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letterpress, both of which he still further improved in the Jahrb. deutsch. malak. Gesellsch., which, 

 though (teste the title-pages) earlier by four years, really followed the part of the Conch. Cab. con- 

 taining these species. 



Apart from such questions regarding the specific identity of these forms lies a further difficulty, 

 viz., by what name the species must be called. The name carinatum had been already, in 1832 

 (two years before Gray used it), attached by Bivona to a fossil Plcurotoma from Calabria (Biv., 

 fil. Gener. and sp. posthum., p. 12 ; see Phil., Enum., vol. ii. p. 176, pi. xxvi. fig. 19), and the English 

 Crag (Searles "Wood, Crag Moll., Pal. Soc, vol. i. p. 54, pi. vi. fig. 2) now living in Scotland (Jeffreys, 

 Brit. Conch., vol. v. p. 321, pi. cii. fig. 7), and in Norway (G. 0. Sars, Moll. Reg. Arct. Norv., p. 242, pi. 

 xvii. fig. 5). Gray's name of carinatum for the Pacific species must, therefore, be abandoned. Mr. 

 E. A. Smith informs me that this Pacific species is probably the same as that which Gray afterwards 

 described in the Zoology of Beechey's Voyage, 1839, p. 119, under the name of Plcurotoma coniformis. 

 It would be very satisfactory if this could be established, but in the meantime Reeve's name is pro- 

 bably the best, and I have accordingly adopted it here. 



4. Plcurotoma tigrina, Lamarck. 



Pleurotoma tigrina, Lamarck, Anim. s. vert., vol. vii. p. 95, and (ed. Desk) vol. ix. p. 352, sp. 20. 

 ,, ,, Deshayes, Encycl. method., vers., vol. iii. p. 794, sp. 7, pi. ccccxxxix. fig. 6. 



,, ,, Kiener, Iconog., p. 10, sp. 6, pi. viii. fig. 1. 



„ ,, Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. i. pL i. fig. 3. 



Gould, U.S. Expl. Exped., p. 249, pi. xviii. fig. 311. 

 ,, ,, WeinkaufF, Conch. Cab. (ed. Kiister), p. 13, sp. 5, pi. ii. figs. 5-7. 



„ „ Brazier, "Chevert" Exped., Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, vol. ii. p. 368. 



„ „ v. Martens, Moll. Mauritius, &c, p. 226. 



July 29, 1874. Levuka, Fiji. 12 fathoms. 



Habitat. — North-East Australia and Torres Strait (Brazier), Ticao, Philippines 

 (Reeve), Fiji (British Museum), Indian Ocean, from Madagascar to the Malay Archipelago 

 (v. Martens). 



Gould's figure and description of the animal of this species is so very different from the received 

 generic diagnosis, say of Adams or Weinkauff, still more of Gray in his Guide, pp. 7, 8, as 

 grievously to shake one's confidence in the whole of the so-called " science " of malacology, based 

 as it largely is on specimens much changed from their original form by the spirit of wine in which 

 they have been preserved. 



5. Pleurotoma undosa, Lamarck. 



Pleurotoma undosa, Lamarck, Anim. s. vert., vol. vii. p. 95, and (ed. Desh.) voL ix. p. 351, sp. 18. 

 ,, „ Encycl. method., vers., pL ccccxxxix. fig. 5. 



„ „ Kiener, Iconog., p. 13, sp. 9, pi. iii. fig. 2. 



,, Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. i. pi. iii. fig. 18. 

 „ „ Weinkauff, Conch. Cab. (ed. Kiister), p. 18, sp. 11, pi. iii. figs. 7, 8. 



» ,> Try on, Manual, vol. vi. p. 166, pL iii. fig. 21. 



September 9, 1874. Albany Island, Cape York, Torres Strait. 3 to 12 fathoms. 



