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lip crenulate, ridged within, with a shallow, wide sinus; colu- 
mellar lip with a median callosity. Length, 9 mill. 
Ceylon. 
Described from a single specimen. 
» D. BEtLaARDI, Jousseaume. PI. 34, fig. 8. 
Shell white, spirally costate; outer lip crenulated, with a 
shallow sinus near the suture; columellar lip with a median pli- 
cation. Length, 11 mill. 
Hab. unknown. 
The above three species are, judging from the figures, described 
from immature and imperfect, possibly water-worn specimens, 
so that it is not easy to compare them with previously described 
species. Thereare a number of spirally ribbed species described 
by Smith and older authors to which these may be approximated, 
but in the absence of material, no definite result is practicable. 
The practice of describing unique and imperfect specimens can- 
not be too strongly condemned. Desire for scientific renown 
will continue to enlarge our synonymy, until some method can 
be devised, by which no man’s ambition can possibly be gratified 
in the making of generic and specific names. Although Dr. 
Jousseaume has furnished the text of this sermon, it is not 
intended to signalize him as a principal offender; much greater 
men—in fact the greatest conchologists are equally in fault in 
their desire to write nobis as frequently as possible. 
DRILLIA LIMONITELLA, Dall. Pl. 34, fig. 6. 
Small, thin, translucent, lemon-yellow, very faintly narrowly 
brown-banded on the periphery and below it on some specimens, 
the columella also brown-tinged ; whorls turreted, nodulated at 
the periphery by about a dozen ribs, which extend across the 
shoulder to the suture, spiral sculpture very fine and close; outer 
lip slightly thickened, with a distinct, rather broad, shallow 
sinus. Length, 6°75 mill. 
Cedar Keys, Fla., on mud flats between tides (Hemphill). 
CotumBARiuM PacoporpEs, Watson. 
This species, recently described as a Fusus, is probably only 
a variety of C. Pagoda, Lesson. It is unfigured. 
Off Sydney, N. S. W. 
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