296 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



FniDAY, lOxH Febeuaet, 1899. 



W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 



The following were elected to membership of the Society : Prancis 

 J. Ede and V. V. Ramanan. 



Mr. E. E,. Sykes exhibited a series of Zonitoid and Helicoid land- 

 shells fi'om Ceylon. 



The Linnean Society exhibited the Linnean types of MoUusca. 



OEDINARY MEETING. 



Eeiday, 10th Makch, 1899. 



W. T. Blanford, LL.D., F.R.S. , etc., President, in the Chair. 



The following were elected to membership of the Society : — Evenor 

 Dnpont and Kenneth Hurlstone Jones. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On an apparently nndescribcd Arioplmnta from Mysore, with 

 notes on Marimlla Bmsumieri.''^ By W. T. Blanford, LL. D., E.R.S., etc. 



2. "Description of new Species of Heiniplecta from Perak." By 

 E. A. Smith, E.Z.S., etc. 



3. " On new Species of Chiton and Bino'plax from South Africa." 

 By E. R. Sykes, B.A., F.L.S., etc. 



4. "Descriptions of five new Species of New Zealand Land 

 MoUusca." By H. Suter. 



Mr. J. H. Vanstone exhibited embryonic shells of Planorbis corneiis, 

 drawing attention to their sinistral torsion and sculptured character ; 

 also dissection of the nervous system of Philine and Aplysia, illus- 

 trating the loss of the streptoneurous condition by the Opisthobranchia. 



Mr. S. I. Da Costa exhibited a new species of Papuina from New 

 Guinea, and fou.r species, new to science, of Bhodea from South 

 America. 



Mr. W. M. "Webb exhibited two live specimens of Ampullaria and 

 shells of different species of that genus collected by Major Stanley 

 Patterson in Yenezuela. The living examples were stated to have 

 been obtained during the dry season from the upper parts of growing 

 trees. 



Mr. E. R. Sykes exhibited four species of Clausilia from Tonquin 

 and an Ancylus from the Sandwich Isles. 



Messrs. E. A. Smith and E. E. Sykes placed specimens upon the 

 table in illustration of their papers. 



