THE NAUTILUS. 65 



I fully admit that the differences pointed out by the author are 

 fairly constant, and that examples are pretty easily separable from 

 the typical form of cruenta. But admitting this does not prove that 

 they ought to be held specifically distinct, and I venture to suggest 

 that they only constitute a recognisable race or variety of an already 

 known species. 



The chief object of this note, however, is to make complaint 

 respecting the name which Mr. Ford has imposed upon his so-called 

 species. 



AVhen he published Greegori as a varietal name, it was already 

 five years previously preceded by Mr. Melvill's varietal name coloba,^ 

 and therefore there is no question I think, which name should be 

 employed if this variety be regarded 'as a distinct species. Right 

 and justice {and even cou7'tesy) at once direct us in the present case. 



Mr. Ford is under the impression that Mr. Melvill was in a state 

 of uncertainty whether the form in question was a variety of cruenta 

 or cauriea. I find no such impression conveyed by Mr. Melvill's 

 sentences which are criticised by Mr. Ford. Moreover, in the cata- 

 logue of species (1. c, p. 248), Mr. Melvill ranges the var. coloha 

 under cruenta and in addition gives a representation of the ventral 

 side of the shell (PI. I, fig. 7). 



LAND MOLLUSCA OBSERVED IN THE GASPE REGION. 



A. W. HANHAM, .QUEBEC. 



About the middle of May last I left Quebec for Gasjie Basin, by 

 the way of Port Dalhousie, N. B. and the steamer "Admiral." 

 It was my intention to spend a week or more in this district collect- 

 ing shells and insects. 



Unfortunately I found the season very backward up there, the 

 weather too was wet or cold during my stay ; owing to this but little 

 collecting could be done, and I was more than disgusted having 

 journeyed so far for so little purpose. 



The following specimens were taken or seen at Barachois, near 

 Mai Bale ; this village is at the inner end of a deep bay, and is 

 distant from Gaspe Basin some 25 miles, and from Perce about 10 

 miles. 



With a few exceptions the land shells collected were found living 

 in the grass on a sandy hillside close to the beach. The open coun- 



1 Mem. and Proc. Manchester Lit. and Philos. Soc, 18S7-S. Ser. 4. Vol. I, 

 pp. 218 and 243. 



