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EEPOIIT ISGC 



Leucozonia cingulata. 



Mitra lens. 



Oliva poi-phyria, Melchersi, Cumingii, 

 subangiilata. 



Olivella tergina, gracilis, volutella (seve- 

 ral taken alive). 



Agaronia testacea. 



Purpura patula, biserialis, triangularia, 

 muricata, planospira J. 



Nitidella cribraria. 



Colambella fuscata, var. 



Conella cedo-nulli. 



Nassa liiteostoma, scabriusoula, coi'pTi- 



lenta. 

 Pyrula patula. 

 Fusus Dupetithouarsii. 

 Siphonalia pallida. 

 Strombina (? new, deep water, San 



Jose). 

 Pisania sanguinolenta, insiguis. 

 Murex plicatus, recurvirostris. 

 Pliyllouotus nigritus, brassica, princeps, 



bicolor. 

 Muricidea dubia. 



Lieut. Green having been obliged to pack up his collection and leave home 



on professional duty, I was not able to make any critical examination of it, 



Capt. Dupont also, of Delaware, was one of the " Mexican-war naturalists," 



and made a large collection of La Paz shells during his campaign ; but I had 



no opportunity of seeing them. 



Dr. Gould notes the following corrections in Lieut. Green's list, pp. 231- 



234:— 



Semele flavicans should he Jiavescens. | Donax ahruptus should be obesus. 



50. Kelleft and Wood. — The locality-marks, on further study, display still 



greater inaccuracies. 



j\ flssa Woodwardii, Fbs., Sandwich Islands [is the adolescent state of a very abun- 

 dant Vancouver and Californian shell, = iV! mendica, Gld.]. 



Kdssa Coopen, Fbs., Sandwich Islands. [The type is immature and in poor con- 

 dition ; but it is a rare Caiifomian species, since found by Dr. Cooper.] 



Trocliita spirata [has not been confirmed from Gulf Cal., but appears in Brit. Mus. 

 from St. Vincent, Cape Verdls., on the excellent authority of Macgillivray, who 

 did not visit the West Coast. The Cumingian specimens were from K. and W. ; 

 but the "spirata, var.," from Magellan and Peru, are simply turrited forms of T. 



Clilorostoma aureotincta [=C nigerrima (Gmel.), Mus. Cum.; but it is unlikely 



that Gmelin knew the species. It is not quoted by Desh. (Lam. ix. 157) : but 



the Trochus in fauce nigerrimus., Chemn. f. 1526, = T. melanostnmus, Gmel., is a 



Risella.'] 

 Margarita purpurata et HiUii [are South American shells]. 

 Purpura analoga [is the rough in-egular form of P. canaUculaia=decemcostata'\. 

 „ fuscata, Fbs. [of which one brown and one whitish specimen (immature) 



are preserved in the Brit. Mus. as types, is the large, smooth, rather elevated vax. 



of saxicola. It belongs to the Vancouver district]. 

 Purpura, like decem-costatus and Freyoinetii [is the normal state of saxicola. The 



banded smooth var. is named in Brit. Mus. " ? Puc. striatum, Martyn, Un. 



Conch, no. 7," but does not agree with the figure]. 

 Fusus Kelhttii. [This Siphonalia, after long remaining unique in the Brit. Mus. 



Col., has been twice confirmed from the San Diegan district by the Smithsonian 



collectors. Dr. Cooper's living specimen is 6-25 in. long ; and one specimen 



was dredged by A. Ad. in the seas of South Japan.] 



51. Reigen. — The type collection, presented to the Brit. Mus., contains 

 (ihout SOOO specimens. The iirsfc duplicate series, containing about 6000 

 shells, was presented to the State of New York at the urgent request of 

 Dr. Newoomb (well known for his researches in Achatinella, made during his 

 professional residence in the Sandwich Islands), and is arranged in the Albany 

 Museum. Three other typical series were prepared for the Museums of 

 Paris, Berlin, and St. Petersburg, and offered on the same terms, viz. that 

 they should be arranged by the author, and preserved intact for the free use 



I Dijad sliolls at La i'dz ; two fresh epecimens in deep water from SanJo^e; ditto, 

 liieut. Green, 



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