THE NAUTILUS. 133 
We might translate it ‘family of a the-turreted,’ but the fact 
remains that the Latin authors would not have said anything 
like that. . . . Unless there exists some zoological reason for 
preferring a word that would mean ‘members of the family of 
the thing that is provided with towers’ to one meaning ‘mem- 
bers of the Tower family,’ I should much prefer the shorter 
and more Latin (or may I say less wn-Latin?) Turridae.”’ 
The facts therefore seem decisive that Turritidae is an impos- 
sible construction as a direct derivative of Turris, and that 
Turridae is correct and should be used. The spelling Turrinae 
for the typical subfamily logically follows by the same rea- 
soning. 
REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA, December 29, 1919. 
ON CERTAIN OF LINK’S NAMES IN THE MITRIDAE. 
BY J. R. LE B. TOMLIN. 
The rarity of Link’s work entitled Beschreib. Nat. Samml. 
Univ. Rostock (1807) is doubtless the reason why his specific 
names are but little known. Coming as it does before Lamarck 
or Dillwyn began to make their extensive contributions to no- 
menclature, it will, I believe, eventually be found to have an- 
ticipated these two authors in many cases. Link in the above 
work lists 20 Mitras, of which the following are noteworthy: 
Pt. iii, p. 127. Voluta stictica Link; V. papalis B. Gmel., 
3459; Mart. iv, 147, 1356. 
It is curious that this shell was not differentiated by any 
18th century author. Most of them considered it a var. of 
papalis ; Bolten confused it with cardinalis. The synonymy is: 
1807. V. stictica Link. 
1811 (early in). Mitra abbotis Perry. 
July, 1811. Mitra pontificalis Lamarck. 
p. 127. Voluta digitalis Link; V. pertusa J. Gmel. 3458; 
Chem. x, 151, 1482, 1433. 
This specific is generally ascribed to Dillwyn. Synonymy as 
follows: 
