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from the southern and eastern coasts of the United States: Eulima conoidea 

 Kurtz & Stimpson (Carolina coast to the Florida Keys and fossil in the 

 Pliocene of South Carolina) ; Eulima gracilis C. B. Adams (Antilles and Yu- 

 catan to Cape Fear, N". C.) ; Eulima subcarinata Orbigny (18-12, + E. oleacea, 

 Tryon, Man., VIII. pi. lxix. fig. 36, non Kurtz & Stimpson, Antilles to Flor- 

 ida and Hatteras); Eulima Varolii Dull (E. affinis C. B. Adams, 1850, non 

 Philippi, 1841, Jamaica, Florida to North Carolina, in 8-63 this., sand); and 

 Eulima (Melanella) gibba De Folin (63 fras., sand, off Cape Hatteras), origi- 

 nally from West America. 



The " Odostomia" alba of Calkins (Davenport, Iowa, Acad. Sci., p. 239, 

 pi. viii. fig. 3, 1878; non Jeffreys, 1857); described from Florida, on a compari- 

 son of the original type kindly lent me by Mr. T. H. Aldrich of Cincinnati, 

 proves to be Eulima conoidea Kurtz & Stimpson. Both the original figure 

 and Tryon's copy of it look very little like the specimen itself. 



Section EULIMA s. s. 

 Eulima intermedia Cantraine. 



Eulima oleacea Kurtz & Stimpson, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., IV. p. 115, 1851. 

 Eulima intermedia Cantraine, Bull. Acad. Bruxelles, p. 14, 1835. Jeffreys, P. Z. S. 

 1884, p. 366 ; Brit. Conch., IV. p. 503, V. p. 214, pi. lxxvii. fig. 4. 



Habitat. Barbados, in 100 fms. Northward to New England. Mediterra- 

 nean, British Seas, etc. 



It is probable that the name of intermedia ought not to stand, as the original 

 description would have applied to any Eulima and many other shells. It 

 would have been impossible to identify Cantraine's shell except with his speci- 

 mens. On the other hand, the name has come into use, and the shell has been 

 identified, while the American name and species are little known. I have 

 compared authentic specimens of both species, and have no doubt of their 

 identity. 



Eulima jamaicensis C. B. Adams. 

 Eulima jamaicensis C. B. Adams, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., II. p. 6, 1845. 



Habitat. Gulf of Mexico, Station 20, in 220 fms.; also Barbados, in 100 

 fms. Florida, Hemphill and Jewett. 



For some time Mr. Tryon identified this species with Eulima pusilla Sow- 

 erby. In his Manual he does not unite them, but unites two equally dis- 

 similar species under that name (cf. figs. 6, 7, pi. lxviii., Man., Vol. VIII.). He 

 also identified for the Museum Eulima gracilis C. B. Adams as E. pusilla Sby., 

 but gracilis is very easily distinguishable from jamaicensis. These errors are 

 not repeated in the Manual, but are worth mentioning, for the sake of numer- 

 ous collectors, for whom the above identifications were made, and who may 

 not be aware that Mr. Tryon finally came to a different opinion. The speci- 

 mens in the National Museum were received from Prof. Adams, and have 

 lately been compared with his original type. 



