OF CONCHOLOGT. 239 



Meleion, sp. D'Orbigny, Voy. Am. Mer. v, p. 478 ; not 



Moiitfort. 

 Anci/Ius, sp. Costa. 



Also, (to a greater or less extent, as yet undetermined) : 



ScutelUna, Gray, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 168. (Type S. crenulata, 



Brod. sp.) Gld. Otia Conch, p. 242. Woodw., Man. 



Rec. and Foss. Shells, p. 155. Cpr., Lect. Moll. p. 71. 



Scutella, Brod. (not Lam.), P. Z. S. 1834, p. 47. Miill., 



- Syn. Test. Viv. p. 161, 1836. [S. crenulata, Brod.) 



Sby., Conch. Man. Ed. ii, pp. 225, 254. 



Scutellma, H. and A. Ad., Gen. llec. Moll, i, p. 460. 



Chenu, Man. de Conchyl. i, p. 375 (part). 

 Crepidula. sp. C. B. Ad., Pan. Shells, p. 234, No, 352. 

 The Latin designation of Eschscholtz (accompanied by a defi- 

 nite description) has two years' precedence of the trivial French 

 name of Audouin and Milne Edwards, as mentioned by Cuvier. 

 The lUelierchts pour servir a Vhistoire naturelle du Littoral de la 

 France, Avas published in 1832. It consisted of two volumes, the 

 first being a general introduction, with some account of the 

 fisheries, and the second is devoted to the Arinelides. On page 

 144 of the first volume the authors state that they propose to 

 create a new genus f^r some little rosy Patellas found on the 

 coast of LaManche, on account of the peculiar cervical branchia, 

 and that this genus is constituted in a resume of their investiga- 

 tions offered to the Academy in November, 1829. No name of 

 genus or type is mentioned. 



Turning to the Annales des Sciences Naturelles (vol. xxi, p. 326) 

 for November, 1830 (not 1829, as stated above), we find a report 

 by Cuvier on three memoirs by the naturalists alluded to, in 

 which he mentions '"• leur genre Tectiire," but without giving any 

 Latin name to it, and referring with doubt to Patella parva (= 

 virginea Miill.) as the type. 



Gray, in 1847 (P. Z. S.), appears to have been the first to give 

 the name Tecture a Latin form ; at least a very careful search 

 has failed to reveal its publication anywhere previously. 



Under the circumstances it seems extraordinary that the name 

 should have been adopted by naturalists, and especially that we 

 should find such allusions to it as those of Mr. Jeff'reys in the 

 British Conchology, vol. iii, p. 244-5. No one, we think, will 

 hold that a Latin name should give place to a vernacular desig- 

 nation, even if the latter has priority, which it has not in the 

 present case. 



The animal of the typical species of Scutellina has not been 

 examined, but that of a closely allied species, S. ferruginea^ 



