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Show 332 LIEUT.-COL. H. H. GODWIN-AUSTEN ON [June 18, smaller specimens ; the transverse dark bands on the body and blotches along the median fins are faintly marked. The paddles of the ventral fins are tipped with blackish brown, and were edged with violet in the fresh specimen ; the general colour of which was a faint pink, with yellowish tinge along the basal half of the dorsal and anal fins. The abdominal cone is bright silver)'; it has no trace of a hind marginal membrane. The caudal is subtruncate; and, lastly, the cylindrical hyaline warts on the nape are very prominent and distinct. I believe that Eretmophorus belongs to the GADID^E and approaches that section to which Haloporphyrus and Physiculus belong. I am, however, inclined to think that its nearest ally may be the strange pelagic Gadoid described a few years ago (' Naturalista Siciliano,' iii. pi. 2) by my friend Dr. L. Facciola, from a single specimen got also at Messina, and named Hypsirhynchus hepaticus, Face. Later two more specimens were got at Naples, and I have one. LLypsirhynchus, which deserves to be more fully described, has much the size and shape of Eretmophorus, but there is no abdominal cone and the ventrals have seven rays, some of which are slightly prolonged and end in a rounded head ; but no fish that I know of possesses anything like the beautiful lanceolate ventral paddledike blades of Eretmophorus. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXIV. Fig. 1. Enlarged scales of Eretmophorus kleinenbergi. 2. Younger specimen, natural size. 3. Nearly adult specimen, slightly enlarged. 4. Oldest or adult specimen, once and a half natural size. 2. On a Collection of Land-Shells made in Borneo by Mr. A. Everett, with Descriptions of supposed new Species. By Lieut.-Col. H. H. G O D W I N - A U S T E N , F.R.S., F.Z.S., &c.-Part I. Cyclostomacse. [Eeceived June 1, 1889.] (Plates XXXV.-XXXIX.) INTRODUCTION. This truly fine collection was brought home in 1888 by Mr. A. Everett, and he very kindly let me see it, and handed it over to me for the identification of the species. In this work, which has been delayed from various causes, I have been assisted very materially by Dr. R. Hungerford, who had a better and previous knowledge of the shells from that part of the world, and had in his collection examples of a good many Bornean species obtained from Sir James Low, Mr. Boxall, and other sources. Mr. Edgar Smith has ako given me much aid in looking over and comparing these shells with those in the British Museum collection, and to both my sincere thanks |