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Leucozonia cingiilata. 



Mitra leus. 



Oliva porphyria, Melchersi, Cumingii, 

 siibangiilata. 



Olivella tergiiia, gracilis, volutella (seve- 

 ral taJven alive). 



Agaronia testacea. 



Purpura patula, biserialis, triangularis, 

 muricata, planospira J. 



Nitidella cribraria. 



Coliirabella fuscata, var. 



Conella cedo-nuUi. 



Na?sa luteostoma, scabriuscula, corpii- 



lenta. 

 Pvrula patula. 

 Fusus Diipetithouarsii. 

 Siplionalia pallida. 

 Strombina (? new, deep water, S.in 



Jose). 

 Pisania sanguinolenta, insignis. 

 Murex plicatus, recurvirostris. 

 Pliylloiiotus uigritus, brassica, princepg, 



bicolor. 

 Muricidea dubia. 



Lieut. Green having been obliged to pack up his collection and leave home 

 on professional duty, I was not able to make any critical examination of it, 

 Capt. Dupout also, of Delaware, was one of the " Mexican-war naturalists," 

 and made a large collection of La Paz shells during his campaign ; but I had 

 no opportunity of seeing them. 



Dr. Gould notes the following corrections in Lieut. Green's list, pp. 231- 

 234:— 

 Scmde Jlavicans should hejlavescens. | Donax ahruptiis should be ohesus. 



50. Kellett and Wood. — The locality-marks, on further study, display still 

 greater inaccuracies. 



Nassa Woodicardii, Fbs., Sandwich Islands [is the adolescent state of a very abun- 

 dant Vancouver and Califoruian shell, = iV'. menrh'ca, Old.]. 



I\'(tssn Cooperi, Fbs., Sandwich Islands. [The type is immature and in poor con- 

 dition ; but it is a rare Califoruian species, since found by Dr. Cooper.] 



Trnchita spirnta [has not been confirmed from (jidf Cal., but appears in Brit. Mug. 

 from St. Vincent, Cape Vei'dls., on the excellent authority of Macgillivray, who 

 did not visit the West Coast. The Cumingian specimens were from K. and W. ; 

 but the '^spirata, var.," from Magellan and Peru, are simply turrited forms of T. 

 radians]. 



CliJorosti'ma aiireotincta [=C. 7iifferrima (Gmel.), Mus. Cum.; but it is imlikely 

 that Gmelin knew the species. It is not quoted by Desh. (Lam. ix. 157) : but 

 tlie Trochus infaucc niyerrimus, Chemn. f. 152G, = T. mclanostomits, Gmel., is a 

 Bisella.'] 



JSIaiijaritu purpurafa et Hillii [are South American shells]. 



Purpura analoga [is the rough iiTegular form of P. canaIicidnfa=decc)ncosfofa']. 

 „ fuscata, Fbs. [of which one brown and one whitish specimen (immature) 

 are preserved in the Brit. Mus. as types, is the large, smooth, rather elevated var. 

 of saxicola. It belongs to the Vancouver district]. 



Pu'pKra, like decem-costafus and Freyrint'tii [is the normal state of saxicola. The 

 banded smooth var. is named in Brit. Mus. " ? Jiuc. striatum^ Marty u, Un. 

 Conch, no. 7," but does not agree with the figure]. 



JPu^iis KcUettii. [This Siplnmalia, after long remaining unique in the Brit. Mus. 

 Col., has been twice confirmed from the San Diegan district by the Smithsonian 

 collectors. Dr. Cooper's living specimen is 6-25 in. long ; and one specimen 

 was dredged by A. Ad. in the seas of South Japan.] 



51. Reif/en. — The type collection, presented to the Brit. Mus., contains 

 about 8900 specimens. The first duplicate series, containing aboiit 6000 

 shells, was presented to the State of jSTew York at the urgent request of 

 Dr. Newcomb (well known for his researches in Achatinella, made during his 

 professional residence in the Sandwich Islands), and is arranged in the Albany 

 Museum. Three other typical series were prepared for the Museums of 

 Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, and offered on the same terms, viz. that 

 they should be arranged by the author, and preserved intact for the free use 



:;: Dead sliells at La Paz ; two li'csh epecimcus in deep water from San Joic ; ditto, 

 Lieut. Green, 



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