BY JAMES C. COX, M.D., F.L.S., ETC. 593 



least no record of it is made by Mr. Geoffroy Neville, the able 

 and accomplished author of the " Hand List of Mollusca in the 

 Indian Museum at Calcutta, 1878 ;" from this fact I doubt if it is 

 found there at all. 



It is one of the most abundant and widely distributed species 

 at the Solomon Islands, and it is the largest species found there. 

 I have specimens of it from Makera Harbour, San Christoval Isl., 

 Ugi, a small island off San Christoval, also Santa Catalina and 

 Isabel Islands all of the Southern division of the Solomon Group, 

 so far I have not received any specimens north of these localities. 



4### p-jTHTA. Argenvillei, Pfeiffer. 



Pythia Argenvillei, Pfr., in Zeitscbrift fur Malakozoologie, p. 

 191, 1853 ; in Pfr., Synopsis, Auric, in Malak. Blatt i., p. 145, 

 1854 ; Pfr's., Mon. Auric. Viv. p. 96, 1856 ; Pfr. in Brit. Mus. 

 Cat. Auriculidse, p. 73, 1857 ; Pfr. Novet. Conch., Vol. iii., p. 361, 

 pi. 83, fig. 15-17; Pfr's. Mon. Auriculaceorum, p. 342, 1876; 

 D'Argenville, La Conch. Augmentea de la Zoomorpliose, 1757, 

 t. 9 (12) f. T. ; H. and A. Adams, Gen. Eec. Moll., Vol. ii., p. 

 240, 1853 and 1856. 



Scarabus Argenvillei, Peeve, Cone. Icon. Mon. Scarabus, Vol. 

 xii., Sp. 24, pi. iii., fig. 24, 1860 : at least I presume this is 

 Pfeiffer' s species, but the latter named author is quite ignored 

 by Peeve as the describer of the species ; it would appear from 

 Eeeve's Mon. that the species was his own. Strange to say also, 

 Peeve does not give any habitat for this species, although it was 

 recorded by Pfeiffer in 1853, some eight years before Peeve's 

 Monograph was published. 



This species is not recorded by Paetel in his Catalog der 

 Conchyliensammlung, 1873. 



Habitat. North Coast of Australia. Pfeiffer, Brit. Mus. Cat. 



This is an abundant, but very local species. I have never 

 received it from any other locality than the one as above recorded. 



