348 Mr. E. A. Smitli on Species o/BullidEe. 



Ad. Thes. Conch, ii. p. 583, pi. 124. f. 104, of doubtful locality ; 

 and although considerably like zelandice^ they are nevertheless 

 a little narrower, with the columella not so arcuate, and " e 

 rufescente alba, lineolis trans versis exilissimis sculpta " {Phi- 

 lijpjpi)^ thus differing from zelandue^ which is irregularly 

 scratched across, and of a white colour under a light -brown 

 epidermis. 



Sowerby (?. c. sp. 13) has given a good figure of a full-sized 

 zelandicB under the name of ohesa^ Sow., not being aware that 

 it had already been described by Dr. Gray. 



Haminea constricta^ A. Ad. MS.; Sowerby, I. c. sp. 16. 



This is not a manuscript name, it being published in the 

 Thes. Conch, ii. p. 581, pi. 124. f. 95. 



Haminea ferruginea^ Cheran.; Sowerby, ?• c. sp. 30. 



Sowerby, in his monograph of the genus Atys (Conch. Ic. 

 xvii. sp. 2) figures a species of this genus which he calls " A. 

 ferruginosa^ Chemnitz, Hist. Conch, i. tab. 22. f. 209, 210." 

 See previous remarks on this. 



Again, he cites the same two figures as representing a spe- 

 cies of another genus, Haminea ferriiginea, Chemn., thus 

 referring two distinct genera to the same figure, which is 

 absurd, and only shows the hurry in which the monograph in 

 question appears to have been prepared, and also the little 

 amount of care bestowed upon it. 



The shell figured /. c. f. 30 is Hfusca^ A. Ad., Thes. Conch, 

 ii. p. 581, pi. 124. f. 94, from Cagayan, Island of Mindanao, 

 Philippines. 



Haminea angustata^ Gould, MS. ; Sowerby, I. c. sp. 32. 



This should be angusta, Gould, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 

 vii. p. 139. 



Hah, " Sim onda, Western States of North America " [Sow.). 

 This should be Simoda, Niphon, Japan. 



This is another instance of the general want of care which 

 characterizes many of the monographs published in this work. 



The shell Mr. Sowerby took his description and figure from 

 is in the Curaingian collection, and is placed on a tablet with 

 the name and locality thus written : — " Haminea angusta, 

 Gld. Simoda, W. St." The W. St. signifies William Stimp- 

 son, the collector of the specimens, and not Western States of 

 North America. It is necessary to give this explanation, lest 

 it might be thouglit that the error really occurred in the Mu- 

 seum collection. 



