522 Mr. R. B. Newton on the 



Ifab. India, Belgaum (H. E. Andrewes, Esq.). 



This species is closely allied to the preceding, but is black 

 and differently sculptured and with more convex interstices 

 to the elytra. The head has a small projecting lobe in the 

 middle of the front margin, with a slight sinuosity in the 

 margin on each side of its base. The thorax is rather 

 strongly punctured, the punctures separated from each other 

 by about half the diameter of a puncture. The elytra have 

 the strise more impressed than in the foregoing species, the 

 punctures encroaching considerably on the interstices ; the 

 interstices very convex, almost impunctate. 



The male has on the middle of the head a very short 

 transverse ridge, about twice as broad as high, the angles of 

 which are slightly swollen ; behind this there is a very slight 

 scarcely raised tubercle. 



The female (or undeveloped male ?) has the middle of the 

 head slightly convex, and posteriorly there is a very slight 

 tubercle. 



[To be continued.] 



LXI. — Reply to the Rev. Canon Norman's Views respecting 

 the proposed rejection of Cyclostoma, with Remarks on 

 ]So. 10 Rule of the " Stricklandian Code." By R. Bullen 

 Newton, F.G.S., British Museum (Natural History). 



The abandonment of a familiar name like Cyclostoma, pro- 

 posed by me in last April's number of the ' Annals,' is a 

 matter for considerable regret, though I fear many others 

 equally well known must soon share the same fate and be 

 relegated to the regions of synonymy if we would attain to 

 a proper degree of accuracy in our conchological nomen- 

 clature. 



Certain objections have been raised in the May number of 

 the ' Annals ' to my proposals on this subject by the Rev. 

 Canon Norman which, on being analyzed, betray an amount 

 of prejudice that, emanating from so distinguished an 

 observer, is indeed to be deplored. He charges me with 

 having " misapprehended the facts, and that no need exists 

 for changing the names Cyclostoma and Pomatias as now in 

 use." To defend my position it will be necessary to reca- 

 pitulate some of the details connected with the genera and 

 types involved, and for this purpose I shall place them in 

 chronological order, as follows : — ■ 



