456 ANNALS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM. 
Dr. Hartman in his identification of this species with P. coxz Angas 
MS. (letter from Smith, Oct. 2, 1884). It was P. pellucida, not P. 
coxt, which Brazier gave to Pease. 
4246. ‘‘ Partula pellucida Pse., Ysabel Isld., Solomon Islds. (Coll. 
Cox).’’ On the back of the card, written with pencil and partly erased, 
but still legible: ‘‘ This is the type z¢exs, compared with the example in 
the British Museum. Young examples.’’ Over this is written in ink : 
‘‘'This is pellucida from Brazier’s type examples.’’ Three specimens 
and two photographs mounted on the same card. ‘The photographs 
agree well with two of the specimens on the card, but may represent 
other examples which were returned to Brazier. One of them is 
the original of the figure published by Dr. Hartman, Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Seehilas, 1886, Pl. Ils Migeiye Dr Cox sent the specimenseto 
Dr. Hartman, labeled P. cox? Angas MS. P. coxi and pellucida, 
were collected about the same time by Brazier, and perhaps on the 
same island. Brazier sent specimens of /e//ucida to Pease, who 
described the species in Proc. Zoél. Soc. Lond., 1871, p. 457, but 
did not figure it. He gave specimens of both species to Dr. Cox, who 
evidently confounded them, for Angas gave the MS. name cox? 
to specimens which Dr. Cox had sent him, and the latter sent speci- 
mens of felducida to Dr. Hartman labeled coxz. He gave the true 
coxt, properly labeled, to Garrett, as appears from Garrett’s letter 
of Jan. 25,1885: <* Dhe L. coxz you sent 1s exactly the same as 
received from the Doctor (Cox). The small species you refer to 
micans is probably pellucida Pse. His “granulated surface’ is only 
the incremental strize cutting the spiral lines.’’ 
The specimens of 
pellucida were, in fact, referred to micans by E. A. Smith, of the 
British Museum, when Dr. Hartman sent them to him for comparison 
in 1879 ; he acknowledged his mistake later (letter of Oct. 2, 1884 ) 
and Dr. Hartman accepted Garrett’s suggestion that the shells were 
identical with P. pellucida Pse. (see his observations under P. coxz, 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phila., 1886, p. 32). Garrett had specimens of 
pellucida in his own collection. 
There is equal confusion and more uncertainty regarding the habi- 
tats of the two species. The specimens of both are labeled ‘‘ Ysabel 
Island’’ in the Hartman collection, but Dr. Hartman gives this 
locality only for 2. cox im Proc. Acad: Nat.Sc. Phila., 1835>5p: 
217, and in his MS. catalogue ; in the same papers P. fel/ucida is 
said to be from Guadalcanar Island. Garrett gives ‘‘ Guadalcanar 
