596 NOMENCLATURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENUS PYTHIA, 



Pythia castanea, Mcirch, in Catalogus Conchyliorum Comes de 

 Yoldi, p. 37, 1852 ; Pfr. in Synopsis Auric in Malak. Blatt., p. 

 149, 1854 ; Pfr., in Mon. Auric. Viv., p 91. 185G ; Pfr , in Brit. 

 Mus. Cat. Auriculidce, p. 69, 1857 ; Pfr., in Mon. Auriculaceorum 

 p. 342, 1876; Neville, in Hand List of Mollusca in the Indian 

 Museum at Calcutta, p. 221, 1878. 



Habitat. Waigiou, Island of Zebu, Philippine Islands, Pfr. in 

 Mon. of 1876. Waygeeoo Pfr., on the authority of Lesson. 

 Island of Moluccas, Pfr. on the authority of Beck. Sibonga, 

 Island of Zebu, Philippine Islands (in the Woods) Eeeve on the 

 authority of Cuming. Katchall, Nicobar Islands and from 

 Borneo Strait, G. Neville, on the Authority of Dr. Stoliczka. 



G. Neville in his Hand List of the Mollusca in the Indian 

 Museum at Calcutta, p. 221, makes a var minor of this species 

 and which he considers identical with A. Adams' species imper- 

 forata " [jnv? =P. imperforata, A. Ad.]" collected by Stoliczka 

 and de Eoepstorff at Camorta and Nicobars. 



Neville also considers it propable that Pythia tortuosa of 

 Mousson is only a variety of this species judging from the specimens 

 he had received from Putuna ex Museum Godeffroy. 



9*-** Pythia Cecillei, Philippi. 



Scarabus cecillei, Phil, in Zeitschrift f iir Malakozoologie, p. 122, 

 1847; A. Adams, in Pro. Zool. Soc, 1850, p. 149 ; Eeeve, Mon. 

 Scarabus in Cone. Icon., Vol. xii., Sp. 20, pi. hi., fig. 20, 1800; 

 A. Adams, in Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. viii., p. 68. 



Pythia Cecillei, Pfr. in Mon. Auric. Viv. p. 97, 1856; Pfr., in 

 Brit. Mus. Cat. p. 74, 1857; Pfr., in Novitates Conch. Vol. iii., 

 pi. lxxxiii., (not xxviii.) p. 355, fig. 3, 4. 1867, 1869; Pfr. in 

 Mon. Auviculacea, p. 342, 1876 ; Paetel, in Catalog der Conch., 

 Sammluug, p. 114, 1973 ; H. and A. Adams, Gen. Eect. Moll., 

 Vol. ii., p. 240, 1858. 



