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Spain and Portugal, 4-30 f. (M' Andrew) ; Italy (Costa 

 and others); Algiers, 6-10 f. (M' Andrew and Wein- 

 kanff) ; Black Sea and Crimea (Middendorff) ; iEgean, 

 27 f. (Forbes) . 



Dr. Goodall told me that Turton introduced himself 

 to him at Torquay, by sending in his card on which was 

 written " Sic pictores Coi," accompanied with speci- 

 mens of this shell. It reminds us somewhat of the 

 epilogue in one of the Idyls of Theocritus, in which 

 Menalcas is supposed to be presented with a kcl\ov 

 oarpaKov as a compliment. The learned Provost of 

 Eton, however, was anything but a piping shepherd. 



It is the Buccinum tuberculatum and Tritonia varicosa 

 of Turton, and (according to Fischer) the B. tritonium 

 of De Blainville in the ' Faune Francaise/ 



Some tropical species of Nassa and of the allied genus 

 Planaxis have been erroneously described as European. 

 Such are : — 



N. hepatic a : Weymouth (Pulteney) ; Lough Strang- 

 ford (Brown) ; St. Germain- sur- Ay (De Gerville) . West 

 Indies. 



N. ambigua : Weymouth (Bryer) ; Cork Harbour 

 (Humphreys) ; Portmarnock, Dublin Bay (Turton) ; 

 Herm (Lukis) j north of France (De Gerville and Bou- 

 chard-Chantereaux) ; Toulon (Martin) . A common West- 

 Indian shell. 



Planaxis lineatus=z Buccinum pedicular e, Lam., in- 

 serted in several local lists as English and French : an 

 abundant West-Indian shell. 



P. Brasilianus — Hima laevigata, Leach (Syn. Moll. Gr. 

 Brit.), said to be from Plymouth (Prideaux or Cranch) : 

 South America. 



