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  rKOCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  MALACOLOGICAL 
  SOCIETy. 
  

  

  le 
  departementdu 
  l*as-de-Calais 
  ". 
  The 
  British 
  mollusc 
  is 
  a 
  stranger 
  

   to 
  this 
  locality 
  also, 
  and 
  Bouchard's 
  shells 
  were 
  probably, 
  as 
  

   suggested 
  by 
  Moquin-Tandon 
  [Hist. 
  Nat. 
  Moll. 
  France, 
  ii, 
  p. 
  212) 
  

   and 
  su"bsequently 
  by 
  Jeffreys 
  {Brit. 
  Conch., 
  i, 
  p. 
  204), 
  referable 
  to 
  

  

  I£. 
  fuHCCl. 
  

  

  To 
  H.fusca, 
  also, 
  may 
  be 
  referred 
  the 
  examples 
  figured 
  by 
  Captain 
  

   T. 
  Brown 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  edition 
  (1827) 
  of 
  his 
  Illustrations 
  of 
  the 
  

   Conchology 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain 
  aiid 
  Ireland 
  (pi. 
  xl, 
  f. 
  3-5) 
  under 
  the 
  

   name 
  of 
  Vitrina 
  memhranacea, 
  but 
  which 
  in 
  the 
  second 
  edition 
  

   (1837-44) 
  and 
  the 
  subsequent 
  Illustrations 
  of 
  the 
  land 
  and 
  Fresh 
  

   Water 
  Conchology 
  of 
  Great 
  Britain 
  and 
  Ireland 
  he 
  described 
  as 
  

   H. 
  revelata. 
  

  

  In 
  October, 
  1839, 
  J. 
  C. 
  Bellamy 
  found 
  near 
  Mevagissy, 
  Cornwall, 
  

   a 
  helix 
  new 
  to 
  him 
  for 
  which 
  he 
  proposed 
  the 
  trivial 
  name 
  of 
  

   sahvirescens 
  (Bellamy's 
  Nat. 
  IJist. 
  South 
  Devon, 
  p. 
  420, 
  fig. 
  " 
  Tab. 
  

   xviii"). 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  same 
  year 
  (and 
  according 
  to 
  Couch 
  a 
  little 
  later) 
  Edward 
  

   Eorbes 
  brought 
  to 
  Dr. 
  Gray 
  specimens 
  from 
  near 
  Doyle's 
  monument, 
  

   Guernsey, 
  which 
  they 
  identified, 
  probably 
  as 
  already 
  remarked, 
  

   through 
  Michaud's 
  description 
  and 
  figures, 
  with 
  H. 
  revelata, 
  

   Ferussac 
  (Turton's 
  Manual, 
  new 
  ed. 
  by 
  J. 
  E. 
  Gray, 
  1840, 
  ]>p. 
  53, 
  

   152-153). 
  

  

  Bellamy 
  exhibited 
  his 
  shell 
  to 
  the 
  meeting 
  of 
  the 
  Britisli 
  

   Association 
  at 
  Plymouth 
  in 
  1841, 
  but 
  its 
  name 
  does 
  not 
  appear 
  in 
  

   the 
  "Report".' 
  However, 
  Couch 
  in 
  his 
  Cornish 
  Fauna 
  (Pt. 
  ii, 
  

   p. 
  47) 
  nnder 
  Helix 
  revelata 
  remarks: 
  ''Mr. 
  Bellamy 
  discovered 
  this 
  

   species 
  near 
  Mevagissy, 
  and 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  since 
  found 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Forbes 
  in 
  

   Guernsey. 
  Mr. 
  Bellamy's 
  original 
  specimen 
  was 
  examined 
  by 
  the 
  

   eminent 
  naturalists 
  present 
  at 
  the 
  meeting 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  nnd 
  especially 
  

   by 
  Mr. 
  Gray." 
  

  

  From 
  the 
  foregoing 
  it 
  becomes 
  apparent 
  that 
  our 
  British 
  shell 
  lias 
  

   been 
  misidentified 
  with 
  the 
  H. 
  revelata 
  of 
  Ferussac 
  and 
  of 
  Michaud, 
  

   and 
  should 
  bear 
  tlie 
  name 
  bestowed 
  on 
  it 
  by 
  Bellamy 
  of 
  S. 
  sub- 
  

   virescens. 
  

  

  Mention 
  may 
  appropriately 
  be 
  made 
  here 
  of 
  certain 
  Continental 
  

   forms 
  closely 
  allied 
  to 
  the 
  one 
  in 
  question 
  wliicb 
  have 
  sometimes 
  

   been 
  associated 
  with 
  it 
  in 
  synonymy. 
  

  

  In 
  1845 
  Morelet 
  {Descript. 
  Moll. 
  Portugal, 
  p. 
  65, 
  pi. 
  vi, 
  f. 
  4) 
  

   described 
  and 
  figured 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  //. 
  ji^o^i^-n^mrt 
  ^ 
  a 
  somewhat 
  

   larger 
  form, 
  obscurely 
  bifasciate, 
  having 
  a 
  reflexed 
  lip 
  furnished 
  

   with 
  an 
  internal 
  white 
  riblet. 
  Ilecluz, 
  reviewing 
  Morekt's 
  work 
  

   tlie 
  same 
  year 
  in 
  the 
  Revue 
  Zoologique 
  (p. 
  311), 
  changed 
  the 
  

   name 
  to 
  occidentalis 
  on 
  the 
  ground 
  that 
  ponentina 
  was 
  an 
  improperly 
  

   formed 
  word. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  year, 
  Pfeiffer 
  founded 
  on 
  a 
  specimen 
  in 
  the 
  Cuming 
  

  

  ^ 
  Gray's 
  reference 
  in 
  synonymy 
  (Turton's 
  Manual, 
  new 
  ed., 
  1857, 
  p. 
  139) 
  to 
  

   '^ 
  Helix 
  subviridis, 
  Bellamy, 
  Brit. 
  Assoc, 
  1841, 
  South 
  Devon" 
  is 
  

   consequently 
  a 
  delightful 
  and 
  characteristic 
  Grayism. 
  

  

  ^ 
  From 
  the 
  Portuguese 
  jwuw^e 
  or 
  poe7ite, 
  meaning 
  " 
  west 
  ". 
  

  

  