On the Perforation of the Shell of Spirifer cuspidatus. 29 



Trans, xiii. 58, tab. 6. fig. 2. — In India orientali : v. s. in 

 herb. Sac. Linn., Wall. Cat. 4957 b, c, d, e, f ; in herb, variis 

 a multis locis. 



3. Holopeira auriculata, nob. — In India orientali : v. s. in herb. 

 Lemann. (ex hort. bot. Calc. cult.). 



4. torrida, nob. — In Africa tropicali : v. s. in herb. Hook., 



Africa occidentali (Cunon) ; Shire, Zambesi (Kirk). 



5. lonchophylla, nob. ; — Cocculus Ferrandianus, Seem, {non 



Gaud.) Fl. Fiji. — In insulis Sandwich : v. s. in herb. Hook. 

 Hue-hue (Hildebrand), Ohahu (Seemann, 2281). 



6. , fecunda, nob.; — Cocculus hexagynus. Ham. {non 



Roxb.) . — Forsan ex India orientali : v. s. in hort. Kew. 

 cult. 



7. laurifolia, nob. ; — Menispermum laurifolium, Roxb. Fl. 



Ind. iii. 815; — Cocculus laurifolius, DC. Syst. i. 530, 

 Prodr. i. 100; Deless. Icon. i. t. 97; Coleb. Linn. Trans. 

 xiii. 65 ; Hook. §• Th. FL Ind. i. 191. — In India orientali : 

 V. s. in herb. Soc. Linn., Wall. Cat. 4965 a, b, c. 



8. australis, nob. ; — Menispermum Australe, Zucc. MS. — 



In Japonia et Java : v. s. in herb. Lindl.^ Japonia (Siebold, 

 anno 1840), in hort. Monach. cult, sub nom. Zuccarinio 

 imposito {Menispermum Australe); in herb. DeCand., Java, 

 S (Zollinger, 1640), ? (Zollinger, 3184) ; in herb. Hook., 

 Japonia (De Vriese), Java (Lobb), ibid. (Horsfield, 245). 



9. fusiformis, nob. — In Java : v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit.. 



(Horsfield). 



[To be continued.] 



VI. — On the Perforate Structure of the Shell of Spirifer cuspi- 

 datus. By Wm. B. Carpenter, M.D., F.ll.S. 



To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, 



I read with much surprise in your Number for August last 

 (p. 144) the statement, quoted from ' Silliman's American 

 Journal ' for May, to the effect that Mr. Meek had ascertained 

 the shell of Spirifer cuspidatus, not only in American specimens 

 referred to this species, but in an Irish specimen received by 

 him from Mr. Davidson, to be "clearly punctate, contrary to 

 the decision of Dr. Carpenter.^' 



My determination of the imperforate character of the shell 

 of that species was made, some twenty-five years ago, upon 

 specimens obtained from St. Vincent's Rocks, near Bristol 

 (where I was then residing), and authenticated by Mr. S. Stutch- 

 bury. In my Report to the British Association (1844, § 44), 



