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wall (Da Costa and others); estuary of the Dee (Colling- 

 wood) ; Isle of Man, 25 f. (Forbes) ; Scarborough 

 (Bean); Anglesea (M'Andrew) ; Bantry Bay, sometimes 

 in the gizzard of Scaphander lignarius (Humphreys) ; 

 dredged off Cork (M f Andrew) ; Youghal and Dublin 

 (Ba\l,fide Thompson); Dundrum, co. Down (Thompson); 

 Orkneys, 12 f., and Shetland, 5-90 f. (Forbes) . I sus- 

 pect that all the more northern localities should be re- 

 ferred to E. bilineata, instead of to the present species. 

 This is not the E. subulata of Searles Wood (a Crag 

 shell), nor that of Nyst ; and I doubt the identification 

 with it of the species described and figured under the 

 same name by Homes from the Miocene formation of 

 Vienna. Our species occurs on all the coasts of France, 

 Spain, Portugal, Italy, Dalmatia, Greece, and North 

 Africa, from 2 to 140 f. ; and M' Andrew has taken it 

 near Madeira in 18-24 f. The Norwegian localities 

 given by Loven and Danielssen for this species probably 

 belong to E. bilineata. 



It is the Strombiformis glaber of Da Costa. I do not 

 know why all modern British conchologists have repu- 

 diated that specific name. Donovan, with more inge- 

 nuity than ingenuousness, misquoted his predecessor, 

 and endeavoured to show that the latter had contravened 

 the Linnean rule by making the specific name a sentence 

 instead of a single word. But such was not the case ; 

 and Da Costa's description is quite as appropriate and 

 complete as that of Donovan. However, since the older 

 name has never been adopted, I will not revive it. Pay- 

 raudeau called it Melania Cambessedesii, G. B. Sowerby 

 E. lineata, Forbes Melania Donovani, Renieri Turbo fas- 

 ciatus, Miihlfeld (according to Philippi) Helix flavocincta, 

 and Leach Balds testacea. E. subulata of Risso and 

 Delle Chiaje differ from this and from each other. 



