134 THE NAUTILUS. 



1807. V. digitalis Link. 



July, 1811. Mitra millepora Lamarck. 



1817. Valuta digitalis Dillwyn. 



p. 127. Valuta papilio Link. No fig. quoted, but the ex 

 cellent description enables one to recognize this as a synonym 

 of sphcerulata Mart. 



p. 127. Valuta dathrata Link. No fig. quoted, and the de- 

 scription is not determinable. It is said to be like pertusa 

 Gmel. but not coronate, cancellate, deeply punctured in the 

 furrows. The name dathrata Gmel. is already in use in Mitra 

 and therefore dathrata Link may conveniently be dropped. 



p. 127. Valuta elegans Link; V. plicaria B. Gmel. 3452: 

 Chem. x, 151 (by error 157), 1444, 1445. 



This is a much earlier name for the Mitra universally known 

 as regina Sow., which dates from 1828; but Link's name 

 cannot be used as it is preoccupied by Gmelin. 



Mitra elegans Reeve, Conch. Ic. pi. 29, f. 233, may be called 

 buriasemis, and M. elegans H. C. Lea, Am. Journ. Sci. & Arts, 

 40.102, alabamensis. 



p. 128. Valuta ornata Link. No fig. quoted, but I do not 

 think that there can be any doubt that the description is a clear 

 and accurate one of taeniata Lamarck as now understood. 

 Mitra ornata will therefore supersede M, taeniata. 



M. ornata A. Ad., P. Z. S. 1851, 135, may be renamed M. 

 adornata. 



M. ornata Kien.=3/. rossiae Rve. 



M. ornata Schubert and Wagner never seems to have been 

 subsequently recognized. 



p. 128. Valuta variabilis Link. Mart, iv, 148, 1364. 



This is a synonym of Mitra rugosa (Gmel.*)=corrtigata Lam. 



M. variabilis Rve., Conch. Ic., pi. 13, f. 95, is thus preoccu- 

 pied and I rename it polymorpha. 



p. 128. Valuta schroteri Link; Schroter's Einl. I, 221, pi. i, 

 f. 13. Dillwyn quite independently founded a Valuta schroeteri 

 on the same figure, which has been considered by Martens and 

 E. A. Smith to = Mitra picta Rve. (cf. Ann. Natal Govt. Mus. 

 I, pt. i, 32). It seems impossible to identify with certainty. 



