14 MARINE SHELLS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
species from the Cape, but it is common in various localities, 
from Madagascar eastward. 
Purpura cinauLata, Linné (Buccinum), Reeve, Conch. 
Icon. fig. 76.—Cape, Natal coast, and Port Elizabeth. This 
curious species appears to be peculiar to the South African 
coast. 
Purpura CaTaracta, Chemnitz(Buccinum), Reeve, Conch. 
Icon., Purpura, sp. 40.—Port Elizabeth, Simon’s Bay, &c. 
PurPURA CAPENsIs, Petit, Journ. de Conch. 1852, pl. 7, 
fig. 6; Kuster, Purpura, pl. 23a, fig. 6. See Journ. of 
Conch. vol. v. p. 7.—Having seen an undoubted specimen of 
Purpura luteostoma collected at Port Elizabeth by Mr. 
Crawford, I am not sure that this is not a variety of the 
same, although, taking the typical forms, the differences are 
very great. 
PuRPURA LUTEOSTOMA, Deshayes, Lamarck, tom. x. p. 98; 
Reeye, Conch. Icon. sp. 35.—Port Elizabeth (Crawford). 
PuRPURA SCOBINA, Quoy, Zool. Voy. Astrolabe, pl. 38, 
figs. 19-21.—-Port Elizabeth. See Journ. of Conch, vol. vi. 
p. 148. 
Purpura TRIGONA, Reeve, Conch. Icon. Purpura, sp. 53. 
—Port Elizabeth. 
PURPURA MANCINELLA, Lamarck, Reeve, Conch. Icon. 
pl. 2, fig. 7.—Natal coast (Kranss). This species, common 
in the Indian Ocean and East Indian Archipelago, I have 
not met with from the Cape. 
Purpura BurFo, Lamarck, Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. 2, 
fig. 7.—Natal coast (Krauss). I bave had this common 
species from China, Philippines, Travancore, and Madagascar, 
but not yet from South Africa. 
Purpura ZEYHERI, Krauss, Wiegmann’s Archiv fiir Natur. 
1852, p. 35.—Cape Coast (Krauss). This species is unknown 
to me. 
Purpura persica, Lamarck, Reeve, Conch. Icon. pl. 2, 
fig. 7.—Natal coast (Krauss). 
Purpura Rupourut, Lamarck, Reeve, Conch. Icon. fig. 10. 
—Natal coast (Krauss). 
