NOTES. 



On the name Lima elliptiea.— In 1863 Jeffreys described (Brit. Conch., 

 vol. ii, p. 81) a shell from the British Seas under this name. Unfortunately the 

 name had been used in August, 1861, by Whiteaves (Ann. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, vol. 

 viii, p. 146) for a fossil from the " CoralUan Oolites of Oxford." Under these 

 circumstances, as I am unable to trace any other name applicable to the recent 

 sliell, I propose to name it Lima giri/ni, nom. nov. — E. R. Sykes. 



Note on a Malformed Specimen of Ceratisolen legumen.— It maybe 

 interesting to state that a short time ago I received a specimen of the above 

 species exhibiting a curious state of development. Nothing is present in the 

 growth of the shell to determine the cause of it, though there is a small deflection 

 of the posterio- ventral ' end of the left valve but this appears to have arisen 

 subsequently through the imperfected growth of the mantle lobe. 



The foot is abnormally large. The mantle lobes bet«'een the pedal aperture 

 and the proximal parts of the siphon are exceedingly thin, and the pallial 

 muscular bands along this portion are nearly altogetlier wanting. The free 

 portions of both gills are only slightly developed and are very narrow. — H. H. 

 Bloomer. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



Pilsbry, Henry A. — Tryon's Manual of Gonchology, ser. ii, vol. xv (pt. 60), 

 pp. 209-323, pis. 56-65. Philadelphia : Academy of Natural Sciences. 



Continuing the account of the Urocoptidae, Dr. Pilsbry describes the following 

 new species and varieties : U. lavdleana v. trinidadensis (Trinidad) ; U. fraterna 

 (Western Cuba), like U. capillacea in shape and colour, but more coarsely striate, 

 and the axis bears two spiral lamellae ; U. hidalgoi v. brevicervix ; U. gonzalezi 

 (Western Cuba), similar to U. hidalgni, but more tapering, neck short, and only 

 one axial lamella ; U. joaquini (Western Cuba) ; U. discors v. lagunillensis (Western 

 Cuba) ; U. diaphana (Western Ckiba) ; U. haculmn (Cuba) ; U. ischna (Western 

 Cuba) ; U. rugeli v. euglypta ; U. bahamensis v. providentia (Nassau) ; Spiro- 

 stemma bdleviiensis, n.n. for 8. propinqua (Vend.), non 8. propinqua, Arango ; 

 and 8. ipswichensis, n.sp., both from Jamaica. 



In an Appendix the author gives a short account of the anatomy of Ants- 

 ospira townsendi, hitherto known by the shell only. The generative organs 

 resemble those of Eucalodium in the long vas deferens, the other characters 

 being common to both Eucalodium and Coeocentrum. The genus is somewhat 

 intermediate between these two genera. A. recticosta v. townsendi, Pils. and 

 Ckll. is described as new. 



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