. E. Boycott : Mount of about 200 Clausilia bidentata, all collected 

 from about one square yard of wall at Portmadoc, showing the normal range of 

 variation and the frequency of the different sizes. The shells ranged from 9I mm. 

 to 134 mm., with a mean of 11 "35 mm. 



By Mr. T. H. Piatt : A series of co-types of a new species of Ftisconaia found 

 by the Rev. H. E. Wheeler, in Cache River, Nemo, Craighead County, Arkansas, 

 U.S.A. This shell, which Mr. Wheeler has named Fusconaia selecta, is closely 

 related to F. undata Barnes, F. ruhis^inosa Lea, F. cerina and F. hebetata Conrad, 

 but differs from these in various shell measurements, by which it can readily be 

 distinguished. An excellent description of this splendid shell is to be found in 

 " The Nautilus," for November, 1914. F. ?<;/(/(;/« Barnes and F. rubiginosa L.Gii 

 were also exhibited. 



The Special Exhibit of the Meeting was the Genus Harha, a' d specimens were 

 shown by Mrs. Gill, Mr. C. H. Moore, and Mr. j. C. Melvill, who exhiliited the 

 specimen of H. cosiata L. , figured by Reeve in Conch. Icon., llarPa, pi. 2, f. 5. 

 It possesses thirty-eight to forty ribs without flaw or oreak of any kind, and is 

 probably as fine an example as there is in existence. 



The Manchester Museum also exhibited a very fine series of specimens, chiefly 

 from the " Darbishire collection," also fossil examples of Harpidce, viz. : Flarpa 

 nuitira Lam. and Cryptochorda biiccinoides Elerm., both from the Middle Eocene of 

 the Paris Basin. 



It was decided to have the following Special Exhibits at the next three meetings: 

 April 14th - Cydonassa { = Cyclops). 



May 1 2th - Papuiiia. 



June 9th - Marginella. 



