REPORT ON THE GASTEROPODA. 397 



2. Ranella rana (Linne). 



Murex rana, Linne, Syst. Nat. (ed. 12), p. 1216, No. 527. 



„ „ Chemnitz, Conch. Cab., vol. iv. p. 106, pL cxxxiii. figs. 1270, 1271. 



„ „ Dillwyn, Catalogue, vol. ii. p. 691, sp. 21. 

 . „ „ Wood, Ind. Test., p. 127, pi. xxv. fig. 21. 

 Ranella crumena, EncycL method., vers, pi. ccccxii. fig. 3. 



„ „ Lamarck, Anim. s. vert, vol. vii. p. 151, and (ed. Desk) vol. ix. p. 544, sp. 5 (see 



Deshayes' note). 



„ elegans, Kiener, Iconog., p. 4, sp. 2, pL iii. fig. 1. 



,, albivaricosa, Reeve, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1844, p. 136. 



„ „ Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. ii. pi. i. fig. 2. 



Murex rana, Hanley, Ipsa Linn. Conch., pp. 284, 520. 

 Ranella albivaricosa, Kiister, Conch. Cab. (ed. Kiister), p. 133, sp. 10, pl.xxxviii. figs. 8, 9. 



„ rana, Kobelt, Jahrb. deutsch. malak. Gesellsch., 1876, p. 331, sp. 39. 



,, „ Lischke, Japan. Meer. Conch., voL i. p. 50. 



Bursa rana, Brazier, "Chevert" Exped. Shells, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 1877, vol. i. 



p. 175, No. 21. 

 Ranella albivaricosa, Tryon, Manual, voL iii. p. 3S, pi. xviii. figs. 5, 6. 



„ rana, Dunker, Index Moll. Mar. Japon., p. 31. 



„ „ E. A Smith, "Alert" Collections, p. 56, No. 45. 



Station 188. September 10, 1874. Lat. 9° 59' S., long. 139° 42' E. West of Cape 

 York, North Australia. 28 fathoms. Green mud. 



Station 189. September 11, 1874. Lat. 9° 36' S., long. 137° 50' E. West of Cape 

 York, North Australia, and south-west of Papua. 25 fathoms. Green mud. 



Station 190. September 12, 1874. Lat. 8° 56' S., long. 136° 5' E. Arafura Sea. 

 49 fathoms. Green mud. 



October 6, 1874. Amboina. 15 to 25 fathoms. 



Station 203. October 31, 1874. Lat. 11° 6' N., long. 123° 9' E. Philippines. 20 

 fathoms. Mud. 



Habitat. — North-east Australia and Torres Strait, 20 to 30 fathoms (Brazier) ; 

 Moluccas (Berne Mus., Coll. Shuttleworth) ; China and Japan (Lischke). 



Why Reeve (loc. cit.), recognising this as Linne's species, published it under a new name, and 

 why Reeve's name is accepted, is not obvious. Hanley (loc. cit.) assures us that though other species 

 are^mixed up with it, yet Ranella rana, Linne = Ranella albivaricosa, unmistakably appears under its 

 proper name in the Linnean collection. 



3. Ranella Jijiensis, Watson (PL XXXIV. fig. 7). 



Ranella fijiensis, Watson, Prelim. Report, pt. 7, Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., vol.xv. p. 270. 



Station 173. July 24, 1874. Lat. 19° 9' 35" S., long. 179° 41' 50" E. Fiji. 315 

 fathoms. Coral mud. 



Station 204a. November 2, 1874. Lat. 12° 43' N.Jong. 122° 9' E. Philippines. 

 100 to 115 fathoms. Green mud. 



