BY C. HEDLEY. 511 



Salinator, nom.nov. 

 Ampullarina, auctorum. 



If any conchological textbook be consulted as to the status of 

 Ampullarina, it will be found given as a subgenus of Amphibola, 

 and ascribed to Sowerby, under date 1842, with A. fragilis as 

 type. 



Scudder, in the Supplemental List of the Nomenclator Zoolo- 



gicus, 1882, p. 18, treats the name thus : — " Ampullarina, . 



Teste Sowerby, Conch. Man. ed. 2, p. 64. (Err. typ. 1 pro Ampul- 

 lacera). 1842. Moll." 



The second edition is inaccessible to me, but on consulting the 

 third (1846) edition of Sowerby's Manual, the suspicions aroused 

 by Scudder are amply justified. Ampullarina is doubtless 

 Amjmllacera wrongly copied from a MS. label. The name is 

 introduced not as of Sowerby, but as of an unknown author. It 

 is thus defined : — "A genus formed for the reception of Ampul- 

 laria avellana, f. 58. From Australia." The figure quoted 

 represents the New Zealand species, avellana^ not the Australian 

 fragilis. On p. 312, in the explanation of plates, Sowerby 

 actually notes that the genus is that called Thallicera by Swain- 

 son. 



Authors appear to have assumed that because Australia was 

 named as the habitat of the type, that fragilis not avellana was 

 indicated. Such assumption is quite unjustifiable in the face of 

 the facts that — (1) Sowerby names avellana, (2) that he figures 

 it, and (3) that he regards Ampullarina as synonymous with 

 Thallicera. 



The literary history of Ampullarina offers a singular parallel 

 to that of Pelicaria proposed for a New Zealand species and 

 wrongly referred to an Australian shell.* 



As the group typified by Ampullaria fragilis of Lamarck is 

 now shown to be nameless, it devolves on me to suggest a name 



* G. F. Harris, Cat. Tert. Moll. B.M. Pt. L, 1897, p. 218. 



