384 Prof. E. Suess on the Recent Terebratulse, 



2. " Again/^ says Mr. lleeve, "Prof. Suess gives Terebratella 

 as one of the types of the South African province of geographical 

 distribution ; but this conclusion is drawn from a statement 

 that a shell in the British Museum, named by Sowerby T. aU 

 goensis, from Algoa Bay, is a Terebratella, Upon examining this 

 shell, I find it to be a bleached fragmentary odd valve of the South 

 African Kraussia rubra." If Mr. Reeve will re-peruse my paper, 

 he will find the following passage (p. 205) : " T. algoensis, Sow. 

 sp. (ranged among Terebratella by Mr. Davidson in Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. 1852, p. 368), is only known by one single greater valve ; 

 the generic position is therefore rather doubtful.'' 



3. " Prof. Suess gives Kraussia as one of the types of the 

 Corean waters, on the authority of Mr. Davidson, adding that 

 the original habitat given by Mr. Adams and myself, in the 

 *Mollusca of the Voyage of the Samarang,' for T, capensis (now 

 Kraussia Deshayesii), is probably erroneous. The Cape of Good 

 Hope is especially the home of the Kraussia ; the only species 

 out of that locality is an abnormal one, K. Lamarckiana, a native 

 of South Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Davidson's mistake 

 in giving Corea as the habitat of Kraussia Deshayesii arose from 

 a displacement of tickets in Mr. Cuming's cabinet." I have 

 remarked (p. 197), in speaking of Terebratulina abyssicola, " I 

 was surprised to see that this species was said to have been 

 dredged together with T. capensis; now T. capensis, Ad. & 

 Reeve, is not Kr. capensis of other authors, but Kr. Deshayesii, 

 Dav., which is cited from Corea. Some confusion may exist 

 here, &c." I was, indeed, obUged to indicate some doubt as to 

 the statements made on the habitat of these two species in the 

 'Voyage of the Samarang;' and Mr. Reeve himself says now, 

 " One important error needs to be corrected. In the original 

 description of T. abyssicola in * Moll. Voy. Sam.,' the habitat 

 of Kr. Deshayesii was accidentally repeated ;" and in speaking 

 o{ Kr. Deshayesii, he states again that the labels were confounded. 

 You see that my doubts with reference to Messrs. Adams and 

 Reeve's statements were justified ; but I had not the least right 

 to doubt the simple statement given by Mr. Davidson, and I 

 was indeed far from believing that here likewise a fault had 

 occurred. 



4. In speaking of Terebratella spitzbergensis, Mr. Reeve ob- 

 serves, " Prof. Suess remarks that a figure of a species of Mid- 

 dendorf, which is unknown to me {T. frontalis), is like it. Can 

 they be one and the same species ? But Prof. Suess goes on to 

 ask, is T. frontalis the same as T. transversa'^ — which has no re- 

 lation whatever, as a comparison of our figures of that species in 

 ' Conch. Icon.' with T. spitzbergensis will show." This docs 

 not, however, convey my meaning ; and I will therefore translate 



