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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
allied to B, [C.] minun (Scacchi)j Columhella ehenuniy sp. n., Philippi, 
ibid. p. 223 : both from the Straits of Magellan. 
ColumheUa fusiformis is a new name for pusilla (Pease), which is pre- 
occupied; C. palumhina (Gould) and sandtvichensis (Pease) ai'e=tu7'turina 
(Lam.); pellucida (Pease) =ronc?a (Reeve); nana (Kien.) and pallida 
(Desh.)s=jt?6Ba7a (Sow.). Pease, 1. c. p. 122. 
Citharo^Jsis, gen. nov. Testa parva, fusiformi, longitudinaliter costata, 
nitida, interdum iridescente; labro superne emarginato, intus lirato aut 
denticulate ; apertura angusta. They belong evidently to the Oolumbellinse 
[and may properly be included in the genus Columhella ; there is already 
another genus of the same name, established by A. Adams in 1865, Ann. & 
Mag. Nat. Hist. xv. p. 323, and this Record, ii. p. 250]. To this genus are 
referred the species Triton pusillus (Pease), Columhella lachryma (Gaskoin), 
and two new ones, viz. ornata, from Tahiti, and gracilis from the Paumotu 
Islands. Pease, 1. c. p. 97, pi. 11. figs. 19 and 20. 
PrOBOSCIDIFERA TiENIOGLOSSA. 
CaSSIDIDAS and RANELLIDiE. 
M.Panceri has continued his observations on the secretion of 
sulphuric acid in some Gastropods. The salivary glands of the 
Mediterranean species of the genera Dolium, Cassis, Cassidaria, 
and Tritonium are double, consisting of a superior lobe which 
is of acinose structure, and homologous to the salivary gland of 
other Gastropods, and of an inferior lobe of tubular structure, 
which secretes the sulphuric acid; it is enveloped in a mus- 
cular membrane, the contraction of which serves to expel the 
fluid. In JRanella gigantea this organ is absent, and no free 
acid was discovered in it. Ann. Sci. Nat. x. pp. 89-92. See 
also PleurobranchidcB, 
Cassis sahurm (Brug.) and C.sidcosa (Brug.). On their variations, Wein- 
kauff. Conch, d. Mittelm. ii. pp. 39-44. 
Cassidaria echinophora (L.). On its varieties, including depressa (Phil.), 
but C tgrrhena (Chemn.) admitted as a distinct species, Weinkauft', l.c. 
pp. 47-51. 
Cassis sahuron (Brug.). Lingual dentition and jaw by Hogg, Transact. 
Roy. Microscop. Soc. xvi. pi. 9. fig. 26. 
Ti'itonium parthenopus (Salis) = swccme^wm (Lam.) from the Mediterranean, 
Weinkauft*, 1. c. p. 77. [Misspelt iov 2 ittrthenopeum.‘] 
Triton [-wm] dunkeri, sp. n., Lischke, Mai. Bliitt. xv. p. 219, Nagasaki, 
allied to pyru7n (Lam.). 
Triton cylindricus, sp. n.. Pease, Am. Journ. Conch, iv. p. 94, pi. 11. fig. 9, 
Tahiti. — 2V. to7-tuoaus (Reeve) is var. of disto7'tus (Schub, et Wagn.), and 
Tr. gemmatus (Reeve) (Gould), Pease, ibid. pp. 106, 107. 
JRanella gigantea (Lam.), Murex oleariu7n (L.), and M. 7'eticxdaris (L.) 
ere rather doubtful synonyms, Weinkauff, 1. c. pp. 71-73. — R. affmis (Reeve) 
^livida (Reeve), and JR. pusilla (Brod.)= IVitoxi lacmiatiwi (Mighels), Poly- 
nesia, Pease, 1. c. p. 107. 
Bufo7ia7'ia scrohiculator (L.) is Adanson’s jahik, Weinkauff, /. c. p. 75. 
