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18(37—84. Ri>>soa citKjillus, Jeffreys, Bril,. Coiicli., vol. iv, p. 48, 18f)7 ; vol. v, ]>. '2()S, pi. Ixviii, ivj;. 9 



1869 ; Proc. Zool. See. London, p. 127, 1884. 

 1878. liiKsoa ciiKjilJitx, Reeve. Conch. Icon., vol. xx, pi. ii, lii.;'. 15. 



1884. Ciiitjiila {Cliiijllla) lri/(ixrl(ifa, Moiiterosaio, Noni. Gen. e Spec. Conch. Medit., p. 67. 

 1884. Uis.^oa (Ciii(ji(l«) cimjilliix, Buccpioy, Dautzenljero' et Dollfus, Moll. mar. Ronss., vol. i, p. 305. 

 1890. /I'/.ssort {Cinijnia) ciiKjiUu^, Canis, Prod. Faun. Medit., vol. ii, p. 836. 

 1892. Ciiigula vittafu, Loeard, Coq. mar. Cotes de France, }>. 175. 

 1893—98. Kisson ciiujiUas, A. Bell, Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. [3], vol. ii, p. 630, 1893 ; Trans. Roy. 



Geol. Soc. Coruwall, vol. xii, p. 153, 1898. 

 1901. Ciiigula trifasciata, Couch. Soc. List, Jonrn. of Conch., vol. x, p. 18, no. 354. 

 1913. Misaon (Ciiignld) ciiujilluft, Daulzenberg et Durouchoux, Feuille des Jeunes Natur., vol. xliv, 

 p. 31, pi. ii, fig. 12. 



Sprcific Gh((ni('fers. — Shell small, oblong, conical, rather solid ; whorls 6 — 7, 

 flattened, the last slightly angulate ; ornamented bj spiral ridges, distinct beloAV 

 the peripheiy, obsolete or nearly so al)ove it, crossed by numerous fine and incon- 

 spicuous lines of growth ; suture slightly channelled ; spire elongate, regularly 

 tapering ; mouth ovate, angulate al)ove ; outer lip not thickened or varicose ; inner 

 lip joined to the latter, forming a narroAv glaze on the pillar. 



Dimensums. — L. 4< — o mm. B. 2 — 2'5 mm. 



Distribiifion. — Recent : British shores, Ijetween tide-marks, generally diffused. 

 Norway from Bergen southwards, coasts of France, Spain and Italy. Mediter- 

 ranean, ^gean. 



Fossil : St. Erth. Pleistocene : Dalmuir, Largo Bay. Estiiarine 

 clays, Larne. Holocene : Portrush. 



ItemarlcK. — There seems no doubt but that the present species is identical with 

 the Turbo Irifusciafas of Adams and the T. rittafii.s of Donovan, both of those names 

 being slightly older than the T. cuigillus of Montagu. This was known in 1867 to 

 Jeffreys, who, dealing with the matter, remarked {op. cif., p. 49) : " Names in general 

 use should be preferred to those that are obsolete . . . while the imperious 

 demand of public convenience is ringing in our ears." For reasons I have before 

 urged (Vol. I, j)p. 370, S76), I again submit that when a name has been used for 

 a century, almost without protest, it should be allowed to stand ; moreover, the time 

 of the overworked curators of our museums is too valuable to be employed in the 

 unasked-for relabelling of hundreds of specimens. In many cases probably this 

 would never be even attempted. 



G. cliKjilliis is a widely diffused and recent species, but so far as I know it has 

 only been reported as a Pliocene fossil from St. Erth. 



Oenus ONOBA, H. and A. Adams, 1854 

 Onoba striata (J. Adams). Plate LI, fig. 42. 



1795. Turbo striaius, J. Adams, Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. iii, p. QQ, pi. xiii, figs. 25, 26. 

 1803. Turbo striafus, Montagu, Test. Brit., pt. ii, p. 312. 



