TAYLOR : SOME VARIKtAL FORMS OF THE GENUS CYpR.EA. I23 



C. rashleighana Melv. var. eunota nov. 



Shell broadly pyriform with the lateral margins strongly developed, 

 dorsum three-banded, the central band being the most distinctly 

 defined, base white, very faintly spotted on the columella side, lateral 

 margins white, very broad and heavily spotted with pale brown, these 

 spots being carried well up the dorsum. 



Dimensions of type: long. i8 mm., lat. ii mm. ; dimensions of 

 var. : long. i8| mm., lat. 13 mm. 



Habitat ; Hawaiian Isles. 



C. rashleighana Melv. var, transpiciens nov. 



Shell ovate-pyriform, much larger than the type ; very pale straw 

 colour (in one instance almost white), indistinctly three-banded, that 

 in the middle, which is the most conspicuous, being interrupted or 

 broken up into detached rectangular blotches ; base white, lateral 

 margins white, slightly thickened and sparingly punctured with pale 

 brown spots. 



The size is very much larger than the type, that of my specimens 

 being : — long. 22^ mm., lat. i3|- mm. ; long. 27! mm., lat. 17 mm. ; 

 long. 27 mm., lat. i8| mm. 



Habitat : Honolulu, Hawaiian Isles, 



According to Dautzenberg, this is the only form occurring in New 

 Caledonia and Lifu. 



I am indebted to Mr. J. C. Melvill for suggesting the names for 

 the two varieties of C. rashleizhaiia. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



We regret greatly to have to record the death of Mr. E. A. Smith, I.S.O. , on the 

 22nd July last, in his 69th year. We hope to publish some account of his life in 

 our next number. 



We have also to deplore the loss of another member of long standing, Mr, 

 J. H. Ponsonby-Fane, better known by his original surname of Ponsonby, who 

 died on the nth September, at Brympton, Yeovil. 



Two very well known French conchologists have also died comparatively 

 recently : — Colonel Messager, of the Colonial Infantry, Commander of the Legion 

 of Honour, died on December 4th, 1915, at his home at Rochefort-sur-Mer. He 

 was best known for his researches in Tonkin. Dr. Pierre Marie Henri Fischer 

 died on July loth last, at 51, Boulevard St. Michel, Paris, at the age of fifty. 

 He was editor of the Journal de C one hy It logic, and a member of very many 

 learned societies. 



