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B. B. Woodward for J. B. Tomlin: Specimens of Vertigo Lilljeborgii, 
Westl., from Ballynahinch, Galway; V. Moulinsiana, Dup., from 
Wicken Fen; V. Heldi, Cless., from Co. Antrim; Pseudamnicola 
anatina (Drap.), from Oulton Broad; and Suecinea oblonga, var. agono- 
stoma, Kstr., from Lower Loch Erne. 
The Rey. R. Ashington Bullen, A. 8S. Kennard, and B. B. Woodward : 
Specimens in illustration of their papers. 
ORDINARY MEETING. 
Fripay, 38rp Aprit, 1903. 
E. A. Smrru, F.Z.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 
The following communications were read :— 
1. ‘‘ Additions to the genus Streptaxis.” By G. K. Gude, F.Z.S. 
2. “On a new species of the genus Xylophaga from the English 
Coast.” By E. A. Smith, F.ZS. 
3. ‘Notes on some new or little-known members of the family 
Doridiide.”’ By Sir Charles Eliot, K C.M.G. 
4. ““On a new species of Cerastus from near Aden, with a note on 
Otopoma clausum, Sby.”’ By E. R. Sykes, B.A., F.L.S. 
5. ‘* Descriptions of two supposed new species of Cyathopoma.” By 
H. B. Preston, F.Z.S. 
6. ‘On shells floating on the surface of the sea.” By August 
Krogh, M.Sc. (Communicated by A. C. Johansen, M.Sc.) 
Exhibits were placed on the table by the following :— 
E. A. Smith: An abnormal specimen of Argonauta, and specimens 
of Vitrina Baringoensis, Smith. 
A. 5. Kennard: Recent and fossil specimens of Hulota fruticum 
(Miull.), from England and Central Europe. 
E. R. Sykes: Cassidaria tyrrhena, Chemn., from off the Scilly Isles, 
and Tritonofusus fusiformis (Brod.), from the west coast of Ireland. 
K. A. Smith, KE. R. Sykes, ‘and H. B. Preston: Specimens in illus- 
tration of their papers. 
N OT Eis: 
Notr oN THE GENERIC NAME Buzrurnus. (Read 13th March, 1903.)— 
In 1831, Ehrenberg (Symbole Phys.) proposed the name Lwulimina for 
a genus of land-shells having for type the Bulimus labrosus of Olivier. 
Beck, in 1837, appears to have converted this into Buliminus, and in this 
form it has been employed ever since. The name, however, cannot 
stand, it having been already given by D’Orbigny in 1826 to a genus of 
Foraminifera (Ann. Sci. nat., tom. vii, p. 269). 
The next oldest name for species of this group is that of Ena, proposed 
by Leach in the proof-sheets of his Synopsis Moll. Gt. Brit. (p. 80) that 
