618 NOMENCLATURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENUS PYTHIA, 



Pythia striata, Pfr., Synop. Auric, in Malak. Blat., Vol. i., p. 

 149, 1854, also in Mon. Auric. Viv., p. 94, 1856, also in Brit. 

 Mus. Cat. Auriculidee, p. 71, 1857, also in Mon. Auriculaceorum 

 p. 342, 1876. H. and A. Adams, in Gen. Bee. Moll., Vol. ii., p. 

 239-240, 1858. Patel, Cat. der Conch, p. 114, 1873. 



Pythia striata, Beeve, is made by G. Neville in his Hand List 

 of the Mollusca in the Indian Museum at Calcutta, p. 223, 1878, 

 a variety of Pythia Lessoni of Blainville, which again he makes 

 =to P. savaiensis of Mousson. 



Auricula scarabceus, of Quoy and Gamard, in Voy. Astrolabe, 

 Vol. ii., p. 162. pi. fig. 24, is considered by Bf eiffer as a synonym 

 of this species. 



Habitat. San Nicolas Island of Zebu, Bhilippines is the habitat 

 recorded by Beeve and Bf eiffer, on the authority of Cuming. 

 Bfeiffer gives the Indian Archipelago on the authority of Quoy. 

 Neville gives for his variety striata, Beeve, Galathea Bay, Katchall 

 and Teressa on the authority of Dr. Stoliczka and B. A. de 

 Boepstorff Esq. I possess good specimens of this species from 

 the New Hebrides Islands. 



Neville has in his collection a variety of this shell he calls 

 (prox. striata) from Great Cocos Island and from Borneo Straits, 

 collected by Dr. Stoliczka. 



Beeve in his Conchologia Iconica remarks that the example of 

 this species figured by him in pi. iii., fig. 26 is not a characteristic 

 one, and refers to that given in his Conch. Syst. as mentioned as 

 the true original type. 



47** Py TIII a tortuosa, Mousson. 



Pythia tortuosa, Mousson, in Journal de Conchyliologie, Vol. 

 xix., p. 19-20, pi. iii., fig. 6, 1871. Patel in Cat. der Conch., p. 

 114, 1873. Schmeltz, in Cat. v., of Mus. Godeffroy, p. 87, 1874; 

 Bfr., in Mon. Auriculaceorum, p. 339, 1876. Neville, in Hand 

 List of Moll, in Ind. Mus., p. 221, 1878. 



