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throughout their Check-hst and. inserted in their Code, 

 I introduce 



Mathewsena 



to replace my own Mathewsia and retain as type Ardea 

 ruhicunda Perry. 



A note by Prof. Brasil, and my reply, regarding this 

 name was printed in this Journal (Vol. I., pp. 122-3, 

 1912), and a quaint coincidence seems worth quoting. The 

 offending Antigona Schumacher was at that time con- 

 sidered a "useless" synonym; it has since, through 

 a series of comphcations, been reidved, and it has 

 fallen to my lot to show that it can be vahdly utiHsed 

 as the only available name for a genus of mollusks. It is 

 open to authors now to consider whether the amendment 

 to Antigone proposed by Gray should be used, and if 

 this were to be accepted the invahdity of Reichenbach's 

 introduction would be finally settled. 



