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I fully admit that the differences pointed out by the author are 
fairly constant, and that examples are pretty easily separable from 
the typical form of cruenta. But admitting this does not prove that 
they ought to be held specifically distinct, and I venture to suggest 
that they only constitute a recognisable race or variety of an already 
known species. 
The chief object of this note, however, is to make complaint 
respecting the name which Mr. Ford has imposed upon his so-called 
species. 
When he published G'reegori as a varietal name, it was already 
five years previously preceded by Mr. Melvill’s varietal name coloba,* 
and therefore there is no question I think, which name should be 
employed if this variety be regarded |as a distinct species. Right 
and justice (and even courtesy) at once direct us in the present case. 
Mr. Ford is under the impression that Mr. Melvill was in a state 
of uncertainty whether the form in question was a variety of eruenta 
or caurica. I find no such impression conveyed by Mr. Melvill’s 
sentences which are criticised by Mr. Ford. Moreover, in the cata- 
logue of species (1. ¢., p. 245), Mr. Melvill ranges the var. coloba 
under cruenta and in addition gives a representation of the ventral 
side of the shell (PI. I, fig. 7). 
LAND MOLLUSCA OBSERVED IN THE GASPE REGION. 
A. W. HANHAM, QUEBEC. 
About the middle of May last I left Quebec for Gaspé Basin, by 
the way of Port Dalhousie, N. B. and the steamer “ Admiral.” 
It was my intention to spend a week or more in this district collect- 
ing shells and insects. 
Unfortunately I found the season very backward up there, the 
weather too was wet or cold during my stay ; owing to this but little 
collecting could be done, and I was more than disgusted having 
journeyed so far for so little purpose. 
The following specimens were taken or seen at Barachois, near 
Mal Baie; this village is at the inner end of a deep bay, and is 
distant from Gaspé Basin some 25 miles, and from Percé about 10 
miles. 
With a few exceptions the land shells collected were found living 
in the grass on a sandy hillside close to the beach. The open coun- 
1 Mem. and Proc. Manchester Lit. and Philos. Soc., 1887-8. Ser. 4. Vol. I, 
pp. 218 and 243. 
