General Catalogue of South African Crustacea. 573 



Darwin's own name with the species which he has taken so 

 much trouble to discriminate. 

 1910. C. darwini, Stebbing, S.A. Crustacea, pt. 5. 



From his imperfect and not quite accurate reference to 

 Gmelin, and neglect of Grnelin's synonymy, it seems obvious, 

 though strange, that Darwin did not consult Gmelin's work 

 on this particular topic. Otherwise he must have perceived 

 that Grnelin's Lcpas balcenaris was undoubtedly 3. species 

 from the northern hemisphere. Krauss, in Die Siidafrikanis- 

 chen Mollusken, p. 135, 1848, mentions Coronula balanaris, 

 Lamk., from Table Bay, with a reference to Lamarck, Ann. 

 du Mus., vol. i., p. 468, pi. 30, figs. 3-4, and says that 

 " the largest examples have a diameter of 18 lines, and adhere 

 only with their margin, but the little ones with the whole upper 

 side in the black epidermis of the whale." Perhaps he is 

 including two species under one name. 



GEN. TUBICINELLA, Lamarck. 



1802. Tubicinella, Lamarck, Annales du Museum National d'His- 



toire Naturelle, vol. i., p. 461. 

 1854. T., Darwin, The Balanidae, Bay Soc., p. 430. 



TUBICINELLA STEIATA, Lamarck. 



1802. Tubicinella striata, Lamarck, Ann. du Museum, p. 463. 

 1806. Lepas trachealis, Shaw, Shaw and Nodder's Naturalist's 



Miscellany, vol. xvii., pi. 726. 

 1848. Tubicinella balcenarum, Lamk., Krauss, Die Siidafrikanischen 



Mollusken, p. 135. 

 1854. Tubicinella trachealis, Darwin, The Balanidae, Bay Soc., 



p. 431, pi. 17, figs. 3a-3c. 

 1900. T. t., B. Merloth, Trans. S.A. Phil. Soc., vol. xi., pt. 1, p. 1. 



" From a southern right whale (Balcena australis)," cap- 

 tured in False Bay in 1898. 

 1900. T. t., Stebbing, S.A. Crustacea, pt. 1, p. 62, in Gilchrist's 



Marine Investigations, vol. i. 



Specimens (No. 38A) were sent me by Dr. Gilchrist, with the 

 statement that they were obtained from a Bight Whale taken 

 in False Bay. Darwin records the species from the Cape of 

 Good Hope. While confessedly breaking "the great law of 

 priority" in favour of Shaw's specific name trachealis, 

 Darwin, as it seems to me, gives a very misleading account 



