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When this paper was in its early stage of preparation, I 
visited the British Museum (Nat. History,) and made 
a few notes on some of the fine series of British and 
Foreign Czzcte contained in that collection. The excellent 
regulation which admits of the loan of specimens from 
that Institution for study was not then in force; and 
I have not since then had the opportunity to avail myself 
ofit. But when this regulation becomes more widely 
known to students it cannot be doubted that it will be a 
very great boon. 
Of the specimens figured by Davidson as 7. numesmalts 
and W. cor. in his Monograph, I have only been able 
to examine one (see C. ds); for the others are not pre- 
served in the British-Museum collection, nor is it known 
where they are to be found: they are not at Cambridge 
nor at Bath. The inability to examine them is unfor- 
tunate; for in certain cases, Vol. I, Plate v, figs, 5, 6, 8, 
for instance, Davidson depicts beak-areas which are much 
too large for Czucta. Such beak-areas are difficult to 
understand; and it was hoped that an examination of the 
figured specimens would have shewn where the dis- 
crepancy lay. Under the circumstances identification of 
these figures must be regarded as doubtful. 
Genus CINCTA, Quenstedt, 1868. 
Genotype Terebratula numismates, Valenciennes. 
1868, Cincta, Quenstedt, Petref. Deutsch]. II, pp. 25, 27. 
1877, Cincta; Dall, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 8, p. 20. 
1884, Cincta; Eugene-Deslongchamps, Etudes crit. Brach. 
Depkol.: 
1885, Cincta; Eugene-Deslongchamps, Bull. Soc. Linn. 
Norm. (3) viii, p. 275, Vol. for 1884. 
—— Waldheimia, Zeilleria, Magellania ; auctt. 
1 This is an advance offprint of the Bull. Linn, Norm, separately paged. 
