251 



151. M. Poucheti,* Petit, Journ. de Conch, ii, 40, pi. 1, f. 3, 



l^^r)l. West Africa. 



152. M. pruinosa, Hinds, Proc. Lond. Zool. Soc. 1844, p. 74, 



1844. 

 Sowb., Thes. Conch, i, 898, pi. 76, f. Ill, 1846. Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon. Marginella, pi. 18, f. 88, 1865. 



West Indies (Hinds, Sowb. and Reeve.) 



"153. M. prunum (Gmel.) 



Martini, Conch, ii, 110, pi. 42, f. 422, 423, (good) 1773. 

 Voluta No. 97, Schroeter, Einleitung i, 269, 1783. 

 Voluta prunum, Gmel., ed. Sjst. Nat. p. 3446, (in part) 1788. 



Encycl. Meth. Vers. pi. 376, f. 8, a, b, 1798. 

 Voluta plumbea, Solander, ined. quoted by Dillwyn. 



" prunum, Dillwyn, Descr. Cat. p. 530, 1817. 

 Marginella coerulescens. Lam. Anim. sans Vert. 1st ed. vii, 



356, 1822. Defrance, Diet, des Sci. Nat. xxix, 142, 



1823. 

 Voluta prunum. Wood, Index Testae, pi. 20, f. 68, 1828. 

 M. coprulescetis, Desh., Encyc. Meth. Vers, ii, 411, 1830. 



Kiener, Coq. Viv. p. 13, pi. 1, f. 4, 1834. 

 (var.) 31. glans, Menke, Synops, Meth. Mollusc, p. 146, 1836. 

 M. coerulescens, Reichenbach, Conch, p. 62, pi. 37, f. 526, 



527, (figs, reversed) 1842. Catlow, Popular Conch, p. 



250, (wood cut) 1843. Desh., ed. Lam. Anim. sans Vert. 



X, 437, 1844. Sowb., Thes. Conch, i, 383, pi. 77, f. 153, 



154, 1846. Orb., Moll, de Cuba ii, 96, 1853. Berge, 



Conchylienbuch p. 240, pi. 42, f. 4, 1855. 

 M. prunum, Reeve, Conch. Icon. Marginella, pi. 11, f. 45, a, 



b, 1864. Kuster, Syst. Conch. Cab. v, part 4, pi. 1*, f. 



9, 1865. 

 M. subcoerulea'f of some Catalogues. 

 Caribbean ; Jamaica to Gruadaloupe, and Cartagena to Curaeoa ! 



154. M. pseudo-faba, Sowb., Proc. Lond., Zool. Soc. 1846, 

 p. 96. 

 Sowb., Thes. Conch, i, 374, pi. 74, f. 21, 22, 1846. 

 31. f aba, (not Linn.) Chenu, Lecons. Element, p. 217, f. 720, 



* Nearly allied to 31. glabella, but seems distioct. 



t This species is often cataloofued as 31. subca-ridea. Martini. A refer- 

 ence to Martini ii, p. 1U2, will show that the name is there employed only 

 as an explanatory phrase, and in no wise deserves precedence as a scien- 

 tific binomial. Another specimen of the same species is in the same 

 passage called alhida, with just as good reason for acceptance ! As to the 

 erroneous statements regarding its habitat, growing out of Gmeliu"s con- 

 founding two species, see Am. Journ. Conch, v, 90. 



