44 JAPANESE MOLLUSK8, MURICID^. 



Rapana bezoar var. thomasiana Crosse. Crosse, Journ. de Conchyl., 1861, p. 268, 

 pi. 9, 1(1. (iv. fhoitiasiana). 



Markets of Yokohama and Tokyo, a food mollusk (Stearns), 



Rapana bulbosa Solander. Tryon, Man. Vol. II, p. 20."?, pi. l.viii, f. 336. 



Japan (Dkr.) ; Yokohama Bay (Stearns), 

 Rapana (Latiaxis) mawae Gray. Japan (Dkr.). 

 Rapana (Latiaxis) deburghise Reeve. Dkr., Index, pi. 1, f. 5-7. 



Japan (Dkr.). 

 Rapana (Latiaxis) lischkeana Dkr. Index, p. 43, pi. ], f. 1, 2; pi. 13, f. 26, 27, 



Japan (Dkr.), 

 Rapana (Latiaxis) japonica Dkr. Index, p. 43, pi. 13, f. 24, 25. 



Inland Sea of Japan (Dkr.). 

 Rapana (Latiaxis) sallei Jouss. Bull. Soc. Zool. Franoe, 18S3, p. 187, pi. 10, f. 3. 



Japan Coast. 

 Purpura rudolpbi Chemn. C. Icon., f. 10. 



Japan (Dkr,), 



Purpura persica Linn. Japan (Stearns). 



Purpura luteostoma (Chemn.) Dillw. Chemn., Conchyl. Cab., XI, p. 83, pi. 187, f. 

 1800, 1801 ((Jood). 



Seta coast and Saruga coast (Stearns); Hakodate, Yedo (Lischke); 

 Deshima (Dkr,), 



Purpura hronni Dkr. (Moll, Jap,, pi. 1, f, 23) is a rather short 

 specimen, not completely mature. See also Lischke, J, M, C, I, pi. 

 5, f. 17, and II, pi. 4, f. 20. (Nagasaki, Tatiyama, Deshima), 



Purpura echinata Blainv. C. Icon., sp. 33. 



Deshima (Nuhn) ; Nagasaki (Lischke), 



Purpura heyseana Dkr. Index, p. 40, pi. 13, f. 10, 11. 

 Sea of Japan (Dkr.). 



Purpura alveolata Reeve. (+P, davigera Kiist,, tumulosa Lischke). Lischke, 

 J. M. C, I, p. .'•,4, pi. 5, f. 12-16 ; Vol. JI, p. 39. 



Kamakura, I. of Oki, Boshiu, Seta coast (Stearns) ; Ooshima 

 (Challenger; St, John) ; Nagasaki (Lischke); Deshima (Dkr.). 



Another synonym is P. prohlematica Baker (Proc, Rochester 

 Acad. Sciences I, 1891, p, 135, pi. 11, f, 2, 3), So involved and dif- 

 ficult is the literature of this group of Purjmra that we do not ven- 

 ture to say what the ultimate specific designation of the Japanese 

 forms will be. There can be little doubt that all of Lischke's figures 



