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bles the species of Huchelus, and especially the subgenus Perrinia, 
which I also dredged from deep water in the same locality. I 
have named the genus from Mino-Sima, the little island near 
Niphon, in the vicinity of which favourable circumstances en- 
abled me to glean, by deep-water dredging, much fragmentary 
knowledge of the malacology of the Japanese archipelago. 
Minolta punctata, A. Adams. 
M. testa helicoidea, macromphala, fulva, rufo-punctata ; anfractibus 
63, convexis, cingulis transversis granulosis, majoribus cum mi- 
noribus alternantibus, rufo-punctatis ornatis, interstitiis lamellis 
tenuibus obliquis pulcherrime clathratis; suturis canaliculatis ; 
umbilico perspectivo, cingulis granulosis concentricis instructo, 
interstitiis concinne clathratis. 
This is another modification of the hollow spiral cone of the 
Trochoid family; the whorls are somewhat loosely rolled on 
themselves, which causes the sutures to be very deep, and the 
last whorl at the peritreme to be almost disunited from the 
penultimate whorl. The red-brown spots on the beaded ribs, 
and the exquisite clathrate sculpture of the surface, render 
this one of the prettiest shells in the great family of Trochoid 
Scutibranchs. In texture it resembles Enida Japonica and 
Turcica monilifera, and, judging from the shell, it appears to be 
more closely associated with the Zizyphinus group than with 
. Gibbula or Margarita. 
Wei-hae-Wei, Shan-Tung, China, 
April 15, 1860. 
XLIII.—On the Nomenclature of the Foraminifera. 
By W. K. Parker, M. Mier. Soc., and T. R. Jonzs, F.G.S. 
[Continued from p. 40.] 
Part V. The Foraminifera enumerated by Denys de Montfort. 
Denys pE Montrort, being desirous to do justice as far as 
possible to the elucidation of the “ Microscopic Shells” in his 
systematic and illustrated work on Conchology*, introduced the 
and descriptions of several Foraminifera into his book, 
stating that he was far from pretending to have given all their 
genera, but that he aimed at making some at least of their sin- 
gular forms better known to naturalists (Discours préliminaire, 
p- xxvii). To this end he figured some specimens apparently 
* <Conchyliologie Systématique, et Classification Méthodique des Co- 
quilles ; offrant leurs figures, leur arrangement générique, leurs descrip- 
tions caractéristiques, leurs noms; ainsi que leur synonymie en plusieurs 
langues,’ 2 vols. 8vo, Paris, 1808-1810. 
