606 NOMENCLATURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENUS PYTHIA, 



31** Pythia nigricans, Pfeiffer. 



Pythia nigricans, Pfr., in Malakozoologie, Blatter, 1857 (non 

 1856 Pfr.) p. 174 ; Pfr., in Novit. Conch., Vol. iii., 1867-1869, 

 Sp. 482, p. 358, pi. lxxxiii., fig. 9, 10 ; Pfr., in Cat. Brit. Mus. 

 Anriculidee, 1857, p. 64 ; Pfr., in Monograph Auriculaceorum, p. 

 338, 1876. 



Habitat. Unknown. 



Pfeiffer's figure of this species in his Novitates Conch, is very 

 like specimens found on the North-cast Coast of Queensland, 

 Australia. 



32** Pythia nux, Reeve. 



Scarabus mix, Peeve, Conchologia Iconica, Vol. xii., 1860; 

 Monograph Scarabus, pi. ii., Sp. 18, fig. 18; in Gassies, Faune 

 Conch. Terrest. et Pluv. de la Novelle Caledonia), 1863, p. 56, 

 pi. 3, fig. 7, part 2nd, p. 100, 1869 (1872). 



Habitat. Balade, New Caledonia, Pfeiffer. I have specimens 

 of this species from Lifu, Loyalty Islands, from Mr. P. Possiter, 

 and also specimens from Cardwell, on the North-east Coast of 

 Queensland, a habitat which Mr. Brazier has also corroborated. 



33*#* Pythia ovata, Pfeiffer. 



Pythia ovata, Pfr., in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society 

 of London, 1854, p. 299 ; Pfr. in Cat. Brit. Mus. Auriculidrc, 

 1857, p. 67; Pfr., in Mon. Auriculaceorum, 1876, p. 342; H. 

 and A. Adams, Genera Pecent Mollusca, Vol. ii., p. 239-240, 1858; 

 Neville, in Enumeratio Heliceorum et Pnaumonoporum Insula) 

 Ceylon adhuc detectorum, 1871, p. 4 ; Piitel, in Cat. der Conch., 

 1873, p. 114 ; Neville, in Hand List of Moll, in Indian Mus. at 

 Calcutta, 1878, p. 222. 



Scarabus ovatus, in Peeve, Cone. Icon. Sp. 13, pi. ii., fig. 13, 

 1860. 



