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Scala tincta, Cpr. Young specimens. 

 Janthina exigua, Lan. Found on beaches after storms. 

 Janthina ep. indet. False Bay. A single example. 

 *Eulima micans, Cpr. Several large shells. 

 *Eulima rutila, Cpr. One specimen. 

 *Eulima incurva, Ren. Bleached specimens. 

 Pyramidella conica, Ads., var. variegata, Cpr. A single example. 

 Turbonilla tridentata, Cooper. Large specimens. 

 *Odostomia nuciformis, Cpr. One fine shell. 



(To be concluded.) 



NOTES. 



NOTE ON TRIVIA PILULA KIKNER This minute species, hereto- 

 fore known particularly through specimens from the Hawaiian 

 Islands, was described by Kiener in his "Coquilles Vivantes," (no 

 date, but about 1840) p. 151, pi. 54, f. 2, the habitat being then 

 unknown. It was mentioned by Reeve (Conch. Iconica, 1845, p. 56, 

 f. 524*) as a synonym of the very much larger West Indian species, 

 Tr. globosa Gray. Sowerby in his " Thesaurus Conchyliorum " 

 (1870), Melvill, in his paper on the "Survey of the Genus Cypraea, 

 (1888), and Roberts, in his monograph in Tryon's Manual of Conch- 

 ology" (1885) all followed Reeve in this respect. Weinkauff, how- 

 ever, in his Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet" of Kuster (1881, 

 pp. 159, 152), deemed it entitled to specific rank. This view, in 

 which my study of these species has long since led me to concur, is 

 is now further confirmed by the opinions of three other conchologists 

 in the recent " Report to the Government of Ceylon on the Pearl 

 Oyster Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar Supp. Rept. on the Mol- 

 luscan Shells, by Robert Standen and Alfred Leicester," (1906). 

 Among the species found are mentioned both Tr. globosa and Tr. 

 pilula (by typographical error named as " Tr. fibula "), with the re- 

 mark added, as to the last named species, that they "agree with 

 Mr. J. M. Williams (of Liverpool), to whom the specimens were 

 submitted, that they are not the same as Tr. globosa Gray." 



FRED L. BUTTON. 



THE ANCET COLLECTION OF SHELLS. We learn that the col- 

 lection of shells of the late C. F. Ancey, of Mascara, Algeria, has 



