Miscellaneous. 161 
Voluta Smithi, new Name to replace that of V. uniplicata ( pre- 
occupied). By G. B. Sowrrsy, F.L.S. 
Since the publication of the description of this remarkable 
Japanese species in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. v. 
(May 1900), Mr. Edgar A. Smith has kindly pointed out to me 
that the name I applied to it— Voluta uniplicata—had been used as 
far back as 1850 by a member of my family, James de Carl Sowerby, 
for a fossil species from the Middle Kocene of Bracklesham Bay. It 
is therefore necessary to alter the name of the last published, which 
I now propose to call V. Smithi, in honour of the eminent concho- 
logist who has so opportunely called my attention to the error, 
caused by inadvertance, and enabled me to rectify it. 
Dates of Publication of the Zoological and Botanical portions of some 
French Voyages—Part Il. Ferret and Galinier’s *‘ Voyage en 
Abyssinie’ ; Lefebure’s ‘Voyage en Abyssinie’; ‘ Exploration scien- 
tifique de V Algérie’ ; Castelnaws ‘ Amérique du Sud’; Dumont 
@Urville’s * Voyage de UV Astrolabe’ ; Laplace's * Voyage sur la 
Favorite’; Jacquemont’s ‘Voyage dans Inde’; Tréhouart’s 
‘Commission scientifique d'Islande’ ; Cailliaud, ‘Voyage a Méroé’ 5 
‘ Expédition scientifique de Morée’; Fabre, ‘ Commission scien- 
tufique du Nord’; Du Petit-Thouars, ‘Voyage de la Venus’ ; and 
on the Dates of the ‘ Fuune Francaise. By C. Davizs SHERBORN, 
F.Z.8., and B. B. Woopwarp, F.L.S. &e. 
‘ Voyage en Abyssinie, dans les Provinces du Tigré, du Samen et de 
VAmhara.... par MM. Ferrer et Gatinter.’ [1839-43.] 
Vol. III. Descript. géologique &e. 
Catal. des Roches, &c. By Riviére. 
Plantes. By Raffeneau Delile. 
Mammiféres. By F. E. Guérin-Méneville. 
Oiseaux. By Guérin-M. & De La Fresnaie. 
Entomologie. By Reiche. 
The first portion of vol. iii. appeared in 1847; this we consider 
to be up to p. &4 (the geology); the plants, mammals, and part of 
the birds (up to p. 224) we consider to date from 1848; p. 227 
refers to 1847, pp. 229 and 231 refer to Lefebvre’s ‘ Voyage en 
Abyssinie,’ p. 110 (=1847), and p. 256 bears a date 1850: it is 
therefore reasonable to accept 1850 (not Hagen’s 1849) as the date 
of pp. 225-536. See also Wiegm. Arch. 1851, ii. 153. Guérin, in 
the ‘‘ Insectes ” of Lefebvre’s ‘ Voy. en Abyss.,’ says on p. 254 that 
Reiche’s specific names quoted in this (Guerin’s) work were still in 
MS. on 30 Aug. 1846. 
