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viction regarding its affinities. It is held to be a Pleurotomid 
by Tryon and Cossmann, but some other authors apparently 
consider it more closely affiliated with Buccinum. In Dono- 
vania the shell is very small in size, generally slender, with 
four or five body whorls which are evenly and feebly convex 
from suture to suture and without trace of fasciolar surface. 
The sculpture is strong and relatively very coarse, either 
simply clathrate or with rounded ribs, the coarse spiral lyrae 
mutually equal and some four in number. The aperture is 
short, from distinctly less to decidedly more than a third as 
long as the shell and is broadly oval. The canal is extremely 
short but rather well differentiated and the embryo is rela- 
tively large in size, hemispherical, smooth and paucispiral. 
It inhabits the present European seas. 
It is stated by Cossmann that the genus Wesaea, of Risso, 
which, being preoccupied, was named Chauvetia by Montero- 
sato, is synonymous with Donovania and that the Folinaea, of 
Monterosato, founded upon Buccinum lefebvrei Marav., is also 
synonymous, but, as Cossmann states — after Tryon— that 
Donovania in its broad sense occurs not only in the Medi- 
terranean but in Japan, the East Indies and the Island of St. 
Paul, it is probable that there are a few really distinct genera 
confounded under that name, which lack of material and 
complete literature of the subject prevent me from investigat- 
ing at present. Donovania minima, the type of the genus, 
according to Bellardi and Cossmann, occurs also in the 
Italian Pliocene and Post-pliocene strata, being described 
from the former under the name Lachesis brunnea Donovy. 
The association of Donovania with Bela, which has been 
suggested, appears to me to be wholly unwarranted. 
DAPHNELLINI. 
This enormous complex, one of the largest of the Gastro- 
pod series, is composed of moderately small to minute species, 
occupying diversified environments throughout the globe, but 
particularly abundant in the Indo-Pacific region and wonder- 
fully developed near New Caledonia. In comparison with 
known living forms, the fossils are very few in number and 
