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Show 380 THE SECRETARY ON ADDITIONS TO THE MENAGERIE. [June 9, striata, albida ; spira elongato-conica, apice acutiusculo, sutura anguste marginata; anfr. 8, convexiusculis, ultimo % longitudinis, antice ascendente, basi compresso, pone aperturam trisulcato; apertura subverticali, reniformi, ringente; columella profunde tridentata; perist. continuo, expanso, ad parietem appresso, lamina valida intrante juxta angulum parietis ; margine columellari late, profunde et depresse sinuato ; margine dextro superne sinuato, lamellis pluribus, quorum 4 longioribus, intrantibus munito. Long. 14, diam. 6 mill. Hab. Sierra Leone, West Africa (Coll. E. Higgins). This species is somewhat near E. cyathostoma, Pfr., from Old Calabar, and is peculiar from the deep and depressed sinus in the left margin of the aperture. DESCEIPTION OP PLATE XXVII. Fig. 1,1a. Aperostoma bartletti, p. 375. 2, 2a. Cyane blandiana, p. 376. .'? Monocondylcea (Plagiodon) semisulcata, p. 370. 4, 4a. Helix (Plcctotropis) christince, p. 377. 5. (Plectotropis) marietta, p. 377. 6. (Acusta) brevispira, p. 377. 7. (Acusta) nora, p. 377. 8, 8a. (Camena) constantice, p. 378. 9. (Satsuma) albida, p. 378. 10. Clausilia (Pha>dusa) bensoni, p. 378. 11, 11a. Cyclotus taivanus, p. 378. 12. Melaniella brevicula, p. 379. 13. Dreissena swinhoei, p. 379. 14, 14rt. Helix (Corilla) damarensis, p. 379. 15. Ennea (Gonospira) ringens, p. 379. June 9, 1870. George Busk, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair. The Secretary read the following report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of M a y :- The total number of registered additions to the Society's Menagerie during the month of M a y 1870 was 200, of which 45 were by birth, 54 by presentation, 83 by purchase, and 18 were animals received simply on deposit. The total number of departures during the same period, by death and removals, was 75, showing a net addition of 125 individuals to the collection during the month. The most noticeable arrivals during the month were: - 1. A male Deer, received May 5 th along with a collection of other animals transmitted to the Society from Singapore by H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. This Deer, of which the exact locality has |