42 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A specimen of a very rare Deep-sea sole (^Arnoglossus lophotes), obtained in the Irish 

 Channel; presented by Professor Moseley, f.r.s. 



Two Trout from Filha Boa stream, Galicia ; presented by G. D. Tait, Esq. 



A specimen of a new species of Shark ( Carcharias ■murrayi'), obtained by exchange from 

 the Kurrachee Museum. 



Twenty-three specimens of very large size, chiefly SerranidtB and Scarina, from Mauri- 

 tius ; purchased. 



Thirty-one specimens collected by Dr. Coppinger during the voyage home of H. M.S 

 "Alert"; presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



Mollusca. — The total number of specimens added to the collection during the year 

 amounts to 1,842. This number, although small in comparison with those of some 

 previous years, includes several series of considei'able interest and importance. 



Seventy-nine shells from Newfoundland, Spain and North Africa ; purchased. 



A selected series of 77 Land and Fresh-water Shells (rom Madagascar, including several 

 new forms ; purchased. 



A second collection of 37 Terrestrial and Fluviatile Shells from the central and north- 

 west portions of Madagascar, also containing many new and very interesting species ; 

 presented by W. Johnson, Esq. 



A most valuable series of 544 shells from the shores of Bombay, Kurrachee, 

 Beloochistan and Arakan ; collected and presented by W. T. Blanford, Esq., r.R.S. 



A selected series or 69 marine species from the Mauritius and Chesterfield Islands, 

 comprising several which were new to the Museum collection, among them a beautiful 

 example of the rare Voluta thatcheri from the latter locality; purchased. 



Thirty-seven shells from Mayotte, Nossi-Be, and New Caledonia ; purchased. 



Twenty-nine Terrestrial Shells from Satanga ; purchased. 



Twenty -four Land and Fresh-water Shells from China ; purchased. 



A very fine specimen oi Fusus pagoda, one of the most remarkable of the many curious 

 forms of Mollusca from Japan ; presented by George Lewis, Esq. 



Forty-three Land and Marine Shells from New Caledonia, Viti, etc. ; purchased. 



Four hundred and eighty specimens of marine forms from the coast of Queensland, 

 Torres Straits and the Amirante Islands, forming part of the collections made by 

 Dr. Coppinger of H. M.S. " Alert" ; presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



Crustacea. — The total number of additions was 1,332. The following appear to deserve 

 special notice : — 



The collection of 55, chiefly pelagic. Crustaceans made by Surgeon H. B. Gruppy, m.b., 

 of H.M.S. " Lark " ; presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



Twelve specimens from Japan of marine species new to the collection ; purchased. 



A series of specimens of a Macrurous Fresh-water Crustacean from Japan {^Atyephyra 

 compressa), noticed in the " Annals and Magazine of Natural History," p. 193 ; presented 

 by Dr. Paul Mayer. 



Nine specimens of rare marine species from considerable depths, collected at Mauritius, 

 and reported on in the " Proceedings of the Zoological Society," 1882, p. 538 ; purchased. 



A selected series of 83 specimens of fresh-water species, collected in Eastern Betsileo 

 by the Rev. W. Deans Cowan ; purchased. 



Tlie very large collection made by Dr. Coppinger, and consisting of 810 speci- 

 mens ; presented by the Lords of the Admiralty. 



A selected series of 104 specimens from Kurrachee ; obtained by exchange from the 

 Kurrachee Museum. 



A collection of 134 specimens from Ceylon, made and presented by Dr. W. Oundaatje. 



AracliJiida and Myriopoda. — The number of specimens acquired during the year was 429, 

 of which 389 were Arachnidn, and 40 Myriopoda. The principal additions are the 

 following : — 



Four Myriopoda from North Italy, belonging to the families Polydesmidce and Glo- 

 merida ; presented by the Rev. A. E. Eaton. 



A new species of Myriopod {Zephronia tumida) from North Assam ; presented by 

 F. 0. P. Cambridge, Esq. 



Fourteen Arachnida and six Myriopoda from Oosima, Lu-chu Islands ; presented by 

 Lieut. A. Carpenter. 



One specimen of a rare and remarkable Thelyphonus ( T. proboscideus) from Ceylon ; 

 presented by P. N. Braine, Esq. 



Two specimens of an apjiarently new species of Thelyphonus from Siam; purchiised. 



Fifteen Arachnida and two Myriopoda (including the type of Zephronia larbata) from 

 Sumatra ; purchased. 



Eight Myriopoda and 40 Arachnida from the Persian Gulf and Kurrachee ; obtained 

 in exchange from the Kurrachee Museum. 



A series from the collection made by the Rev. W. Deans Cowan in Betsileo, and 

 consisting of 214 Arachnida, some of which have already been described and figured in 

 the " Annals and Magazine of Natural History," and the " Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society " for the year ; also nine Myriopoda chiefly referable to three new species of 

 Spitostreptus ; purchased. 



Fifty-four named species of Spiders, all types of forms described by Prof. L. Koch, 

 from Australia; purchased. 



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