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Show 1871.] THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. 101 Fam. MYTILID_E. 105. CRENELLA (MODIOLARIA) CUMINGIANA. Modiola cumingiana, Dunker; Reeve, Conch. Icon. Modiola, pl. 9. f. 63 a, b. Lake Macquarie, New South Wales (Brazier); also Moreton Bay and St. Vincent's Gulf. 106. PERNA CONFUSA, Angas, P. Z. S. 1871, PL I. f. 33. Of a dark olive-brown colour, paler beneath ; somewhat like Modiola fortunei, Dunker (from China), but more arcuate in form, of a different colour, and four times as large. Lane-Cove River, Port Jackson. Fam. ARCID_E. 107. LIMOPSIS BRAZIERI, Angas, P. Z. S. 1871, PL I. f. 34. A small somewhat triangularly ovate species, finely concentrically ridged, and longitudinally crenate. Dredged near the " Sow and Pigs," Port Jackson (Brazier). Fam. RADULID_E. 108. RADULA (MANTELLUM) ORIENTALIS. Lima orientalis, Ad. & Reeve, Voy. Samarang, pl. 11. f. 33 a, b. A thin, delicate, semipellucid species, that must not be confounded with R. angulata, Sow. Dredged near Watson's Bay (Brazier). Class BRACHIOPODA. Fam. TEREBRATULIDiE. 109. TEREBRATELLA SANGUINEA, Lam. Anim. sans Vert. vii. p. 331. A small yellowish species, handsomely ornamented with red markings. Dredged near the rocks at Camp Cove, Port Jackson, in 7 fathoms (Brazier). February 7, 1871. G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. The following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of January 1871 was read:- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of January 1871 was 38, of which 17 were |