108 THE NAUTILUS. 



and any assistance from older institutions or their members will be 

 sincerely appreciated. 



LEPIDOPLEUKUS IN NEW ZEALAND. Pome months ago we re- 

 ceived numerous specimens of a Lepidopleurm from Mr. H Suter ; 

 collected by him in Auckland Harbor. The species seemed to us 

 to be a new one; but on requesting Mr. E. R. Sykes of London to 

 compare with the types of certain forms in the British Museum, he 

 found it to be identical with Reeve's Chiton inquinatus a result 

 wholly unexpected. The species was described from Tasmania, but 

 South Australian specimens we have seen (collected by Mr. Bed- 

 nail) agree in all respects with those found by Mr. Suter in New 

 Zealand. if. .1. P. 



THE EARLIEST PUBLICATION OF Dorcasia GRAY. In examining 

 the appendix of James Edward Alexander's Expedition of Discov- 

 ery into the Interior of Africa (London, 1838), I find on p. 268 of 

 volume II, a description by Gray of the genus Dorcasia and the 

 species D. ah'.candri. This group has hitherto been dated from its 

 publication in the Zeitschrift fur Malakozoologie, 1845. Helicodonta 

 sculpturiitii Gray (== Sculptaria senljilin-ntii') is also described, with 

 (on p. 269) two alleged Bulimi, B. hutfeiitota and B. eulimoide. All 

 were collected by the expedition about the Great Fish River in 

 Great Namaqualand. B. eulimoiile apparently belongs to theSteno- 

 gyra group. This publication seems to have been unknown to 

 Pfeiff'er and other writers on African land snails. Pilsbry. 



ON THE NAMES OF CERTAIN SUBGENERA OF Helicostyla. For 

 some inscrutable reason, the writer, when considering these groups in 

 the Manual of Conchology, neglected to ascertain the fact that the 

 names Prochilm and Endoxus of Albers have long been preoccupied. 

 They may stand in future as follows : 



Dolichostyla n. n. (Prochihis Alb., I860, not of Illiger, 1811, 

 Mammalia, nor of Brulle, 1835, Orthoptera, nor of Cuvier, 1817, 

 Pisces). 



0]Mfl!fixt</l<t n. n. (= Eudo.rns Alb., 1850, not of Kirby, 1837, 

 Coleoptera). The types and limits of the groups remain as stated 

 in Man. Conch. (2), ix, pp. 229, 231. Pilsbry. 



SINISTRAL PATULA STRIGOSA. My brother, L. M. Cockerel 1, 

 took a sinistral P. ttrigosa at Norwood, Colorado. It was in my 

 possession for a long while, but is now in the British Museum. 



T. D. A. Cockerell. 



