SCALARIA FIMBRIOLATA : VERTIGO PUSILLA. IM 



Candidates Proposed for Membership. 



Mrs. Blundell ; Mrs. Smith ; Mr. G. E. Mason ; Mr. G. M. Morris ; Mr. 

 J. E. Neild. 



Papers Read. 



"Rerviera, a new genus of Pyramidellkke," by J.Cosmo Melvilland R. Standen. 



" A contribution towards a list of the Marine Mollusca of Tenby and neigh- 

 bourhood," by Bartlet Span. 



Exhibits. 



By Mr. J. C. Melvill : Pyramidella glans Rve., Odostomia lesvis Ang. , Tui- 

 bonilla templaris Melv., Pyrgulina casta Ads., Farthenia kreffti Ang., Syrnola 

 elegans Ads., and S. karachiensis Melv., to illustrate the paper on Herviera. 



By Mr. Bartlet Span : A fine series of British marine mollusca, illustrating the 

 more important species and varieties mentioned in his paper on " The marine 

 mollusca of Tenby." 



By Mr. E. C. Stump : Some very beautiful and unusual varieties of Cyprcea 

 decipiens Smith, from West Australia. 



Note on Scalaria fimbriolata Melv. — Two specimens of this exquisite Sea- 

 /aria were dredged by Mr. F. W. Townsend in the same region (Persian Gulf) as 

 the type, which is now in the British Museum. The additional material thus to hand 

 tends to confirm the distinctness of this mollusk from its nearest congener S. decus- 

 sata Kien.(=6". kieneri Weink. ), the lamellae being closer, finer, and more fimbriolate, 

 the upper portion of the whorls straighter, leaving a narrow, pseudo-canaliculate 

 suture. The second and larger example, 52 mm. long, was found off Sheik Shuaib 

 I., the third off Maskat. Its occurrence is, therefore, probably general at the 

 entrance to the gulf. S. decussata also occurred, found at fifteen fathoms, by Capt. 

 Tindall of the S.S. ' Patrick Stewart,' off the Angrias Banks, west of Bombay, he 

 having dredged there at Mr. Townsend's request. Probably the large example 

 will soon be in the British Museum ; the third specimen has been lately presented 

 to Mr. Melvill by Mr. Townsend. Another exceedingly beautiful, though small, 

 Scalaria has also been discovered by Mr. Townsend, dredged in fifteen fathoms, off 

 Malcolm Inlet, Persian Gulf, and has been recently described as S. malcolmensis 

 Melv. It will be placed in sequence next to S. diana, which is, however, a more 

 extraordinary shell still, both, however, agreeing in the uniform, triangular lamella?, 

 more closely set in the new species and not projecting at so wide an angle. Of this 

 two examples occurred. — J. Cosmo Melvill {Read before the Society, March 9th, 

 1898. 



Vertigo pusilla Miiller in Lancashire and Westmorland. — An interesting 

 series of V. pusilla, which I exhibit on behalf of Mr. A. W. Rymer Roberts, is 

 particularly noteworthy by reason of its adding another to our meagre list of Lanca- 

 shire localities, together with no fewer than four separate records for Westmorland, 

 from which county it has not been previously reported by those conchologists who 

 have investigated the molluscan fauna of the Lake district. All the localities are 

 near Lake Windermere, the Lancashire one being Ferry, and the others Calgarth, 

 Ellery Bank, Rayrigg, and St. Catharine's. The shells were collected in fair 

 numbers during 1897-98, and are of precisely the same type as those from Silver- 

 dale and Grange-over-Sands (see p. 113 of this volume). — R. Standen {Read before 

 the Society, February 8, 1899). 



