118 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A gigantic Herring or Tarpon {Megalops thrissoides) 

 from Florida; when caught, it weighed 105 pounds, and 

 measured 5 ft. 11 in.; presented by J. G. K. Young, Esq. 



Forty-one Fish from Manaos, Mouth of the Kio Negro, 

 including examples of six species new to the collection ; pur- 

 chased. 



Mollusca. — To this class, including Tunicata, five thousand 

 six hundred and seventy-one additions were made. Besides 

 the Morelet collection already referred to, the following are 

 specially worthy of note : — 



Six specimens of Isocardia cor from the Isle of Man, 

 Bristol Channel, and West of Ireland ; presented by F. W. 

 Wotton, Esq. 



A hundred and fifteen Land and Freshwater Shells from 

 North Egypt ; presented by Dr. John Anderson, F.R.S. 



Two hundred and two Marine Shells from the Persian Gulf ; 

 presented by W. D. Gumming, Esq. 



Thirty-eight Marine Shells from Bombay, including the 

 types of twentj^-four new species ; presented by Messrs. A. 

 Abercrombie and J. C. Melvill. 



Two hundred and thirty-five Land, Freshwater, and Marine 

 Shells from various parts of India, including Scaphula celox, 

 S. deltce and S. pinna ; bequeathed by the late H. F. Blan- 

 ford, Esq. 



Five Unionidce from Cambodia, five specimens of a new 

 species of Sphenia (S. sowerhyi), and the types of eleven 

 species of Pleurotomidce, from Ariancoupan near Pondicherry ; 

 presented by G. B. Sowerby, Esq. 



A hundred and forty-six Land and Freshwater Shells from 

 Tonkin and Cambodia, including specimens of Helix onestera, 

 H. fouresi, Geotrochatella gredleriana and others ; received 

 in exchange. 



Sixty-nine Land Shells from Palawan and Balabac, including 

 new species of Macrochlamys, Lamproeystis, Trochonanina, 

 Leptopoma and Lagochilus ; purchased. 



A hundred and seventy Land Shells from North Borneo, 

 comprising new species of Macrochlamys, Opisthostoma, 

 Alycceus and other genera ; partly purchased, and partly pre- 

 sented by A. Everett, Esq. 



A hundred and twenty-one Land Shells from the Tawi Tawi 

 Islands, Sulu Archipelago, including new species of Trocho- 

 nanina, Chloritis and Cyclotus ; purchased. 



Fifty-seven specimens of Chitonidce from Australia ; pre- 

 sented by Dr. J. 0. Cox. 



Three hundred Marine Shells from South Australia, in- 

 cluding many species new to the collection ; received in 

 exchange. 



Five hundred and four Marine and Freshwater Shells from 



Tasmania, 



