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from Odontostoma or Odontostonms, and hence not liable to rejection on the 

 ground of previous ineffective use. Cossmann (Catal. 111. Coq. Fos. Eoc. 

 Paris, iii. p. 104, 1888) refers this name of Jeffreys to 1837, and says that 

 Jeffreys speaks of it as intentionally a diminutive. I have not found any 

 reference to it earlier than the one above cited, where Jeffreys indulges in no 

 remarks whatever, and I should be glad of more light on this point. In his 

 resume in the British Conchology (iv. p. 108) on the history of the name 

 Odostomia, Jeffreys makes no reference to his own name, Odontostoniia, and 

 evidently knows nothing of the early edition or publication of the Edinburgh 

 Encyclopedia. The exact facts, however, had been noted and only too 

 briefly referred to by Searles Wood in the first part of his Crag MoUusca 

 (p. 85, 1848), where he alludes to the Edinburgh Encyclopedia as publish- 

 ed in 1 8 17, an error due to the insertion of a common title-page in earlier 

 volumes, or possibly to citing a second edition, since we know that twelve 

 volumes of the first edition had been issued by 1817, and the article by Flem- 

 ing was in volume vii. 



A name, Z?<3«^(7i'^'o;««, has been attributed to Klein, who was not a binomial 

 writer and is not entitled to be cited in systematic nomenclature. Of the 

 other names of this general formation, Odontostoimis Beck dates from 1837, 

 and the same word was used for a fish in 1838 by Cocco. Odontostoma 

 Orbigny (not Odontostomia, as Agassiz has it in Scudder's Nomenclator) was 

 published in 1842 (and not 1839 as per Agassiz). The others are emenda- 

 tions by Agassiz which are all of later date and not recognized by modern 

 rules of nomenclature. 



While admitting that the last word has not been said on the subject, 

 owing to the fact that part of the literature is inaccessible to him, the writer 

 concludes that Odostovna¥\em\ng[\?,\^) is a synonym oi Pupa, Clatisilia,&tc., 

 and that the name in that form is ruled out by this ineffective use of it. There 

 is no evidence accessible in regard to Odontostoma Turton. The next name 

 in order appears to be Odontostomia Jeffreys, which for present purposes may 

 be adopted subject to revision on receipt of further information. 



Odontostomia conoidea Brocchi. 

 Turbo conoideus Brocchi, Conch. Foss. Subapp. ii. p. 659, pi. xvi. fig. 2, 1814. 

 Odostomia conoidea Jeffreys, Brit. Conch, iv. p. 127, v. p. 211, pi. Lxxiii. fig. 6, 1869. 

 Odostomia acutidens Dall, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 331, 1883. 



Fossil in the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene of Europe and living on 

 the coasts of Europe and the Mediterranean from Hammerfest to Gibraltar 

 and the Grecian Archipelago, according to Jeffreys; in America fossil in the 

 older Miocene marls of Shiloh, New Jersey, the newer Miocene at Mrs. 

 Guion's, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, tlie Pliocene of the Caloosahatchie 

 (var. acutidens Dall) and the Post-Pliocene of North Creek, Little Sarasota 

 Bay, Florida ; living from Cape Hatteras to Florida and on the Gulf coasts, 

 Jewett, Hemphill, etc. 



