NOTES AND EXHIBITS. 



Mr. Brazier read the following "Note on the Linnean Murex 

 corneus found living on the coast of the Island of New Caledonia, 

 South Pacific Ocean": — 



EuTHRiA CORNEA, Linn. 



1766. Murex corneus^lAmi. Syst. Nat. ed, 12, p. 1224, No. 565. • 

 1791. Murex corneus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. p. 3552, No. 97. 

 1822. Fusus lignarius, Lam. Anim. sans Vert. VII., p. 129, 



No. 24. 

 1832. Fusus lignarius, Kiener, Coq. Viv., Fusus, p. 43, No. 35, 



pi. 22, fig. 1. 

 1843. Fusus lignarius, Lam. Anim. sans Vert. 2nded. IX., 



p. 455, No. 24. 

 1847. Fusus lignarius, Reeve, Conch. Icon. IV., pi. 2, fig. 5. 

 1855. Murex corneus, Linn.; Hanley, Ipsa Linnsei Conch, pp. 



305-525. 

 1855. Euthria lignaria, H. & A. Adams, Genera of Moll. I., 



p. 86, pi. 9, fig. 7b. 

 1869. Fusus corneus, Linn.; Petit dela Saussaye, Catalogue des 



Mollusques Testaces des Mers d'Europe, p. 161. 

 1881. Euthria cornea, Linn.; Tryon, Manual of Conch. III., 



p. 149, pi. 72, fig. 218. 



" The beautiful shell exhibited was obtained alive by my kins- 

 man, Mr. R. C. Rossiter, at Wagap, East Coast of New Caledonia, 

 under the same stone with Pisania buccinulum, Martini ( = Pisania 

 ignea, Gmelin). The specimen is mottled and marbled all over with 

 dark brown and white, below the suture merging into a band on the 

 last whorl. The interior of the aperture is of a fine bright purple- 

 brown more inclined to dark violet ; it corresponds exactly with 

 the external figure given in Tryon's Manual, and the figure given 

 in Kiener's "Coq, Viv.;" but none of theui show such magnificent 



