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views of species are not so utterly at variance with our own im- 

 pressions. His guesses at truth (for they are no more, inasmuch 

 as he had rarely the advantage of seeing the types, but only 

 certain shells belonging to Mr. Barlee, which he considered such) 

 coincide oftentimes with our own conjectures; our rule, however, 

 has ever been to admit all published species as veritable ones, 

 unless we could discover direct proofs to the contrary. Mr. 

 Jeffreys' monograph of the group, served as a basis for our own, 

 because we knew of the extreme pains lavished by that most 

 truthful naturalist upon his subject, and we determined not to 

 repudiate any of his supposed species upon slight grounds of 

 dissent. We shall now enumerate the changes determined upon 

 by him ; but neither acquiesce in nor dissent from conclusions 

 at which we are sometimes a little astonished. 



Ch. formosa is ascribed as a variety to rufa proper. 



Ch. rufescens is considered a variety of scalaris. 



Ch. claihrata is regarded as a variety of indistincta. 



0. conspicua, and not improbably 0. striolata, are supposed to 

 be forms of acuta, to which the 0. turrila of Hanley (tinidcntata, 

 var. turrita of the present work) is also referred. The name 

 iurrita, be it remarked, was published long before acuta. 



0. duhia, alha, nitida, Etssoldes, EidimoideSy and f/lahrata ? 

 are all called C. pallida, and we are declared to have stated that 

 Montagu's type of Turho palUdus was not positively his own 

 specimen. 



0. trimcatida is said to be an adult nivosa. 



Eidimella affi,7iis is stated to be specifically identical with E. 

 acicula. 



In the descriptions of the animals of Odostomio', cited from 

 Mr. Clark, the " mentum" is often described as a muzzle. 



Mr. Clark holds with Mr. Jeffreys that these three groups con- 

 stitute but a single genus. We have considered them distinct, 

 but are ready to degrade them to the rank of suVj-divisions, 

 should future researches on their organization and distribution 

 both geographical and chronological, support the belief in their 

 unity as a natural alliance. Mr. Alder would keep Odostoniia 

 and Chenmitzia apart, but unite Eidimella with the latter. 



