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3. Note on Callichthys and Anableps. 
By J. P. Gr. Smith, Esq. 
The flesh of Callichthys, when cooked, is of a fine deep yellow 
colour, and in substance is somewhat cheesy or buttery on the tongue; 
it is very rich in flavour: no cleaning of the intestines appears to be 
necessary before preparation for the table. 
In the creeks by which the island of Mexianna is intersected, these 
fish literally swarm and keep the waters alive and in a state of con¬ 
stant disturbance. I have witnessed them crossing a log of wood, 
which was hung in the water and intercepted the passage, in such 
numbers that they quite concealed it from view; and the people, when 
they wanted a dish, were in the habit of going down to a favourable 
spot and picking them out with their hands, without going into the 
water. 
Anableps swims in small shoals with the eyes above the surface of 
the water, generally close to the shore, and so near together that I 
have shot twenty to thirty at a time by firing a gun among them; 
then* flesh is very sweet, and not unlike a smelt in taste. 
4. On the species of Mollusca collected during the 
Surveying Voyages of the Herald and Pandora, by 
Capt. Kellett, R.N., C.B., and Lieut. Wood, B.N. By 
Professor Edward Forbes, F.R.S. 
1. On the Land-Shells collected during the Expedition. 
(Mollusca, PI. IX.) 
Officers employed on a hydrographical survey have seldom time or 
opportunity for making an extensive collection of land-shells. In the 
assemblage of mollusks collected by Capt. Kellett and Lieut. Wood, 
there are twenty-eight species, of which eight are undescribed forms. 
These have been collected at various points between the coast of the 
Equador to the south and Vancouver Island to the north, the Gele- 
pagos Islands, Pitcairn’s Island, and the Sandwich Isles. Unfortu¬ 
nately, in consequence of the mixing of unlabeled specimens, the pre¬ 
cise locality of several of the species cannot now be determined. 
Of the genus Helix there are nine species. Of these, H. Toivns- 
endiana, Nuttalliana and Columbiana are certainly from the neigh¬ 
bourhood of the Columbia river. Helix Kellettii and Pandora, both 
new, are probably from the same country, though the box in which 
they were contained was marked “ Santa Barbara.” Helix areolata 
bears no indication of its locality. Helix labyrinthus, variety sipun- 
culata , is a very curious modification of H. labyrinthus, and, like its 
known near relations, comes from Panama. Helix ornatella (known 
also as H. Adamsi) was collected in Pitcairn’s Island, where it had 
originally been observed. A single specimen of the common Euro¬ 
pean Helix aspersa is marked “ Santa Barbara,” and probably owed 
its presence, wherever it was found, to transport by Europeans. 
Of the genus Bulimus fourteen species were collected. Among the 
most interesting of these are seven species, two of them new, from 
