1891.] DR. C. J. FORSYTH MAJOR ON FOSSIL GIRAFFIDiE. 315 



Also collected for Dr. Hungerford by Mr. Boxall. Referable to 

 the section Planispira. Type in the Natural History Museum. 



Ennea (Huttonella) seatoni, sp. nov. (Plate XXIX. figs. 

 15-19.) 



Shell cylindric, whitish, narrowly rim ate ; whorls 11, convex, 

 sutures deep, very slightly decreasing in size upwards, the upper two 

 smooth, shining, the others finely but prominently ribbed, the last 

 expanded and free towards the aperture ; aperture oval, nearly ver- 

 tical ; peristome thickened inwards, the columellar margin with a deep 

 circular incision extending to the suture of the penultimate whorl, 

 above this cavity the margin of the peristome runs back into the 

 interior of the aperture, forming a strongly developed lamella, opposite 

 which there are two obscure teeth on the inner part of the peristome 

 well within the aperture. Length f inch. 



Hab. Tenasserim, limestone rocks east of the Mooley-it mountain 

 near the Siam frontier. 



Only a single example was found when visiting this mountain 

 with Col. Seaton, the Conservator of Forests for the Tenasserim 

 provinces. Its nearest ally is Ennea cylindroidea, Stoliczka, which 

 is, however, a much smaller shell. 



DESCEIPTION OF PLATE XXIX. 



Figs. 1, 2, 3. Nanina suicastor, p. 313. 



4, 5, 6. Trocho7norpha subnigritella, p. 314. 



7, 8, 9. Helix colktti, p. 314. 



10, 11, 12. Helix shanica,^. 314:. 



13, 14. Macrochlamys peringundensis, p. 313. 



15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Ennea {Huttonella) seatoni, p. 315. 



3. On the Fossil Eemains of Species of the Family Giraffidee. 

 By Dr. C. J. Forsyth Major'. 



By far the most numerous remains met with in the fossiliferous 

 deposit of Samos explored by me in 1888 and 1889 appertain to 

 a new member of the family GiraffiJse. The rich materials at my 

 command furnish satisfactory knowledge of this nevv form, and at 

 the same time suggest novel considerations concerning the various 

 forms already described. 



Falconer and Cautley, in describing a fossil Griraffe discovered in 

 the Siwaliks, wrote as follows : — "The Giraffe has hitherto been con- 

 fined to a single species, and has occupied an isolated position in the 

 order to which it belongs. It may be expected that, when the ossi- 

 ferous beds of Asia and Africa are better known, other intermediate 

 forms will be found, filhng up the wide interval which now separates 

 the Giraffe from the antlered ruminants, its nearest allies in the order 

 according to Cuvier and Owen " "^ This was written 47 years ago. 



^ Communicated by the President. 



^ H. Falconer and Capt. P. T. Cautley," On some Fossil Eemains of Anoplo- 

 theritim and Giraffe, from the Sewalik Hills," Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. no. 98, 

 1844. 



