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(Browne) . On tlie other hand, Messrs. Adams substitute Angaria 
(Bolten) for Delphinula,QXidi Dactylus (Klein) for OlivUy proposing 
the latter name for another entirely difterent genus, viz. Cylichna 
(Loven) . Perfectly ridiculous mistakes even have arisen from the 
zeal for discovering old generic denominations : Chemnitz, follow- 
ing Linnets classification in the later portion of his ‘ Conchylien- 
Kabinet,^ adopts the Linnean genus Solen in its original extent ; 
but not having fixed rules for the denomination of species, he 
calls one (Solen) legumen (as in the ' Systema Naturie^), and 
another Leguminurn maximum^ which, as everybody knows, 
means the largest of the legumens. But Messrs. Adams quote 
Leguminum^ Chemnitz, as a synonymous generic name I Rumph 
narrates that in his time tlie Amboynese used a Psammobia-like 
shell -fish in the preparation of a highly prized sauce which he 
compares with the garmn of the Romans, naming the shell 
Tellina gari, the Tellina of the sauce. The description and 
figure given by Rumph are not exact enough to admit of a 
direct identification of the species ; but as Psammotcea violacea 
(Lam.) is the only species which is sold in abundance in the 
markets of Amhoyna, and to which Rumph's account can be 
applied, we think that this is the Tellina gari. Linne adopted 
this name, but applied it to other similar species. Schumacher, 
regarding Tellina gari of Linne as the type of a distinct genus, 
designated it with the genitive case Gari. And, finally, we find 
in tlie work of Messrs. Adams (ii. p. 390) Gari gari as the only 
.admissible name of a shell which is not the sauce-shell of 
Rumph ! — Poli adopted the nomenclature of Linne in the body 
of his work, but in the introduction he gives a classification of 
Bivalves founded upon the characters of the soft parts of the 
animals. The genera thus established did not correspond with 
the Linnean, which are based on the dilferences of the hinge; 
and therefore Poli introduced new names for them. Afterwards 
he expresses his opinion that the shell should be designated by 
a generic name somewhat different from that of the animal in- 
habiting it, namely by a compound of this name with — derma 
(skin) ; thus, for instance, the animals of the modern genus 
Tellina are called Peroniea, and the shells Peronceoderma^ the 
oysters Peloris^ and their shells Peloriderma. Now, Hr. Morch 
and after him Messrs. Adams distinguish two subgenera of 
Tellina, calling the one Peroncea (Poli) the other Peronceoderma. 
Peroncea contains one of the species described by Poli as Tellina, 
and mentioned as an example for his Peroncea as well as for his 
Peronceoderma ; Pen'onceoderma, Morch, does not contain a species 
described by Poli. So well understood are the works of the 
authors whose rights the champions of the law of priority feel 
bound to reestablish ! 
It appears to be self-evident that neither generic names which 
are used in manuscripts or collections only (like those of Leach), 
