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years been labelled (in Angas’ handwriting) Columbella tessellata, 
Gask., and shells have been pretty widely distributed among collectors 
under this name. 
The main features of the literary history of Buccinum dermestoideum 
may be tabulated as follows :— 
1822, Aug. ‘‘ Buccinum dermestoideum”: J. P. B. de Lamarck, Hist. 
nat, Anim. s. V ert., vol. vil, p. 275 [no fig. ]. 
1834. ‘* Buceinum dermestoideum, Lam.” : L. C. Kiener, Spec. gén. 
Coq. viv., Buccinum, sp. 51, pl. xxv, fig. | fair | 100. 
1844. ‘ Col. der mestoides . Bueem. dermestoides, Kiener ” 
G. B. Sowerby 1, Thes. Conch., Columbella, sp. 58, p. 181, 
pl.cxxaix, fig. [poor] 123. 
[?] 1851, Dec. 25. Colombella dermestoides, Lam.: S. Petit de la 
Saussaye, Journ. Conchyl., vol. ii, p. 429 [name only, as 
coming from Guadeloupe }. 
1853, Oct. ‘* Amyela dermestoidea, Lam.”’: H. & A. Adams, Genera 
Ree. Moll., vol. i, p. 187 [name only |. 
1858, Nov. ‘‘ Columbella dermestoides . . . Buccinum dermestoides, 
Kiener”: L. A. Reeve, Conch. Icon., Columbella, sp. 144 
fig. poor ]. 
1859. a [Am ycla | dermestoidea (Buceinum), Lamarck”: J.C.Chenu, 
Man. Conchyl., vol. i, p. 202 [name only ], fig. [ good] 1099. 
1865, Jan. 24. ‘‘ Co lumbella (Mtrella) dermestoides. Buceinum der- 
mestoides, Kiener’’: G. F, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1865, 
p. 167 [no fig. ]. 
1867, Feb. 14. ‘‘ Columbella (Amycla) dermestoides. Columbella der- 
mestoides, Kiener”?: G. F. Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1867, 
p. 195 [no fig. ]. 
1868. ‘* Columbella (Amycla) dermestoides, Kiener”: J. C. Cox, 
Land & Mar. Shells Austral., p. 6 [name only ]. 
1871, Aug. 1. ‘‘ Columbella maculosa, Pse. [n.n. for C. dermestoides, 
Ang., non Lam.|]”: W.H. Pease, Amer. Journ. Conch., 
vol. vii, pp. 21-2 [no fig. ]. 
1877, Feb. Columbella lineolata, Pease, non C. dermestoides, Kien. : 
J. Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soe. New South Wales, vol. i, p. 231 
no fig. |. 
1877, Mar. 6. BF sunballe lineolata, Pease: G. F. Angas, Proc. Zool. 
Soc., 1877, p. 182 [no fig. ]. 
1878, Nov. 5. Columella [ sic | lineolata, Pease: G. F. Angas, Proc. 
Zool. Soc., 1878, p. 865 [name only ]. 
1883. Columbella (Amycla) dermestoidea, Lam.: G. W. Tryon, Syst. 
Conch., vol. ii, p. 179, pl. lvi, fig. [fair] 89. 
1883, July 18. ‘C. [Co olumbella (Mitrella) | dermestoides, Kiener” : 
G. W. Tryon, Man. Conch., vol. v, p. 131, pl. xlix, fig. 
[copies Kiener | 25. 
1883, July 18. ‘ C.{ Columbella (Mitrella) | lineolata (Pease), Brazier” 
G. W. Tryon, Man. Conch., vol. v, p. 1388, pl. hi, fig. 
poor | 53. 
1889, Apr. “ Colwmbella lineolata, Pease (Brazier) = C. dermestordes, 
Angas”: J. Brazier, Journ. Conch., vol. vi, pp. 67-8 [no fig. |. 
