314 PROCEEDINGS OF THE MALACOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



LiGuus (Hemibulimus) Dennisoni (Keeve). 

 Achatina Dennisoni, Reeve: Conch. Icon., vol. v, pi. ix, fig. 32; 



Pfeiffer, Monog. Hel., vol. iii, p. 486. 

 Orthaliciis {Corona) Dennisoni, Pfeilfer: Nomenclator Hcl.,Viv., p. 259. 

 Achatina magnifica, Reeve {non Pfr.) : op. cit., pi. ix, fig. 33. 

 Ligmis {Eemihuliynus) magnificus (Reeve) {non Pfr.): Pilsbry, Man. 



Conch., ser. ii, vol. xii, p. 185, pi. xxxvir/, fig. 30 (figs. 



31-34 = var. excisus, Martens). 



Pilsbry's statement that his figure 30 "represents Pfeifl'er's type" 

 is incorrect, as that species was described from specimens in the 

 Cuming Collection, now in the British Museum (see Pfeiffer, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, 1847, pp. 228, 232). 



The synonymy of the true Achatina magnifica is as follows : — 



LiGtJus (Hemibulimus) magnificus (Pfr.). 

 Achatina magnifica, Pf eiffer : Proc. Zool. Soc, 1847, p. 232. 

 Orthalicus {Corona) magnificus, Pf eiffer : Nomenclator Hel., Viv., 

 p. 259 (excluding reference to Reeve's figure). 



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It is curious that Pf eiffer did not perceive that Reeve's A. magni- 

 fica was not the same species as that which he himself had originally 

 described. He may have been misled by Reeve's statement that there 

 was " also a specimen in the possession of Mr. Cuming." As the true 

 A. magnifica has never been illustrated, I now give a figure of it. 



