Science-gossip . [it g Fig. 75.—Plectopylis re/uga. impossible for me to decide, as the type specimensof the former, as well as of the other two species, arein the possession of the New York State Museum,Albany, , and my request for the loan of themwas referred to the Trustees, who decided not to letthe specimens go out of the country. The Director,Dr. Merrill, however, very obligingly had the shellsphotographed and their armatures sketched forme. I have thus the pleasure of being able to layauthentic figures before my readers. I am muchindebted to Dr. Merrill, as well as to Dr. Bagg,his a
Science-gossip . [it g Fig. 75.—Plectopylis re/uga. impossible for me to decide, as the type specimensof the former, as well as of the other two species, arein the possession of the New York State Museum,Albany, , and my request for the loan of themwas referred to the Trustees, who decided not to letthe specimens go out of the country. The Director,Dr. Merrill, however, very obligingly had the shellsphotographed and their armatures sketched forme. I have thus the pleasure of being able to layauthentic figures before my readers. I am muchindebted to Dr. Merrill, as well as to Dr. Bagg,his assistant, who made the sketches and furnishedvaluable notes, which, together with the photo-graphs, enabled me to clear up the doubtful pointsin connection with the three species in question. Plectopylis re/uga (figs. 7$a-e), from Tavoy, Burma,was described by Dr. Gould in the Proceedingsof the Boston Natural History Society, ii. (1846), suture impressed; aperture very oblique, heart-shaped ; peristome white, r
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