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5. Purpura {Polytropa) scobina, Quoy and Gaimard (var. albomarginata, Desh.) 



Purpura scobina, Quoy and Gaimard, "Astrolabe " (Zool.), vol. ii. pi. xxxviii. figs. 12, 13. 

 albomarginata, Deshayes, Mag. de zool., 1841, No. 13, pi. xliv. 

 scobina, Kiener, Iconog., pp. 113, 119, sp. 75, pi. xxxv. fig. 83. 

 „ Lamarck, Anini. s. vert. (ed. Desh.), vol. x. p. 113, sp. 80. 

 „ Kiister, Conch. Cab. (ed. Kiister), p. 155, sp. 59, pi. xxva. figs. 10, 11. 

 (Polytropa) scobina, Tryon, Manual, vol. ii. p. 170, pi. Ii. figs. 112, 121-124, pi. Hi. figs. 

 126-130, 132, 133. 

 Polytropa scobina, Hutton, Manual New Zealand Moll., p. 57. 



June 26, 1874. D'Urville Island, New Zealand. Beach. 



Habitat. — New Zealand (Quoy and Gaimard). 



The variety is described as a new species, by Deshayes, in the Magasin de Zoologie (loc. cit.), 

 where it is admirably figured. It is smooth instead of being strongly and muricately lirate, and 

 has the spire lower. The Purpura scobina, Reeve, is not this species, but is the Purpura 

 harpa, Conrad. 



2. Rapana, Schumacher, 1817. 

 Rapana bulbosa, Solander. 



Rapana bulbosa, Solander MS. 



Martini, Conch. Cab., vol. iii. p. 34, pi. Ixviii. figs. 750-753. 

 Murex rapa, Gmelin, p. 3545, No. 68 (but not of Linne). 

 Buccinum bulbosum, Dillwyn, vol. ii. p. 631, No. 104. 



Wood, Ind. Test., p. 117, pi. xxiii. fig. 105. 

 Pyrula rapa, Schubert and Wagner, Conch. Cab., vol. xii. p. 97, pi. ccxxvi. figs. 4016, 4017. 



„ „ Lamarck, Anim. s. vert., vol. vii. p. 144, and (ed. Desh.) vol. ix. p. 515, sp. 17. 



,, „ Deshayes, Encyclopedic method., vers., vol. iii. p. 868, sp. 10, pL ccccxxxiv. fig. 1. 



Pyrula bulbosa, Reeve, Conch. Syst., vol. ii. p. 190, pi. ccxxxvi. fig. 3. 

 Pyrula rapa, Kiener, Iconographie, p. 23, sp. 15, pi. vii fig. 1. 

 Pyrula bulbosa, Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. iv. pL iv. fig. 14. 

 Rapana „ Tryon, Manual, voL ii. p. 203, pi. lxiii. fig. 336. 



Station 208. January 17, 1875. Lat. 11° 37' N., long. 123° 31' E. Philippines. 

 18 fathoms. Blue mud. 



Habitat. — China, Japan, Philippines. 



3. Vitularia, Swainson, 1840. 



Vitularia crenifera (Montrouzier). 



Murex creniferus, Montrouzier, Journ. de conch., vol. ix. 1861, p. 279,'pl. xi. figs. 9, 10. 

 Vitularia crenifera, Kobelt, Jakrb. d. deutsch. malak. Gesellsch., 1877, p. 253, sp. 3. 



