(j4 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



type of a new species (Liocassis moeachii) ; obtained partly by purchase, partly by 

 exchange. 



Eleven specimens from Stewart Island, New Zealand ; presented by C. Traill, 



Esq. 



Twenty-four specimens from the Gaboon ; purchased. 



Eighteen specimens from Lake Tanganyika ; purchased. 



A specimen of a Sole new to the collection {^yiKt^^tura j^ectoralis) from the Cape 

 of Good Hope ; presented by T. Harcourt Powell, Esq. 



Two hundred and twenty-nine specimens (marine and freshwater) from North 

 America ; presented by the United States Fish Commission. 



Seventy-three South American Siluroids, including types of many new species 

 recently described by American authors ; received in exchange from the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. 



A very large Saw-fish (Pristis 'perroteti) from Demerara; received in exchange 

 from the British Guiana Museum. 



Twenty- two specimens from Demerara ; presented by J. Quelch, Esq. 



Five specimens from the Camapuan River, Brazil, including types of a new species 

 (Pimelodus nigriharhis) ; purchased. 



MoUusca. — In this class, including Tunicata, the additions were six thousand four 

 hundred and twenty. In addition to the " Challenger " series and Turton collection, 

 already mentioned, the following were the most important : — 



Fourteen Cephalopods, amongst which may be specially mentioned examples of 

 Cheiroteuthis veranyi, EnoploteutMs owenii, Tremoctopus violaceus, two Hetero- 

 pods, and three Tunicates from Nice ; purchased. 



One hundred and twenty-one specimens of Helicidcc, Limnctiidce, &c., from Genoa, 

 Monaco, and other parts of Liguria ; collected and presented by Oldlield Thomas, 

 Esq. 



, One hundred and thirty-three small marine Shells from Vancouver ; presented by 

 the Rev. G. W. Taylor. 



Thirty land Shells from St. Lucia and Dominica, including types of a new Helix, a 

 Bulimus, and two species of Helicina ; presented by the Committee for Exploration 

 of the Lesser Antilles. 



Thirty-one land and fieshwater Shells from Barbados ; presented by Colonel 

 W. H. Feilden. 



Two hundred and two named specimens of land Shells from Hayti ; purchased. 



Sixty-eight land and marine MoUusca from Fernando Noronha, including the types 

 of Bulimulus ridleyl and Helix quinquelirata ; presented by the Royal Society. 



Seventy-two Shells from Lake Tanganyika, including fine .specimens of Pleidon 

 spekei, Neothauma tanganyicense and Limnotrochus kirkii ; collected by Mr. E. C. 

 Hore. 



Forty-five marine Shells from Ascension Island; presented by Dr. Conry, r.n. 



One hundred and twenty specimens of marine MoUusca from Port Elizabeth ; 

 presented by J. H. Ponsonby, Esq. 



Forty-six land Shells from near Issyk Kul, Turkestan ; presented by Herr Haber- 

 hauer. 



Fifty-three named specimens of marine and land Shells from the Philippines and 

 Hong Kong, including types of CalUostoina Jiungerfovdi, Pleurotoma hongkongensis, 

 and eight other species ; purchased. 



Fourteen terrestrial MoUusca from N.Borneo, comprising the types oiNanina sub- 

 consul and Leptoporaa whiteheadi; presented by John Whitehead, Esq. 



Twenty-nine land and freshwater Shells from Sarawak ; presented by C. Hose, Esq. 



Fifty-nine marine Shells from the Madras coast ; presented by E. Thurston, Esq. 



Fifty-one marine MoUusca from Mauritius ; purchased. 



Eighty-nine land and freshwater Shells from the Louisiade Archipelago, including 

 four new species of Pupinella, five new Helicidce, and one new Helicina ; collected 

 and presented by Basil Thomson, Esq. 



Sixty-two specimens of Australian Unionidoi ; presented by Dr. J. C. Cox. 



Ninety-three specimens of Achatinella from the Sandwich Islands; presented by 

 D. D. Baldwin, Esq. 



Polyzoa. — One hundred and ninety-one specimens were added to the collection, of 

 which the most notewoi'thy accessions have been referred to. 



Crustacea. — Two thousand eight hundred and thirty-five specimens have been 

 added to this class ; of these, besides the "Challenger" and other collections, pre- 

 viously mentioned, the following are most worthy of notice : — 



Fifty-one Decapoda from Mauritius ; purchased. 



Fifty-four oceanic Crustaceans, including a specimen of an interesting Cirripede 



{Gineras vittata) and many little-known larval foi-ms ; presented by Captain D. B. 

 Carvosso. 



Thirty-two Crustaceans, including many rare and undetermined species oiPalinurus, 

 &c., from Stewart Ireland ; presented by C. Traill, Esq. 



