222 THE VOYAGE "OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



8. Phos (Strongylocera) scutytilis, A. Adams (PI. XL fig. 1). ■ 



Phos sculptilis, MacGillivray, Voyage " Rattlesnake," 1852, vol. ii. p. 365 (the mere name). 

 „ (Strongylocera) sculptilis, A. Adams, Genera, 1858, vol. i. p. 115 (the mere name). 

 „ „ „ British Museum, ticket No. 1372 (referring to MaeGillivray's MS. list). 



September 8, 1874. Cape York, off Albany Island, Torres Strait. 3 to 12 fathoms. . 



Habitat. — Cape York, Western Australia, 3 to 5 fathoms (British Museum). 



I identified this specimen by comparison with the types in the British Museum. Why it is 

 there marked with " ? " I do not know, and the meagreness of my information exhibited in the 

 references above forbids my attempting to conjecture. Why Adams (Joe. cit. supra) should have 

 classed it under Morch's sub-genus Strongylocera I do not know ; the whorls are not angulated, the 

 upper part is not concave, the aperture is not contracted. Possibly this utter divergence from the 

 diagnosis of Morch's group may explain the " ? " of the British Museum, but such eccentricities are 

 no novelty in the hopeless confusion of subdivision. 



Mr Edgar Smith, in answer to my inquiry regarding the species, says : " The name appears to 

 be a MS. one. In the Voyage of the ' Rattlesnake,' Forbes enumerates a number of species collected 

 by MacGillivray in the laminarian region, and among them he mentions . . . Phos sculptilis. Beyond 

 this there is no mention of the species in the book." As the name has been published by Adams as 

 his own, and the species exhibited under his name, it had best be so left. 



9. Phos (Strongylocera) angulatus, Sower by. 



Phos angulatus, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., vol. iii. pt. 19, p. 89, sp. 3, pi. cexxi. fig. 7. 

 „ senticosus, var., E. A. Smith, " Alert " Collections, p. 50, No. 33. 



Station 212. January 30, 1875. Lat. 6° 54' N., long. 122° 18' E. Off Malanipa, 

 Basilan Strait, Philippines. 10 to 20 fathoms. Sand. 



Habitat. — Philippines (Sowerby), Japan (Siebold). 

 This is a rather attenuated form. It is not a Strongylocera 



8. Eburna, Lamarck, 1801. 



Eburna (Zemira) australis, Sowerby. 



Eburna australis, Sowerby, Conch. Illust., fig. 5, sp. 8. 1 



Pseudoliva australis, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., vol. iii. pt. 19, p. 73, sp. 2, pi. ccxvi.-figs. 7, 8. 

 Eburna australis, Reeve, Conch. Icon., voL v. pi. i. fig. 4. 

 „ (Zemira) australis, Adams, Genera, vol. i. p. 110. 



„ Angas, Port Jackson Moll., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, p. 189, No. 19. 

 „ australis, Lobbecke and Kobelt, Museum Lobbeckeanum in Jahrb. Malak. Gesellsch., 1880 r 



p. 335, No. 10, pi. vii. figs. 5-8. 

 „ „ Kobelt, Conch. Cab. (ed. Kiister), Eburna, p. 6, sp. 10, pi. lxxi. figs. 7-9. 



„ (Zemira) australis, Tryon, Manual, vol. iii. p. 213, pL lxxxii. fig. 474. 



