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J 'age 1 6 1. The species of Hyalimax have some 

 synonymy, which is omitted. Also //. maillardi is given 

 as from Mauritius, — should it not be Bourbon ? I have no 

 access to the original description, but have always been 

 under the impression that it came from the latter island. 

 I note, also, that I )r. Heynemann cites it as from Bourbon 

 only. 



Page 157. " Athoracqphus" and " Konophera* are 

 doubtless only misprints. 



Now I leave it to be imagined what sort of a criticism 

 Mr. Hedley might have written of " An Enumeration of the 

 Janellidic" if it had not so happened that he, and not I, was 

 its author. 



Athoracophorus. For reasons stated under Limacclla, 

 I am not now disposed to reject Janella on account of 

 preoccupation by a synonym. This was Mr. Hedley's 

 view, but singularly enough, just as I decide in its favour 

 I hear from him " I am now inclined to substitute 

 Athoracophorus for Janella? " J 

 608. J. mannorata. Messrs. Hedley and Suter place this as 

 a synonym of Hutton's marmorea. To me, they seemed 

 amply distinct, but there may be reasons unknown to any 

 but these authors, which make it necessary to unite them. 

 1 have only seen one example of marmorea and. none of 

 mannorata. 



610. J. verrucosa. For the present I give this the benefit of the 



doubt, but probably Messrs. Hedley and Suter correctly 

 refer it to papiUata, Hutton cites papillata from the 

 Auckland Islands. 



611. N. dubia. As above mentioned, Messrs. Hedley and Suter 



have referred this to Janella bitentaculata. The back of 

 the Janella presents a groove which is lacking in Neojanella, 

 and the specimens I have of J bitentaculata are much 

 smaller than Neojanella. Thus, Neojanella dubia 

 (in alcohol) is 53 mm. long, J. bitentaculata from 

 Wellington, N.Z., is 16 mm. long. (Spn. fr. Otago Univ. 

 Mus.) J. bitentaculata = antipodaruin, Gray, type specimen, 

 is 19 mm. long. In Gray's type of antipodarum (in Brit. 

 Mus.) the genital organ protrudes, leading one to suppose 

 that the slug is mature. If so, it cannot possibly be the 



-- It is to be hoped that Mr. Hedley and other authors will retain the name Janella. — 

 W.E.C. 



