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Show 842 MR. E. A. SMITH ON THE GENUS CHILINA. [Nov. 15, roBustior, C.fluctuosa, C. ampullacea, C. giBBosa, C. tehuelcha, tenuis, and C. fasciata, have the same vague geographical distribution assigned to them, although in some instances their precise localities were already known. Certain species are quoted from Baldivia and Boldivia, which are misspellings of Valdivia in Southern Chile. These are C. acuminata, C. puelcha, and G. elegans. The collection of this genus in the Museum contains the actual types described and figured by d'Orbigny, also the series from Mr. Cuming's collection which was recorded and named by Frauenfeld, and the types of the new species described in the ' Conchologia Iconica.' Of the nineteen species hereafter enumerated, the following are wanting-namely C. angusta, Philippi, C. gloBosa, Frauenfeld, G. parva, Martens, C. portillensis, Hidalgo, and Pseudochilina lim-naformis, Dall. Family CHILINID^E, Dall, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. York, 1870, vol. ix. p. 357. Genus CHILINA. Bulimus (part.), Bruguiere; Conovulus (part.), Lamarck; Auricula (part.), Lamarck and Lesson; Otis(\i&rt.), Humphreys; Voluta (part.), Maton; Chilina (subgen.), Gray; DomBeia, d'Orhigny and Gould; Limneus, d'Orbigny ; Chilinia, Woodward ; Potamophila, Swaiuson. 1. CHILINA DOMBEIANA, Bruguiere. Bulimus domBeianus, Brug. Encyclo. Meth. Hist. Nat. Vers, tome vi. p. 335, no. 66. Conovulus Bulimoides, Lamarck, Tab. Ency. Meth. pi. 459. f. 7 a. Auricula domBeyana, Lamarck, An. s. Vert. vol. vi. p. 140 ; ed. 2, vol. viii. p. 331. Chilina domBeyana, Gray, Spicil. Zool. p. 5 ; Kiister, Conch.-Cab. p. 66, pi. 9. f. 18, 19 ; Sowerby, Conch. 111. f. 11 ; id. Conch. Icon. f. 4a, B ; id. Conch. Man. f. 300 ; d'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. me'rid., Mollusques, p. 333; Hupe, Gay's Hist. Chile, vol. viii. p. 128; Frauenfeld, Verhandl. zool.-botan. Gesellsch. Wien, 1866, vol. xvi. pp. 192-195. Auricula fluviatilis, Lesson, Zool. Voy. Coqille, p. 342. Limneus domBeianus, d'Orb. Mag. de Zool. 1835, p. 25. Chilina fluctuosa, Sow. (non Gray) Conch. 111. f. 2; id. Conch. Icon. f. 2; Reeve, Conch. Syst. pi. 189. f. 2. HaB. Rio de Maule (d'OrBigny); river Peneo, near Concepcion, Chile {Lesson). 2. CHILINA FLUCTUOSA, Gray. Otis fluctuosa, Humphreys, Mus. Calonnianum, p. 62. Auricula (Chilina) fluctuosa, Gray, Spicil. Zool. p. 5, pi. vi. f. 19. Chilina fluctuosa, d'Orb. Voy. Amer. merid. p. 334, pi. 43. f. 13- 16 ; Kiister, Concb.-Cab. p. 64, pi. 9. f. 7-9 ; Frauenfeld, Verhandl. zool.-botan. Gesellsch. Wien, 1866, pp. 192-197; Martens, Mai. Blat. 1869, p. 217 ; Hup4 Gay's Chile, vol. viii. p. 128. |