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etna, In fact we must protest against some of the hina used 
by Prof, Holmes, although, as a very full synonymy is given, n 
easily select. more appropriate names. It is somewhat starving: for j in- 
stanee, to see our common sea- -urchin, Zchinocidaris punctulatus, figured 
and described as “Anaperus carolinus Trosch.” Now the Anaperus caro- 
nus is a “ biche-le-mar,”—the Holothuria briareus of Le Sueur—the 
Soft body of which is not exac tly adapted for preservation in post- plioeene 
sands, =“ Schizaster atr ropos” is S. lachesis Grd. “Guia punctata” 
should be Persephona p. We have the Ostrea fundata of Say (MSS.) 
tow for the first time sr and figured; it is a good species and 
Must be credited to Prof. H “Nucula acuta” is a Leda, “Leda 
limatula” is a Yoldia. pacha Mortoni” is a Liocardium. “Lucina 
Kia ahensis n, sp.” is not a Lucina ; it looks more like Diplodonta or a 
Venerid, “ Dosinia concentriea” is D. discus Reeve. Pe aa grus n. ve 
Probably a worn valve of Solenomya velum. navel mino ans 
Pears to be # young shell, perhaps Columbella avara or similis, “Fusus 
snus n. sp.” is a tip of Columbella translirata Rav. “F. filiformis n. sp.” 
the tip of a Mangelia common on wk coast. “Puras bullata (!) n. sp.” 
Wa young ee probably WV. trivitteta. “FF, rudis n. sp.” is a tip of 
Mangetia 7 rubella K.andS. A little tipieal canta. is oe necessary 
to an ony Cad of fossil shells. “Volva acieularis” i ntermedia 
Sow. f. Holmes quotes Gould for Watica pusilla, but Gould's shell 
waite different from Say’s, oud is the Lunatia grenlandi Beck. 
Adeorbis nautiliformis n. sp.” is Cochliolepis parasitica Stm., white: the 
shell figured as Cochliolepis i is a ‘Vitrin 
It is important to make these as Abou on as they seriously affect the 
Pete of — species found in our Post-pliocene deposits. The 
“owing species described as new seem to be really so, as far as we can 
from the figures, 
Montacuta Bowmani, Turbonilla lineata, 
Mulinia Milesii, ) ms: 
esma con caroliniana, 
*Abra ancul centrieg, acicula, 
Wohitomics wandoetiai nsis, subcoronata, 
Turbonilla cancellata,  *Obeliscus crenulatus, 
quinquestriata, Architectonica gemma. 
