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Reeve in his Conch. Syst., pi. cclxviii., fig. 3, p. 234, has figured 

 anotlier very distinct shell as Buc. elegans, Reeve, and again in 

 his Conch. Icon., vol. 8, pi. ii., sp. 10, another shell, Nassa elegans^ 

 quoting the shell in Kien., with -which it has no affinity. With 

 the exception of the first the whole of these names are obsolete 

 in this- genus, and the N. elegans^ Reeve, has, I think, by almost 

 universal consent descended to its next describer, Gould, under 

 the name of Nassa fossata, Gould. In the work by H. and A, 

 Adams, 'Recent Shells,' at p. 121, we have the subgenus Taphon, 

 H. and A, Ad., and the erroneous name of T. elegans, Reeve, 

 still continued, but the synonymic JV. fossata, Gould, appears under 

 another subgeneric head, at p. 112, as Triiia fossata, Gould. 

 After all this we find the N. elegans. Reeve, figured in the Jour, 

 de Conch, for 1868, pi. vi., fig. 3, and described at p. 445, 1867, 

 as a new species N. Moreleti, Crosse. 



January, 18'jg. 



NOTE ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 

 OF CREPIDULA ACULEATA, Gmelin. 



- By Wm. G. MAZYCK. 



In the Jou7iial for May, 1878, Mr. Garrett records the 

 occurrence of this species in the Marquesas Islands, and mentions 

 that it has also been found in the Sandwich Islands, New Zealand, 

 Australia, India, Mauritius, Japan, West Indies, Panama and 

 California. It may be interesting to students to know that it 

 also occurs on coast of South Carolina. I have several specimens 

 which I have myself collected on Sullivan's and Long Island 

 beaches. I have not succeeded in obtaining living examples, but 

 do not doubt that they could be readily collected with the aid of 

 a dredge. 



February, 18'jg. 



