Notes on South African Mollusca. 105 



Insistence must be laid on the inflated whorls and short spire, as 

 otherwise there is hardly any conchological feature by which certain 

 species of PJii/tia can be separated from Narinula, although the 

 genotypes are quite distinct. 



If the foregoing tests are applied to each of the 31 species which 

 have been referred to King's genus, the following 17 can be at 

 once eliminated ; I give the earliest reference in each case, the 

 letters D, F, L, N, A, & E signifying, respectively, Description, 

 Figure of shell, Locality, Note, Anatomy, and Eadula. 



Ovatella punctata, Bivona, 1832. Effem. Sci. Lett. Sic. p. 58. 



PI. I, f. 6. D.F. 

 A synonym of Phytia firmini. 



llelampus aequalis, Lowe, 1832. Zool. Journ. v. p. 288. PI. XIII, 



f. 1-5. D.F. 

 A Madeiran species which should apparently be placed in Phytia. 



Auricula firminii, Payraudeau, 1826. Cat. Moll. Corse, p. 105. 



PI. V, f. 9, 10. D.F. 

 A Mediterranean species of PJiytia. 



Mclampus gracilis, Lowe, 1832. Zool. Journ. v. p. 288. D. 



Another Madeiran shell, of which respertina, Morelet, and 

 loweana, Pfr., are considered synonyms, and itself, according to 

 Wollaston, very nearly related to Phytia myosotis (Drap.) 



Cremnobates cornea, Swainson, 1855. Pap. and Proc. Eoy. Soc. 



V.D. Land, hi. 1, p. 43. PL VII, f. 1. D.F. 

 A synonym of Ophicardclus australis, Q. & G. 



Auricula acuta, d'Orbigny, 1835. Mag. de Zool. p. 23. D. 

 Described from Guayaquil, and best placed in PJiytia. 



Pythia abbreviates, Beck, 1838. Index Moll. p. 105 (ivithout 



characters), 

 llarinula abbreviata, Beck, Pfr. 1856. Mon. Auric, p. 65. N. 



Pfeiffer remarks : " Absque ulla indicatione, ex loco speciei inter 

 Pythiam aequalem et pat ul am assignato forsan hue referenda?"; 

 but whatever may be its true genus, as the shell is said to come 

 from the Antilles it is quite unlikely to be a Marinula. 



Auricula vulcani, Morelet, 1860. Notice sur 1'Hist. Nat. des 



Agores. p. 207. PI. V, f. 8. D.F. 

 Placed by Wollaston in the synonymy of Phytia aequalis, Lowe. 



