608 NOMENCLATURE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE GENUS PYTHIA, 



Habitat. Philippine Islands, Pfr. and Reeve, on the authority 

 of Cuming. Island of Java, Zollingen. Borneo, A. Adams. 

 Celebes, Pfr., in Brit. Mus. Cat. Auric., Nueniona, Pease, in 

 Pro. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 477. 



It is extremely difficult to arrive at the rights of this species 

 described first as 8. pantherina, in 1850 by Adams, the name is 

 continued by Pfeiffer in his Monographs of 1856-57, and 1876, and 

 under the same name by Adams in 1858. In 1875 Pfeiffer in 

 his Brit. Mus. Cat. Aric, claims Peeve's species S.pyramidatus 

 as described and figured by Kuster, as a synonym of this species 

 pantherina, in other words, that Kuster has given a figure of 

 Adam's species pantherinato represent Peeve's species pyramidatus 

 Then Pfeiffer makes out that his variety B. of this species 

 pantherina has been figured again by Kuster to represent 

 Ferussac's species petiverinanus. I must confess that the two 

 species petiverianus Per., and pyramidatus, Peeve, as figured by 

 Kuster and claimed by Pfeiffer as a variety of each other require 

 a great stretch of imagination to believe that they represent 

 one species, especially if the figures of Kuster's are compared 

 with the figures of Peeve of these species. 



35** Pythia peeovata, Garrett. 



Pythtaperovata, Garrett, in the American Journal of Conchology, 

 Vol. vii., part 4, p. 221, pi. 19, fig. 5, 1871-1872. Pfr., in 

 Monagraphise Auriculaceorum, p. 340, 1876. Schmeltz, in Cat. 

 Museum Godeffroy, V., p. 87, 1874. 



Habitat. Natawa Bay and Na Viti Levu Bay, Viti Island, 

 Garrett — "Abundant, inhabiting the margins of the Mangrove 

 Swamps." 



36* Pytuia petiveriana, Ferussac. 



Referred to by Kuster as " Petiver Gyzophylacii, Naturao et 

 artis, 1702 to 1711, pi. 4, fig. 10." I presumo figured in that 

 work but not described. 



