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CHONDROPOMA WILCOXI n. sp. 



The shell is perforate, ovate-twisted, truncate, 3 to 3^ whorls 

 remaining. Pale fleshy buff, indistinctly marked with spiral series 

 of small brown dots. On the last whorl there are 6 such rows, three 

 more distinct ; on preceding whorls there are four rows of dots ; the 

 suture has a narrow whitish margin below. Sculpture of many 

 subequal spiral threads intersected at right angles with narrower, 

 slightly weaker, axial laminas, producing an evenly latticed surface ; 

 on the last whorl there are about 40 spirals. The whorls are rather 

 strongly convex ; last whorl ascending slightly to the aperture. The 

 aperture is vertical, ovate, somewhat acuminate above, brown inside. 

 The peristome is white ; it expands a trifle, and is somewhat thick- 

 ened on the face, which is narrow and convex. At the upper angle 

 it is a very little dilated. 



Length 19, diam. 11, length of aperture 8^ mm. 



Rosario, east shore of Ensenado Cochinas, in forest. Henderson 

 and Simpson. 



STRANGE NAMES FOR OLD ACQUAINTANCES 



BY C. HEDLEY AND H. A. PILSBRY. 



It is pleasant to find that there was a time when the editor was 

 not regarded as the natural enemy of his contributor. Thus when 

 Dr. Johann Hermann, aforetime Professor at Strassburg, presents 

 an essay on conchology to his friend the editor of " Der Natur- 

 forscher" he greets him cordially and at the conclusion takes affec- 

 tionate leave. 



Did this quaint old essay not disturb our nomenclature, we should 

 not need to disturb the dust which for nearly a century and a half 

 has gathered on this venerable periodical. But the names which 

 Hermann gave have escaped the attention of most modern writers, 

 yet they are presented regularly and precede several now in use. 

 Like Marryat, the novelist, our author made but a single contribu- 

 tion to molluscan literature. In the professor we find a careful 

 worker: not only did he fulfill the modern requirements of nomencla- 

 ture, but he embellished his paper by a colored engraving illustrating 

 five species. 



