84 THE NAUTILUS. 



genus Hauffenia of the genus Horatia, with two new species 

 from the valley of the Natisone, in Italy. These shells are very 

 small, diam. 1J to 2 mm., and almost exactly the shape of V. 

 micra and its variety nugax which measure 1.2 and 1.5 mm. 

 The resemblance is so close that I have no doubt that the Texas 

 shell belongs to the same genus, and should be called Horatia 

 (Hauffenia') micra (P. and F. ). 



Horatia seems to belong to the subfamily Lyogyrinae. The 

 operculum resembles that of Lyogyrus. I would be less dis- 

 posed to admit that our shell belongs to this Dalmatian and 

 Italian genus if it were not that two Dalmatian freshwater genera, 

 Emmericia and Lanzaia, have very close relatives in the Panuco 

 River, northeastern Mexico ; also the terrestrial genus Coilostele, 

 elsewhere known only in Mediterranean countries, has a species 

 in northeastern Mexico. H. A. PILSBRY. 



NOTE ON BIFIDARIA MINUTA ST. The name given to this 



species, NAUTILUS, Jan. 1916, p. 105, was used by PfeifTer in 



1842, his "Pupa minuta Say" being a Bifidaria. I propose 



therefore to change the name of my species to Bifidaria carnegiei. 



-V. Sterki. 



MT. MONADNOCK SHELLS. After sending you the Monadnock 

 list (p. 57) we got a specimen of Polygyra monodon Say, the very 

 young of which, in the first list, had been identified at the 

 museum as P. palliata. W. H. Dall. 



EDGAB A SMITH. 



Edgar Albert Smith F. L. S., keeper of mollusks in the British 

 Museum, died on July 22, at the age of 68. He was the son of 

 Frederick Smith, the entomologist. Smith joined the British 

 Museum in 1867, the year after the acquisition of the important 

 collection made by Hugh Cuming, with the arrangement of 

 which he was occupied for many years. On the removal to 

 South Kensington it fell to him to install the large collection in 

 the shell -gallery, which he carried out to the great benefit of the 

 many collectors and students of shells who continuously visit 

 the Museum. On this collection he published over 300 papers 

 and monographs. He became assistant-keeper in 1895, re- 

 ceived the I. S. 0. in 1903, and retired in 1913. He was Past- 

 president of the Conchological and of the Malacological Societies. 

 His extensive knowledge of conchology and of the collections 

 under his charge, and the friendly help he was always ready to 

 give will cause his loss to be regretted by a wide circle. Mu- 

 seum Journal . 



