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Heliomanes, Moquin-Taudon. 

 Mr. B. B. AVoodward kindly allowed me to see a proof of the List 

 of British jS'ou-mariue Mollusca prepared by A. S. Kennard and 

 himself. I noticed as a sub-genus of Helicella, Ferussac, appeared the 

 name Heliomanes, Mo(iuin-Tandon, 1855. I pointed out that according 

 to the Nomenclators this name was invalid.' It was therefore replaced 

 hy Heliomanes, Ferussac, 1821, which appears on p. 6. I had no 

 interest in the subject, and nothing further would have been heard 

 from me had the matter not cropped up again in a different direction. 

 Conversing with Mr. G. K. Gude, he mentioned the genus-name 

 Pupoides, Pfeiffer. I remembered Connolly (Revised Reference List 

 South African Non-marine Mollusca, 1912, p. 176) had commented 

 upon the validity of this name, whereupon Mr. Gude referred to that 

 work. Connolly's remarks are: "There is, however, an earlier 

 Pupoiiles, proposed by Ferussac (Tabl. Syst., pt. 3, p. 61, 1821) as 

 a section of Cochhdina, but on an equal footing with Clausilia, Pupa, 

 and Cydostomar Mr. Gude and I then consulted Ferussac's work, 

 and our conclusions do not agree with Connolly's, and, moreover, 

 HelionuDies occurs in the same place. Mr. Edgar A. Smith was then 

 called in to advise, and I asked permission to put on record our results. 

 Pupoides occurs as quoted by Connolly on p. 61 of part iii of 

 Ferussac's Tabl. 8yst., but on pp. 27-8 a synopsis is given entitled 

 " Tableau Synoptique des subdivisions du genre Helix, Helix, nobis ". 

 On p. 28 we have " Sixieme sous-genre Helicelle, Helicella" , which 

 is divided into 



" Les Lomastomes, Lomastomce, 



Les Aplostomes, Aplostonm, 



Les Hygromanes, Hygromanes, 



Les Heliomanes, Heliomanes.'''' 

 On the same page " Huitieme sous-genre Cochlostyle, Cochlostyh", 

 is divided into 



" Les Lomastomes, Lo)iiaHtoma, 



Les Aplostomes, Aplostomce,'''' 

 and, further, " Quatorzieme sous-genre Cochlodine, Cochhdina,'''' is 

 divided into 



" Les Pupoides, Pupoides, 



Les Tracheloides, Tracheloides, 



Les Anomales, Anomales, 



Les Clausilies, Clatisilice, Draparn." 

 Other sectional names used are Lamellatce, Marginatce, Turritce, 

 UmhilicatfB, Perforata, etc. 



It is obvious that such cannot be regarded as names available for 

 generic or subgeneric usage. The fact that Heliomanes and Pupoides 

 are Greek plurals, whei'eas most of the others are of Latin form, 

 cannot legitimize these. The only conclusion possible is that 

 Heliomanes cannot be quoted as of this introduction, and when later 

 correctly utilized by Moquin-Tandoii it had been appropriated 



' Heiiomanes, E. Newman, Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. v, p. 17, March, 1840. 



