2S PKOCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



GASTROPODA. 



OTINA, Gray. 



Otina, Gray: Proc. Zool. Soc, 1847, p. 156 (type 0. otis). 



Though I am using this familiar generic name, it may be noted 

 that there is a serious question whether it should not be superseded 

 by Galericulum of Brown, and a discussion of this point leads one 

 also to consider Velutina of Fleming. Velutina was -proposed by 

 Fleming (Edinb. Eucycl., vol. xiv, p. 626) ^ for " the Bulla velutina of 

 Miiller," which has been usually accepted as a synonym of the Helix 

 Imvigata, Linn., though some slight doubt has been thrown on the 

 identification by Hanley (Ipsa Linn. Conch., p. 388). In 1828 Fleming 

 ("British Animals," p. 326) placed in the genus Helix Icevigata, L., 

 Helix otis, Turton, and Phasianella stylifera, Turton, which latter he 

 suggested might form a new genus, Stylina. Meanwhile, in 

 1827, Brown (111. Conch. Gt. Brit., expl. pi. xxxviii) proposed the 

 genus Galericulum for Helix Icenigata and G. ovatum, n.sp., the latter 

 equalling the Helix otis of Turton (1819). It therefore becomes an 

 interesting point whether, one of Brown's species being the type 

 of the prior Velutina, the name Galericulum should not be used for 

 Helix otis, in preference to the later Otina, which, as pointed out 

 by Forbes & Hanley (Brit. Moll., vol. iii, p. 320), was proposed 

 by Gray, in his " List of Genera," in an unsatisfactory manner. 



Otina otis (Turton). 

 Helix otis, Tui-toa: Conch. Diet., 1819, p. 70. 

 "Porcupine" Expedition, 1870, Gibraltar. 



Distribution. — English, Belgian, and French coasts, and in the 

 Mediterranean. 



SIPHONARIA, Sowerby. 



SiPHONARiA Algesir^, Quoy. 

 "Porcupine" Expedition, 1870, Cadiz. 



ACTEON, Montfort. 



Acteon, Montfort : Conch. Syst., vol. ii, p. 3 14 (type Bulla tornatilis, L.). 

 I have left one broken shell from the cruise of 1870, Station 17, 

 unrecorded. 



Acteon Azoricus, Locard. 



Acteeon Azoricus, Locard: Exped. Scient. Trav. Talisman, vol. i (1897), 



p. 85, pi. iii, figs. 8-11. 

 Acteeon ovatus, Jeffreys : Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. v, vol. vi, p. 318 [nom. 

 nud.] ; Rep. Brit. Assoc, 1880, p. 387 [nom. nud.]. 

 "Porcupine" Expedition, 1870, Station 16. 

 Distribution. — Azores, 1258 metres (Locard). 



1 Probably "about 1825 to 1828" (B. B. "Woodward). 



