243 



31arg. miliaria, (var. excl.) Sowb. Thcs. Concli. i, 399, pi. 



78, f. 230, (not 227-229) 1846. Orb, Prodroinus iii, 170, 



1852. Reeve, Conch, Icon. Mavginella pi. 27, f. 154, 



(bad) 1865. "VVeinkauflF, Conch, des Mittelmcercs ii, 20, 



1868. Eastern Atlantic, from Cadiz to Canary 1. ; 



Mediterranean, from Gribralter to Egypt. Also fossil in Post 



Pliocene, Upper and Middle Tertiary of Southern Europe. 



M. MiNixMA, Sowb., ex Guilding is M. Lavalleana, Orb. 



111. M. minor, C. B. Ad., Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist, v, 264, 



June 1852. 

 C. B. Ad., Panama Shells p. 40, Aug. 1852. Carpenter, 

 Cat. Mazatlan Shells, p. 461, 1857. Reeve, Conch. 

 Icon. Marginella pi. 27, f. 152, 1865. 

 Pacific Coast of Central America, from 31azatlan to Panama. 



112. M. minuta, Pfr.,* Wiegmann's Archiv. i, 259, 1840. 

 Phil., Moll. Sicil. ii, 197, pi. 27, f. 23, 1844. Weinkauff, 



Conch, des Mittelmeere ii, 21, 1868. 

 Mediterranean ; Algeria to Syria, also fossil in Post Pliocene 

 of Southern Europe. 



113. M. monilis, (Linn.) 



? Simeri, Adanson, Senegal, p. 79, pi. 5, f. 3, 1757. 



Voluta monilis, Linn., Sjst. Nat. 10th ed. p. 730, No. 353, 



1758. Linn., Syst. Nat. 12th ed. p. 1189, 1769. Mar- 

 tini, Conch, ii, 42, f. 426, 1773. 

 Voluta monilis. Born, Mus. p, 219, 1780. Schroeter, Ein- 



leitung i, 209, 1783. (var. excl.) Gmel., Syst. Nat. p. 



3444, 1788. Schreibers, Conch, i, 114, 1793. Dillw., 



Desc, Cat. p. 524, 1817. 

 Volvaria monilis, Lam., Anim. sans Vert. 1st ed. vii, 363, 



1822. 

 Marg. monilis, Blainv., Malac. pi. 27, f. 3, 1827. Kiener, 



Coq. Yiv. p. 18, pi. 6, f. 23, 1834. 

 Volvaria monilis, Wyatt, Man. Conch, pi. 29, f. 3, (bad) 1838. 



Desh. ed. Lam. sans Vert, x, 459, 1844. 

 ? Marq. monilis, Sowb.,t Thes. Conch, i, 388, pi. 76, f. 117, 



118, 1846. 



*See note under M. Lavalleana. 



t Petit sees in Sowerby's figure and description sufficient ground to 

 exclude them from the synonymy of this species, and proposes to separate 

 Sowerby's shell under the nam.e Soverhyana. In revising the somewhat 

 perplexing figures which have been given of monilis, I find Sowerby's 

 figures as near the truth as most others. As to the habitat I am in doubt. 

 Linnaeus refers the species to China. JNIost authors ascribe it to Senegal, 

 but Petit denies that it occurs there, though he admits that Sowerby's 



