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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  MALACO 
  LOGICAL 
  SOCIETY. 
  

  

  wliich 
  I 
  consider 
  conspecific 
  with 
  Clavatida 
  metida, 
  Hinds, 
  and 
  my 
  

   conclusions 
  will 
  be 
  quickly 
  followed 
  by 
  the 
  synonymy 
  here 
  given 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  Anarithma 
  metula 
  (Hinds). 
  

   ClavatuJa 
  meiula, 
  Hinds, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc, 
  Oct. 
  1843, 
  p. 
  44. 
  Ex 
  Mus. 
  

  

  Jielcher. 
  irah.—{?). 
  Zool. 
  Voy. 
  Sulphur, 
  pi. 
  vii, 
  tig. 
  12. 
  

   Miira 
  lachryma, 
  lleeve, 
  Conch. 
  Icon., 
  Mi 
  tra, 
  sp. 
  258, 
  fig. 
  258, 
  March, 
  

  

  1845. 
  Ex 
  Mus. 
  Metcalfe. 
  Ifab.—{?) 
  

   C\_olomhella]p<imila, 
  Clienu, 
  lllust. 
  Concli., 
  pi. 
  xxii, 
  1848. 
  Hah. 
  — 
  (?) 
  

   Coliimhella 
  lachryma, 
  lleeve, 
  Conch. 
  Icon., 
  Columbi 
  sp. 
  125, 
  fig. 
  125, 
  

  

  Nov. 
  1851. 
  Ex 
  Gaskoin 
  MS. 
  In 
  Mus. 
  Cuming. 
  Hab.— 
  (?) 
  

   Cythura 
  garretiii, 
  Pease, 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc, 
  1860, 
  p. 
  147. 
  In 
  Mus, 
  

  

  Cuming. 
  Sandwich 
  Islands. 
  

   Columhella 
  pusiola, 
  Schiueltz, 
  Miis. 
  Godefi'. 
  Cat., 
  iv, 
  p. 
  88, 
  May, 
  1869, 
  

  

  nomen 
  nudum. 
  Eiji, 
  Samoa. 
  (A7iachis) 
  pustola, 
  Dunker, 
  Malak. 
  

  

  Blatt., 
  vol. 
  xviii, 
  p. 
  157, 
  1871. 
  Fiji. 
  

   Columhella 
  lachryma, 
  Hervier, 
  Journ. 
  de 
  Conch., 
  vol. 
  xlvii, 
  Dec. 
  26, 
  

  

  1899, 
  p. 
  380; 
  Lifu. 
  Var. 
  «, 
  producta, 
  p. 
  381; 
  Lifii. 
  Yar. 
  y3, 
  

  

  ahbreviata, 
  p. 
  381 
  ; 
  Lifu. 
  Var. 
  7, 
  nitescens, 
  p. 
  382; 
  Lifu. 
  

   Columhella 
  snblachrytna, 
  id., 
  p. 
  382, 
  pi. 
  xiv, 
  tig. 
  1 
  ; 
  Lifu. 
  Yar. 
  «, 
  

  

  sphcerica, 
  p. 
  384 
  ; 
  Lifu. 
  

   The 
  wanderings 
  of 
  tlie 
  names 
  from 
  genus 
  to 
  genus 
  may 
  be 
  recorded 
  

   individually 
  in 
  chronological 
  order. 
  

  

  Since 
  Hind's 
  metula 
  was 
  described 
  from 
  a 
  private 
  museum, 
  it 
  was 
  

   probably 
  inaccessible 
  to 
  most 
  workers. 
  Hence 
  Reeve 
  copied 
  Hind's 
  

   figure, 
  but 
  placed 
  it 
  in 
  his 
  genus 
  Pleurotoma, 
  sp. 
  238, 
  Nov. 
  1845, 
  

   not 
  recognizing 
  it 
  as 
  his 
  Mitra 
  lachryma 
  just 
  previously 
  figured. 
  

   Tryon, 
  again, 
  copied 
  Ileeve's 
  figure 
  Avhen 
  he 
  placed 
  it 
  in 
  MangiUa 
  

   (Man. 
  Conch., 
  vol. 
  vi, 
  1884, 
  p. 
  269, 
  pi. 
  xvi, 
  fig. 
  59), 
  the 
  figure 
  gaining 
  

   no 
  accuracy 
  in 
  the 
  process. 
  H. 
  & 
  A. 
  Adams, 
  in 
  the 
  Gen. 
  E.ec. 
  Moll., 
  

   vol. 
  i, 
  1853, 
  p. 
  96, 
  placed 
  metula 
  in 
  Befrancia, 
  and 
  Jfitra 
  lachryma, 
  

   p. 
  178, 
  in 
  Turricula 
  (Pusia). 
  The 
  unique 
  type 
  of 
  metula 
  was 
  later 
  

   acquired 
  by 
  the 
  British 
  Museum, 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  study 
  of 
  it 
  Pace 
  

   (Proc. 
  Malac. 
  Soc, 
  vol. 
  v, 
  1902, 
  p. 
  106, 
  April) 
  classed 
  it 
  with 
  the 
  

   Columbellidfe, 
  but 
  without 
  any 
  note 
  as 
  to 
  its 
  identity. 
  I 
  believe 
  this 
  

   is 
  the 
  first 
  time 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  recognized 
  as 
  conspecific 
  with 
  " 
  lachryma 
  ". 
  

   As 
  indicated 
  above. 
  Reeve 
  described 
  a 
  Mitra 
  and 
  later 
  a 
  Columhella 
  

   under 
  tlie 
  same 
  specific 
  name 
  ^^ 
  lachryma^' 
  . 
  It 
  appears 
  probable 
  that 
  

   Gaskoin, 
  to 
  whom 
  the 
  latter 
  name 
  was 
  accredited, 
  had 
  recognized 
  

   the 
  Reevean 
  Milra 
  in 
  a 
  shell 
  in 
  the 
  Cuming 
  Collection, 
  and 
  Reeve 
  

   was 
  ignorant 
  of 
  this 
  fact. 
  Chenu 
  was 
  the 
  first 
  to 
  place 
  it 
  in 
  

   Colomhella 
  \_sie~\, 
  and 
  of 
  course, 
  not 
  concerned 
  with 
  Clavatida 
  and 
  

   Mitra, 
  gave 
  it 
  a 
  new 
  specific 
  name 
  ^' 
  pamila". 
  Pease, 
  ignorant 
  of 
  

   the 
  preceding 
  history, 
  called 
  it 
  Cythara 
  garrettii 
  when 
  he 
  procured 
  it 
  

   at 
  the 
  Sandwich 
  Islands, 
  this 
  being 
  the 
  first 
  localitj' 
  ascertained. 
  

  

  Carpenter, 
  in 
  the 
  Proc. 
  Zool. 
  Soc, 
  1865, 
  p. 
  516, 
  wrote 
  a 
  note 
  upon 
  

   Pease's 
  manuscript 
  (?) 
  names, 
  observing 
  " 
  C[ithara^ 
  garrettii 
  is 
  a 
  

   Mitrella^'. 
  1 
  have 
  great 
  respect 
  for 
  the 
  accuracy 
  displayed 
  by 
  

   Carpenter, 
  and 
  cannot 
  understand 
  how 
  he 
  should 
  have 
  blundered 
  so 
  

   badly 
  in 
  this 
  instance, 
  since 
  Pease's 
  names 
  had 
  been 
  published 
  in 
  the 
  

  

  