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He thus inferred tliat Miiller had included two forms under his 

 acuta, whilst he overlooked the fact that Bruguiere must, then, 

 equally have done the same, and inclined to the opinion that barhara 

 was distinct. 



This disposition of the two forms now in question was followed 

 by all the more noted French conchologists, such as Lamarck, 

 Dupuy, and Moquin-Tandon. 



Risso, however, in 1826 (Hist. nat. Europ. nierid., iv, p. 77) raised 

 Ferussac's Cochlicella to the rank of genus, adopted that author's 

 ventrosa, but proposed the new name of meridionalis for Miiller's 

 acuta. Bourguignat, with his characteristic love of reviving dubious 

 names, in 1864 (Malac. Algerie, i, p. 286), and again in 1868 (Hist. 

 Malac. Tunis, p. 25), sought to identify Draparnaud's ventricosa 

 with Linne's harhara. 



On the other hand, in 1883, Fagot, in an entirely superficial paper 

 (Glanages Malac, iii, pp. 29-32), in which he completely ignored 

 the figures cited by the original authors, reverted to Ferussac's 

 abandoned synonymy of the " Essai " and adopted outright Helix 

 harhara, Linn., for the Bulimus acutus, Drap., and took Helix acuta, 

 MiilL, for the Bulimus ventricosus, Drap.^ 



This reading was subsequently followed by Westerlund in 1889 

 (Fauna Palaarct. Region, ii, p. 366), by Connolly in 1912 (Ann. S. 

 African Mus., xi, p. 157), by Caziot (Feuille Jeunes Nat., xliii, p. 160), 

 and Germain in 1913 (Moll. France, pp. 118-119), whilst Pilsbry 

 in 1895 (Man. Conch., ser. ii, vol. ix, p. 264) made acuta, MiilL, 

 a synonym of harhara, Linn., and accepted H. ventricosa, Drap., 

 with " ventrosa, auct.", and hulimoides, Moq., as synonyms. 



Draparnaud was, however, forestalled in the use of the name 

 Bulimus ventricosus by Bruguiere in 1792 (Ency. Method., Vers, i, 

 p. 363), so that Ferussac's ventrosa displaces it for the French shell, 

 since Moquin-Tandon's objection to the name (Hist. Moll. France, 

 ii, pp. 279-80) does not seem valid in the light of present rulings, 

 and his substituted name of hulimoides consequently falls into 

 synonymy. 



Helix subrueescens, Miller, vice Helix fusca, Montagu. 

 Unfortunately another well-known name in British non-marine 

 Mollusca has to be changed. Montagu's appellation of Helix fusca 

 (Test. Brit., 1803, p. 424) was anticipated by Poiret (Coq. Aisne, 

 1801, p. 69), who applied it to what proves to be a colour variation 

 of Helix nemoralis, Linn. Gray's Helix (Zenohia) corrugata (Med. 

 Repos., XV, 1821, p. 239) being a nomen nudum, the next name on the 

 list, Helix suhrufescens of Miller (Ann. Phil., N.s., ii, p. 43), has to be 



1 Webb & Berthelot in 1833 (Ann. Sci. Nat., xxviii, p. 317) had adopted 

 Helix acuta, Mull., with Bulimus ventricosus, Drap., as synonym ; but this 

 was corrected by Orbigny in the niolluscan portion of the "Hist. Nat. lies 

 Canaries ", 1839, p, 67, to Bulimus ventricosus, Drap. 



