240 



Desh. ed. Lam. Anim. sans Vert, x, 454, 1844. Sowb., 

 Thes. Conch, i, 390, pi. 76, f. 143, 144, 1846. 



Caribbean ; Bahamas to Guadeloupe. 



M. LACTEA, Reeve, is M. subtriplieata. Orb. 



M. L^vis, Desh., is Erato Icevis (Don.) 



94. M. Largillieri, Kiener, Coq. Viv. p. 43, pi. 11, f. 3, 



? 1840. 

 Desh. ed. Lara. Anim. sans Vert, x, 455, 1844. Sowb., 

 Thes. Conch, i, 402, pi. 78, f. 178—180, 1846. Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon. Marginella, pi. 6, f. 22, a, b, 1864. 



Bahia, Brazil. 



95. M. Lavalleana,* Orb., Mollusques de Cuba, pi. 20, f. 36 



—38, date ? 

 31. minima, Guilding, ined. Sowb., Thes. Conch, i, 388, pi. 



78, f. 220, 1846. 

 31. Lavalleana, Orb., Moll, de Cuba, text, ii, 101, 1853. 



Reeve, Conch. Icon. Marginella, pi. 27, f. 133, 1865. 



Caribbean ; Jamaica to St. Vincents. 



96. M- Lefevrei, Bernardi, Journ. de Conch, iv, 360, pi. 12, 



f. 11, 12, 1853. Hah. unhwivn. 



97. M. lepida (Gould). 



Glabella lepida, Gould, Proc. Bost. Nat. Hist. Soc. vii, 384, 

 Dec, 1860. Gould, Otia Conchologica, p. 139, 1862. 



China Sea. 



98. M. lilacina, Sowb., Thes. Conch, i, 402, pi. 78, f. 176, 



177, 1846. 

 Reeve, Conch. Icon. Marginella, pi. 14, f. 60, a, b, 1864. 



J£ab. unknoivn. 



99. M. limbata, Lam. 



Mus. Gottwald. pi. 25, f. 169, a, b, d, 1782. 



Encycl. Meth. pi. 376, f. 2, a, 3, b, 1798. 



31. limhata, Lam., Anim. sans Vert. 1st ed. vii, 356, 1822. 



Defrance, Diet, des Sci. Nat. xxix, 142, 1823. Kiener, 



Coq. Viv. p. 9, pi. 2, f. 6, 1834. Desh., ed. Lam. Anim. 



sans Vert, x, 438, 1844. Sowb., Thes. Conch, i, 376, 



* The plates of Ramon de la Sagra's Cuba, of which d'Orbigny's Mollus- 

 ques form a part, were published iu fasciculi without date, before the ap- 

 pearance of the text. In such cases authors justly forfeit right of priority 

 over names published under open dates. In this instance Sowerby, in 

 1846, quotes Orbigny's M. Lavalleana as a synonym. On this ground 

 only do I infer that it is older than Gnilding's name, which had hitherto 

 been unedited. I am not without suspicion that this species is identical 

 with Pfeiffer's M. minuta, from Cuba.'' Whether the Mediterranean shell 

 which passes under that name be the same, I cannot decide. 



