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PROCEEDINGS OF THE VICTORIA INSTITUTE. 
Thursday, 14tii June, 1894. 
Ilis Honour Sir John Goldney , President , in the Chair . 
The following Donations were announced : — 
Twelve Volumes of Guide Books to the collections of the 
British Museum (Natural History). The Trustees . 
Massee on Trichosphreria Sacchari — The Colonial Secretary. 
Boletin del Instituto geografico Argentino, tom XIV., cuad. 
9 — 12. The Institute. 
Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society — Proceedings, 8 parts 
The Society. 
Botanic Gardens — Reports 1887 — 93; and Bulletin, 12 
parts. J. H. Hart. F.L.S. 
The following paper was read : 
ON A LANDSHELL OF THE GENUS HELICIN A FROM 
GRENADA AND ON THE CLASSIFICATION 
OF THE I1ELICINIDH3. 
By. R. .J. Lechmere Guppy. 
By the kind intervention of Mr. F. W. Urich I have re- 
ce'neJ fiom G. W. Smith of Grenada, specimens of a Ilelicina 
found m that Island and named II. Keatei by that great authority 
on landshells the late Louis Pfeiffer of Cassel. Though acquainted 
v, ith the shell, I had not previously possessed a specimen nor is 
the.e one in the collection of the discoverer the late Governor 
ICeato, aftoi whom it is named. This shell belongs to a small 
group which may bo typified by II. caracolla of Brazil but its 
nearest relation is II. occidental™ of St. Vincent. 
The HeliciniD/'e to which our shell belongs is a family of 
operculate landshells consisting of the genus Helicina (taken in a 
} wide sense) and of the two allied genera Preserpina and 
Viewed in this way the family is an exceedingly natural 
