32 i Miscellaneous. 



This very beautiful species is very closely allied to a shell in Mr. 

 Cuming's collection, which has been attributed by ^Ii'. Sowerby, in 

 his ' Concholo.Si:icrd Illustrations/ to M. tricjonulus, Lamarck. It 

 is also as closely allied to a shell in the collection of the King of 

 Denmark, wliich ^yas figured for that species by myself in the ' Cou- 

 chologia Iconica.' From both, however, it is sufficiently distinct to 

 establish its claim to rank as a new species. 



6. Cyclostoma TUBULUM. Crjcl. testaimperforata, turbinata ; 

 spira elecativscula ; anfractibits I'otundafis, Icevibus ; apertyra 

 circitha-i ; lubro eleganter expanso ; lutescente-alba, nigricanti- 

 fusco multifasciata. 



Lat. 1| poll. 



Hab. ? 



This very elegant species partakes of the characters of C. Belairi 

 and Boivini, but is quite distinct from either of those species. There 

 is no umbilicus and very little umbilical callosity. The bands are 

 peculiar in extending over the expanded lip to the extreme edge. 



7. Cyclostoma Eugeni.c Cyd. testa subprofunde tnnbiUcata, 

 subdepresso-orbiculari ; spira brevi ; anfractibvs ad sutiiram 

 leviter impressis, deinde convexis, spiraliter dense elevato- 

 striatis, in medio acute tenuicarinatis ; apertura circulari, 

 labro {in hoc specimine) sirnplici ; fulvescente-spadicea, infra 

 cast aneo plus minus tenue vittata. 



Lat. 1 poll. 



Hab. Mauritius (found in the heights of Flacq, at the roots of a 

 Bois-de-Natte tree). 



ISIost nearly allied to C. jilosvm, but of lighter texture and warmer 

 colour. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



British Edriophthalma. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 



Plymouth, Dec. 16, 1857. 

 Gentlemen, — Further opportunities and more extended investi- 

 gations compel me to make the following corrections in the Synopsis 

 of the British Edriophthalma recently pubUshed m the Annals : — 



1. Instead of adopting Dana's arrangement of the genus Orchestia, 

 and making Talitrus a subgenus, it will be more in accordance with 

 our present knowledge to divide Talitrus itself into two genera, as 

 has been done by Nicolet and Stimpson, and thus adopt the genus 

 Orchestoidea of the former (Gay's 'Chili'), which is synonymous 

 ■with Megalorchestia of the latter (Proc. Nat. Hist. Society Boston, 

 * Crust. &c. Pacific Shores of North America'). 



