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Trivia globosa, Sowerby.^ 



After having carefully compared the description, figure, and 

 specimens of this species with those of T. pilula^ Kiener,^ I fail to 

 see why Hidalgo has separated them. T. pilula has generally been 

 accepted as a synonym of 2\ glolosa, and I cannot see the slightest 

 ground for keeping them apart. With regard to geographical dis- 

 tribution, T. fflobosais supposed to be a West Indian form, though Gray 

 in the " Descriptive Catalogue " gave China as the locality of his type. 

 2\ pilula is reported from the Persian Gulf, Siam, Japan, Philippines. 

 ]S"ew Caledonia, Sandwich Islands, and New South Wales. Even if 

 globosa was incorrectly cited from China and is strictly a West Indian 

 shell (which I think very improbable), there is not the slightest 

 conchological reason for separation. 



Trivia Edgari, n.n. for T. grando, Gaskoin.^ 



Potiez * first employed the specific name grando to designate a fossil 

 species. His description, however, is so short and inadequate that it 

 is useless for the purpose of identification, and this being so, one 

 cannot unite with it the 1\ grando of Gaskoin as some writers have 

 suggested. Gaskoin's species must therefore be re-designated, and in 

 proposing the name of Trivia Edgari I have much pleasure in 

 associating with it Mr. E. A. Smith's christian name, the term Smithi 

 having already been used for a fossil form. 



Trivia multilirata, Sowerby. 



T. multilirata, Sow. : Thes. Conch., vol. iv, No. 178*, figs. 427, 428, 

 521, 522. 

 This species is considered by Hidalgo (pp. 424-5) a synonym of 

 T. Mediterranean Risso (Hist. JSTat. Eur. Merid., 1826, vol. iv, p. 239), 

 whilst Monterosato (Journ. de Conch., 1899, vol. xlvii, p. 401) holds 

 that T. Mediterranea — T. lathyrus, Blainville {= T. pulex, Gray). 

 Risso's description is applicable in certain respects to both T. multilirata 

 and T. lathyrus, Blainville (= T. pulex, Gray), the colour and numerous 

 costae agreeing best with T. multilirata, whereas " peritremate albido " 

 and the length (7 mm.) corresponds more nearly to T. lathyrus. Under 

 these circumstances, as it is doubtful what Mediterranea really was, 

 I think it would be advisable to adopt the multilirata, Sow., about 

 which there is no question. The synonymy of this species would 

 therefore be — 



T. multilirata, Sow. 



= 2\ creiricostata, Sow. : op. cit., p. 51. 

 = 2\ formosa. Reeve {non Gask.) : Conch. Icon., sp. 132. 

 = T. Mediterranea, Risso (?) : Hist. Nat. Eur. Merid., vol. iv, 

 p. 239. 

 The T. formosa, Gask. (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1835, p. 198), although it 



1 Conch. Illust., p. 12, No. 117, fig. 34. 

 ^ Coq. Yiv., p. 151, pi. liv, fig. 2. 

 3 Proc. Zool. Soc, 1848, p. 96. 

 ■* Galerie des Moll., 1838, vol. i, p. 481. 



