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Har fordti. (Proc. Zool. Soc., 1869, p. 358, pl. 26, fig. 2), but two or three 
months after McCoy had given it the name of caza/icuzlata, (Ann. and Mag. 
Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. 4, p. 34, pl. 3, figs. 1, 2), also in 1869. The specimen 
in the Manchester Museum was previously in the Cholmondeley Collection. 
Mr. Melvill also exhibited a magnificent specimen of Paryphanta 
Hochstettert Pfr., from New Zealand, where it is always rare, and when 
found not often in passable condition. The epidermis is very smooth and 
shining, fawn colour concentrically variegated with dark-chestnut lines, 
while at the basal side of the periphery it becomes uniformly broad banded, 
giving a bipartite colouration to the base, and a most beautiful effect. 
P. Busbyt, the type of the genus, and most of the more showy species, are 
from New Zealand. A few occur in Australia. 
Mr. Melvill further exhibited a series of species of Szphonalia A. Ad., 
separated from /zsuws by the dentition and form of the shell. There are 
about fifty forms described, by far the greater portion coming from Japanese 
seas. Mr. A. Adams has described, mostly in the Ann. and Mag. Nat. 
THist., 1863, about fifteen species, none of them being figured, and they have 
not been identified with certainty. This leaves about thirty-five species 
more or less known, of which the most conspicuous are S. (K¢éd/lettia) 
Kellettit Forbes, from Japan and N.W. America, S. (Penim) dilatata 
Q. & G., S. (Austrofusus) alternata Phil. Of the typical forms S. ¢vochlus 
Reeve and S. casszdari@formis Reeve may be taken as typical. Mr. H. A. 
Pilsbry, in his elaborate work ‘‘ On the Marine Mollusks of Japan,” added 
two more species to that fauna, but his S. hyferodon is S. mikado Melvill, and 
his S. Stearnst is S. pseudo-buccinum Melvill, both described eight years ago 
(J. of Conch., vol. 5, p. 348-9, 1888). Mr. Pilsbry, in a very courte- 
ous letter written to Mr. Melvill expresses his regret at the oversight, but still 
he is pleased that the species have been now so well figured, as in his 
Japanese Mollusca, pl. 2, fig. 1, 2, 6,7, in which Mr. Melvill cordially con- 
curs. Specimens of about twenty forms were shown from the Darbishire 
and Melvill Cabinets, including from both: S. mzkado Melv., S. pseudo- 
buccinum Melv., S. Kellettze Forbes, nice vars. of S. casstdarieformis Reeve, 
and its var. ovnata, the beautiful S. stezunz Reeve and S. trochulus Reeve, 
S. grandis Gray, from New Zealand, and many other species. 
Mr. Melvill also exhibited three beautiful Helices of the section 
Papuina, viz.: Papuina woodlarkiana Smith, Woodlark Island; P. +voseo- 
labzata Smith, New Guinea; /. Stvabo Brazier, New Guinea. 
Mr. R. Cairns exhibited some shells he had recently received from 
South Africa, collected near the Kowie River, Cape Colony. They included 
eight specimens of a new species of Cyclostoma (C. foveolatum Melv. and 
Pons. ), recently described, of which only four specimens were previously 
known. Also four specimens of Celaxzs Layardi Ad. and Ang., and 
several other species not yet determined. 
Two specimens of S¢rzthzolaria mirabilis Smith, from Kerguelen Island, 
were exhibited from the Collection of the Manchester Museum, 
