166 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MAXACOLOGICAL S0CI>:TY. 



A CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS A CHECK-LIST OF THE NON-MAEINE 

 MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



By J. Cosmo Melyill, M.A., F.L.S., etc., and J. H. Ponsonby, 

 F.Z.S., etc. 



Bead 10th June, 1898. 



Since the publication, fifty years ago, of Dr. Krauss' " Sudafri- 

 kanischen Mollusken," so many additions have been made to this 

 fauna that the following list may, it is hoped, be found useful alike 

 to students here and to collectors on the spot. As the northern limit 

 of South Africa we have taken the line of the Tropic of Capricorn, 

 or just above the 24th parallel, thus excluding all tropical species. 



[A few days after the reading of this paper Dr. Sturany, of Vienna, 

 announced ^ the issue in the near future of a complete and com- 

 prehensive work on this subject, dealing with the whole country 

 south of the Zambesi. Meantime he has already described a number 

 of species ; such of them as come within our geographical limits have 

 been added, within brackets, after the genus to which they belong.] 



We have not at present seen any of those shells to the names of 

 which an asterisk (*) is prefixed. 



GASTHOPODA. 



TESTACELLID^. 



A PEE A. 



£urnupi, Smith: Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. x (1892), p. 465. 



Hab. — IS'atal. 



i, Bin.: Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard, vol. v (1879), 

 p. 331 ; Jahrb. Deutsch. malak. Ges., vol. xU (1885), pi. ii, 

 tigs, 5-7. Hab. — Natal. 



Testacella. 



aurigaster, Layard [? ubi]. Hab. — Gardens in Capetown. 



Ennea. 



Adamsiana, Pfr. : Mon. Helic. Viv., vol. v, p. 339; Novit. Conch., 



vol. i, pi. xxxii, figs. 9-11. Hab. — Natal. 



Alhersi, Pfr.: Proc. Zool. Soc, 1854, p. 295; Novit. Conch., 



vol. i, pi. X, figs. 15-17. Hab. — Natal. 



aperostoma, Melv. & Pons. : Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. ix (1892), p. 93, 



pi. vi, fig. 10, Hab.— Natal. 



1 Anzeiger k. Akad. Wisseusch. Wieu, 1898, No. xvi. 



