Notes on the Collection 37 



multicostatus, Esch. Finmark. 

 muricatus, Mtg. Britain 



nodifera, Powis. Gulf of California 



orpheus, Gould. Vancouver Is. 



pachy raphe, Smith. Japan 

 petterdi, Crosse. Tasmania 

 philippianus, Dunker. Falkland Is. 



scalariformis, Gould. Spitzbergen 

 spiratus, A. Ad. New Zealand 

 strangeri, Gray. New Zealand 



triangulatus, Cpr. California (very rare) 

 truncatus, Strom. Britain 



vaginatus, Jouss. Sicily 



xanthostomus, Brod. 



Besides which one notes the interesting genera 

 Pseudomurex (P. lamellosus, Phil, and meyendorffi,, 

 Calc.) and Typhis (T. tetrapterus, Bronn and yatesi, 

 Crosse, the latter quite rare) ; here also are TJrosalpinx, 

 Eupleura, seventy-five species of Purpura, over twenty 

 of Ricinula, together with Iopas, Monoceros, Chorus, 

 Concholepas, Cuma, Rapana, Coralliophila, Melapium, 

 Rapa, Magilus, etc. 



The fossil Ecphora quadricostata from the Virginia 

 Miocene is noteworthy; and beside it the strangely 

 similar and remarkable recent shell Latiaxis mawae from 



