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18. Planaxis mollis. 
Planaxis mollis, Sowerby, Genera Shells, I, fig. 2, 1824, Hab.? ; = Buccinum 
brasilianum, Lam. Hist., VII, 1822 [misnomer | ;= Buccinum levigatum, 
Wood, Ind. Test. Sup. 1828 ; fide Smith var.=Pl. fulva, A. Adams» 
P. Zool. S. 1851, p. 271, Swan River; var.=P. pigra, Forbes, P. Zool. 
8S. 1850, Pitcairn Island. 
9 Port Jackson, &c.; coll. Dr. J. C. Cox and ex c. Asiatic Soc. Bengal. 
3 Australia; ex c. Dr. F. Stoliczka. 
Genus QUOYTA, Deshayes. 
Ene, Méth. IT, 1830 [sine descr.] type Planazis decollata, Quoy, and of 
Gray, Syn. Brit. Mus., 1840 ; = Fissilabria, Brown, Edinb. Journ. N. H. 
1836 ;= Quoya, Deshayes, Ene. Méth., III, 1843 ; =Leucostoma, Swain- 
son, T'reat, Malac., 1840. 
1. Quoyia decollata. 
Planaxis decollata, Quoy, Voy. Astrolabe, 1832, New Guinea; Caroline 
Islands fide v. Martens, New Caledonia, fide Fischer, and Yap, fide 
Schmeltz. 
1 Moluccas; ex c. Dr. H. Dohrn. 
1 Caroline I. ; ex c. C. F. Ancey, Esq. 
Genus HOLCOSTOMA, ZH. and A. Adams. 
P, Zool. 8. 1853 and Gen. Moll. I, p. 324, 1854, type H. piligerum, Philippi, 
{from Mascarene Islands, fide Deshayes, §c.]. 
I have never been able to obtain a specimen of this interest- 
ing genus. 
8, Family MELANIIDA, Orbigny. 
Moll. Canar. 1837 ; = Melaniade, Gray, 1840. 
Sub-family CHRIPHASINZ, Gill. 
P. Acad, Nat. Sci. Philad. 1863 [Febr.] 3=Family Strepomatide, Halde- 
man, l. c. [Sept.] 
I am unable to agree with Messrs. Brot and Tryon in accept- 
ing Haldeman’s name in preference to that of Gill’s. 
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