On Moths from East Africa. 375 Only a single half-grown right valve. It is very much shorter than the specimen figured, being quite as high as long. The form becomes proportionally longer with age, as tiie growth posteriorly is more rapid than ventrally. Tellina pnrvula, Smith. Tellina parvula, Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1895, vol. xvi. p. 10, pi. ii. fio-. 3. Hah. Off Colombo, in 675 fathoms. The single specimen is rather larger than the type, being 18| millim. in length and 13 in height. Scrohicularia ceylonica. Testa inaequilateralis, alba, nitida, lineis increraenti striata, lunulata : valvte tenues, mediocriter profundoe, antics late curvatae, posfcice breviores, subacuminatse, anguste hiantes ; margo dorsi anticus leviter concavus, parum descendens, posticus valde obliquus ; margo ventris pone medium subincurvatus ; lunula angusta, lanceolata ; ligamentura externum 5 millim. longura, internum parvum, angustum, obliquum ; dens cardinalis unicus in utraque valva plus minus bilidus ; dcntes laterales nulli ; pagina interna radiatim substriata ; sinus pallii latus, profundissimus. Lojigit. 21 millim., alt. 17, diam. U. Hob. Off Colombo, in 675 fathoms. The internal ligament is quite separated from the external one. Dohinia salehrosa, Romer. Uosim'a salehronu, Rtimer, Proc. Zool. Soc. 18G0, p. 122 ; Novitates Conch, p. 50. Hah. Malacca (Bdmer) ; west of Cochin, lat. N. 9° 34' 57", long. E. 75° 36' 30'', in 406 fathoms. A single specimen, a little smaller than the type, but similar in other respects, is all that was obtained. LVI. — On a Collection of Moths from East Africa formed hy Dr. W. J. Aiisorge^ Medical Officer to the Uganda Administration. By W. F. KiRBY, Assistant in Zoolo-gical Department, British Museum (Natural History). [Plate XIX.] DueinCt Dr. Ansorge's travels in some little-visited parts of East Africa in 1893-1895 he formed a collection of moths, among which were several new or rare species. In the present
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