310 Bvlletin Vanderbilt Marine Museum, Vol. VII 



Melo mucronatu^, Broderip, W. J., Spec. Conchyl., 1830, vol. I, 



pt. 1, p. 7. 

 Melo ducalis, Tryon, op. cit., p. 81. 

 Melo broderipii, Gray, J. E., in Griffith's edition of Cuvier, 



Regne Anim. Moll, pi. 24, 1833. 

 Cymbium broderipii, Gray, J. E., Brit. Mus. Cat. Moll., 1855, 



p. 7.— Reeve, L., Conch. Icon, 1860-62, vol. XCIII, pi. 5 of 



Cymbium and opposite page. 

 Cymbium ducale, Reeve, L., op. cit., pis. 7 and 8. 

 Melo georginae, Gray, J. E., op. cit., Cuvier, Moll. pi. 34. 

 Cymbium georginae, Gray, J. E., Brit. Mus. Cat. Moll,, 1855, p. 



7.— Reeve, Conch. Icon., 1862, vol. XIII, pis. 11, 12, and 13. 

 Cymbium diadema, Hedley, C, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 1907, 



vol. XXXII, p. 484. 



Melo diadema, Kesteven, H. L., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 1903, 



vol. XXVIII, p. 442 (neanic shell) . 

 Melo egg-capsules, Smith, E. A., Proc. Malacol. Soc. London, 1911, 



vol. IX, p. 4. 



Superfamily: TAENIOGLOSSA 

 Family: SEPTIDAE 



Genus: CYMATIUM Bolten 

 Cymatium nodiferum (Lamarck) 



Plate 120 



Type: This species, first figured by Lister (t. 960, f. 13), was 

 described by Lamarck, from specimens collected in the Mediter- 

 ranean Sea and deposited in the Jardin des Plantes. 



Distribution : This "triton" has its center of distribution in 

 the Mediterranean Sea, where it is known on both the European 

 and African coasts, also in the Adriatic and Aegean Seas ; west- 

 ward it is known in the North Atlantic Ocean to the Azores, along 

 the coasts of the Hispanic Peninsula, in the Bay of Biscay to Brest 

 and northward on the southern coast of England, where it has 

 been taken along the Guernsey coast, the Caskets and Channel 

 Isles. 



