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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Dalmatia, appears to be one of the varieties or doubtful species united by 
most authors under the name of C. linru^i (Payr.) or C. scripta (L.). Bru- 
sina distinguishes a third as C. nasuta=Voluta nasuta (Qm.^ = Buccinu7n 
SQ7'iptumj var. cocdnmin (Philippi). 
Columhella yorkensisj Crosse, Journ. Conch, xiii. p. 55, pi. 2. fig. 6, South 
Australia; C. fimiculata and sotiverhieij Crosse, ibid. pp. 157-161, pi. 5. 
figs. 8 & 9, New Caledonia ; C. intetTuptaf Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, 
p. 56, pi. 2. figs. 9 & 10, South Australia. — C. humarosa, Carpenter, I c. p. 281 , 
Acapulco.-r(7. doi’ics, Issel, Mem. Accad. Torin. xxiii. p. 11, pi. 1. figs. 3 & 4, 
Persian Gulf. 
Anachis tce 7 iiata=i Colwnbella tceniata, Philippi, Zeitschr. fiir Malakozool. 
1846=^. gaskoinij Carpenter, Mazatlan Catalogue : Carpenter, Proc. Zool. 
Soc. 1865, p. 273. — A. sei'rata, the diagnosis revised by Carpenter, ibid. — A. 
penicillata, Carpenter, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xv. p. 398, California ; sculp- 
ture Metuloid. 
Amycla tuberosa, Carpenter, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xv. p. 898, California ; 
A- undcda, Carpenter, Proc. Californ. Acad. Nat. Sc. iii. 1864, p, 139, Cali- 
fornia. 
Engina fusiformis and ovataj Pease, Proc. Zool. Soc, p, 613, Central 
Pacific. 
MARGINELLIDiE. 
Erato. Eigliteen species are figured in Reeve’s ^ Conchologia Iconica.’ New 
appear to be E, hce^natina (Menke, MS.), fig. 8, Porto Rico [probably identi- 
cal with Margindldhce^natitea of Sowerby’a ^ Thesaurus,’ figs. 60^& 61] ; pellu- 
cidctj fig. 16, Bombay ; mgidifera (Sowerby, MS. in Cuming’s collection), 
fig. 6, Borneo; gallmacea (Gould, MS.), fig. 7; corrugata (Hinds, MS.), 
fig. 12, and minutaj fig. 11, Philippines ; nuna (Duclos), fig. 18, locality im- 
known. 
Margmella. Not less than 159 species of this genus are figured in Reeve’s 
^ Conchologia Iconica,’ many of them figured for the first time ; entirely new 
are the following, besides those mentioned already in the ^ Record ’ for 1864 : 
M. epigruSj fig. 151, Mogadore ; vexillum (Redfield, MS. in coll. Cuming), 
fig. 98, Cape Palmas; bihalteata, fig. 99, cffidgenSjfig.lOi:, pyndim,^^. 117, 
and ajfinis, fig. 136, from the West Indies; hondurasensiSf fig. 
(Carpenter in coll. Cuming), fig. 146, New California ; bmso7ii, fig. 158, Green 
Point, Cape of Good Hope; encaustica, fig, 148, Ceylon; ti'aillii, fig. 114, Ma- 
lacca ; corusca, fig. 143, and infans, fig. 150, Singapore ; bellula, fig. 139, dens, 
fig. 120, bulbosa, fig. 144, and lachryma, fig. 149, Borneo; simplex, fig. 115, 
attenuata, fig. 116 , olivella, fig. 140, and pisum, fig. 156, Australia ; ovum, 
fig. 89, livida, fig. 100, guttida, fig. 101, tribalteata, fig. 102, navicella, fig. 103, 
alabaster, fig. 107, immersa, fig. 109, cantharus, fig. 110, rufescens, fig. 112, 
electrwn, fig. 118, compressa, fig. 130, volutiformis, fig. 131, ohscura, fig. 132, 
paxillus^fi'Q. 133, sordida, fig. 137, semen, fig. 145, ros, fig. 147, all these from 
unknown localities. 
Marginella capensis, Dunlcer, noticed by Reeve as MS. name in Cuming’s 
collection, has been published and figured long ago by Krauss, Siidafrikanische 
Mollusken, 1818, p. 125, pi. 6. fig. 21. The same is the case with some spe- 
cies named by Gaskoin, noticed here as manuscript names, but published 
