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ornatus, Octopus: 1852, USEE, vol. 12, p. 476, pi. 48, fig. 590,a 

 (Oahu and Maui, Sandwich [Hawaiian] Islands), length along back 

 2%, breadth 1%, of neck 1 in., of umbrella above mouth 2, below 1, 

 laterally 3 in., length of arms: upper pair 20, upper lateral 24, 

 lower lateral 20, lower 21 in.; 1862, Otia Conch., p. 232. 



orpheus, Fusus [Trophon]: 1849, PBSNH, vol. 3, p. 142 (Puget 

 Sound [Washington], Pickering), long. %, lat. % in.; 1852, USEE, 

 vol. 12, p. 234, pi. 16, fig. 285,a; 1862, Otia Conch., pp. 65, 245. 

 Figured holotype USNM 5683. 



ossea, Emarginula [Tugali]: 1846, PBSNH, vol. 2, p. 155 (Feejee 

 [Fiji] Islands), long. % , lat. % , alt. % in.; 1852, USEE, vol. 12, 

 p. 373, pi. 32, fig. 492,a-c; 1862, Otia Conch., p. 12. Syntype 

 USNM 19112 about half the size of the measured type. 



Ostodes, new genus: 1862, PBSNH, vol. 8, p. 283. Designated type 

 species: Cyclostoma strigatum Gould; 1862, Otia Conch., p. 240. 



ostrina, Purpura Plate 9, fig. 12 



1852, USEE, vol. 12, p. 244, pi. 18, fig. 310,a (Killimook [Tillamook], 

 Oregon), long. 1, diam. % in.; 1862, Otia Conch., p. 225. Lectotype, 

 here selected, MCZ 169275 ex NYSM 22, original no. G 2557. No 

 type was found in USNM. Specimens were sent out by Smith- 

 sonian Inst, with locality "Puget sound" but they are not types. 



oralis, Mactra [Spisula]: 1839, Silliman's Amer. Journ. Sci., ser. 1, 

 vol. 38, p. 196 ([Grand] Bank[s] fisheries [off Nova Scotia], in the 

 stomachs of fish; young from fish caught in Boston Harbor [Massa- 

 chusetts]), long. 4, alt. 2.7, lat. 1.9 in.; 1841, Invert. Massachusetts, 

 p. 53, fig. 32. Mentioned as being in Massachusetts State Cabinet 

 no. 229 and BSNH 2324 but both specimens lost; 1862, Otia Conch., 

 p. 179; 1870, Invert. Massachusetts, p. 75, fig. 388. Not Mactra 

 ovalis Sowerby 1817, changed to Mactra polynyma Stimpson 1860, 

 Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 2, art. 6, no. 3, p. 3. 



ovalis, Gould not Say, Succinea: 1841, Invert. Massachusetts, 

 p. 194, fig. 125; 1851, in A. Binney, Terr. Moll. U.S., vol. 2, p. 78, 

 pi. 67a, fig 3; 1870, Invert. Massachusetts, p. 445, fig. 707. See 

 Pilsbry, 1948, Land Mollusca of North America, vol. 2, pt. 2, 

 p. 782, wherein the name is changed to Oxyloma decampi gouldii. 

 Pilsbry states: "Diagnosis, remarks and figures, but not descrip- 

 tion quoted from Say." 



ovata, Erycina (Poronia) [Scintilla]: 1850, PBSNH, vol. 3, p. 218 

 (Sandwich [Hawaiian] Islands), long. %<>, alt. %, lat. % in.; 1852, 

 USEE, vol. 12, p. 401, pi. 44, fig. 587,a-c; 1862, Otia Conch., pp. 

 78, 245. Figured holotype USNM 5969. V/ 2 supposed paratypes 

 MCZ 169274 ex NYSM 368, original no. G 2659 labeled "Kauai, 

 Hawaiian Islands, USEE, from Pease." 



