BY JAMES C. COX, M.D., F.L.S., ETC. 609 



Scardbus petiverianus, Ferussac, Tableaux Systeniatiques des 

 animaux Mollusques, suives d' un Prodrome &c, 1821, p. 101, 

 N. 3 ; Zoschel in Weigmanus Archiv. fiir Nalurgeschichte 1831, 

 i., p. 207 ; in Eeeve's Cone. Icon. Sp. 15, pi. 11, Feb. 15, 1860. 



Pythia petiveriana, Pfr., in Zeitschr fiir Malak., 1853, p. 128, 

 Pfr., Mon. Auric. Viv., 1856, p. 78, also Pfr., in Brit. Mus. Cat. 

 Auriculidao, 1857, p. 58-59 ; Pfr., in Mon. Auriculaceorurn, 1876, 

 p. 336 — An^i 3 . plicata, Ferussac?. Piitel, in Catalogue der 

 Conch. 1873, p. 114. 



Pfeiffer in 1856 came to the conclusion that this species was 

 not the same as described by Deshayes in Lamarck's Hist. 

 Naturalle sans Vertebres, 2nd Edit., Vol. viii., p. 339, N. 29, as 

 Auricula petiveriana, nor that described by Peeve under the 

 same name in the Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. ix., 1842 ; 

 or in Peeve's Conchologia Systematica, Vol. ii., 1842; lie also 

 considered that Kuster was wrong in his representation of this 

 species in the Conchylien-Cabinet, so also was A. Adams, in his 

 opinion, wrong in his definition of this species in his Monograph 

 of the Scarabus published in the Pro. Zool. Soc, Lon., for 1850, 

 p. 147. Peeve on the other hand in Conch. Icon. 1860, considers 

 that Adams' Scarabus pantherinus is a synonym only oipetiveriana 

 and also makes Deshaye's Auricula petiveriana as a synonym, 

 and omits pantherina altogether from his Monograph. H. and 

 A. Adams again in 1858, did not include petiveriana in their list 

 in Gen. Pecent Mollusca. The figures by Kuster and by Peeve 

 are certainly very unlike, it would be interesting to know if 

 the original type specimen of Ferrusac has been preserved, and 

 from what specimens the two authors took their figures. Pfr., 

 appears never to have seen the species. 



Habitat. Bengal, Petiver in Pfr. Peeve gives as a habitat on 

 the authority of Cuming, the Island of Siguijor, Philippine 

 Islands, in the woods and amongst stones. 



