402 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



April 17-18, 1874. Port Jackson, Sydney. 2 to 10 fathoms. 



Habitat.— Port Jackson, Australia (British Museum). 



I greatly doubt the identification of the New Zealand shells which have been regarded as belong- 

 ing to this species ; such of these as I have seen are only worn specimens (possibly a var.) of Ranella 

 argus, Gm. At the same time, I ought to say that Hutton expresses very decidedly an opposite 

 opinion (see Manual New Zealand Moll., pp. 64 and 202). Von Martens, however, only refers to it as 

 " stated to have been found " in New Zealand, and does not seem to have had actual specimens thence 

 before him (see Crit. List New Zealand Moll., p. 23). 



8. Ranella {Argobuccinum) pusilla, Broderip. 



Ranella pusilla, Broderip, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1832, p. 194. 

 „ „ Sowerby, Conch. I1L, fig. 1. 



„ „ Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. ii. pi. viii. fig. 44. 



„ „ Krauss, Siidafrik. Moll., p. 113, sp. 6. 



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



p. 175, No. 24. 

 Ranella pusilla, E. A. Smith, Marine Shells from Andamans, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, p. 815, 

 No. 50, pi. 1. fig. 15. 

 ,, „ v. Martens, Moll. Mauritius, &c, p. 268. 



„ {Argobuccinum) pusilla, Tryon, Manual, vol. iii. p. 44, pi. xxiii. fig. 50, pi. xxiv. figs. 



56-58, 66. 



Station 172. July 22, 1874. Lat. 20° 58' S., long. 175° 9' E. Inside the reef at 



Tongatabu. 18 fathoms. Coral mud. 



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



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



Habitat. — North-east and North Australia, 5 to 30 fathoms (Brazier) ; Andamans, Lord 

 Hood and Philippine Islands, Red Sea (E. A. Smith) ; Natal (Krauss) ; New Caledonia, Tahiti, 

 Lord Hood Islands, Sandwich Islands (Tryon) ; Mauritius and Polynesia (v. Martens). 



9. Ranella (Eupleura) perca (Perry). 



Biplex perca, Perry, Conchology, 1811, pi. iv. fig. 5. 

 Ranella pulchra, Sowerby, Conch. 111., fig. 19. 



,, ,, Kiener, Iconog., p. 8, sp. 5, pi. vi. fig. 1. 



„ perca, Lamarck, Anim. s. vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. ix. p. 556, sp. 24. 



,, pulchra, Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. ii. pi. viii. fig. 47. 



„ pulchella, E. Forbes, "Rattlesnake," 1852, Appendix, p. 382, pi. iii. fig. 6. 



„ jucunda, A. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1854, p. 70, No. 3. 

 Bursa (Eupleura) pulchella, Brazier, " Chevert " Exped. Shells, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 



vol. i. p. 176, No. 26. 

 Ranella (Argobuccinum) pulchra, Tryon, Manual, vol. iii. p. 43, pi. xxiii. fig. 51. 



„ 2' erca ! Dunker, Index Moll. Mar. Japon., p. 32. 



„ pulchella, E. A. Smith, "Alert" Collections, p. 56, No. 46. 



September 8, 1874. Flinders Passage, Cape York, North Australia. 7 fathoms. 



Habitat. — North-east Australia (Macgillivray, see Forbes) ; Torres Strait and New 

 Guinea (Brazier). 



