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SYNONYMY OF MARINE GASTEROPODiE INHABITING 



POLYNESIA. 



BY WM. HARPER PEASE. 



The following synonyms are such as I have detected in study- 

 ing out the history of Polynesian mollusca. 



Those that are well known and generally admitted, determined 

 by M. Deshayes and others, are omitted. The distribution and 

 variation of the species are reserved for a future paper. 



I have not been able to determine the synonymy of all the 

 species described by Dr. Mighels in Proc. Boston Soc. 1845, 

 as I cannot learn that any of them are preserved in collections, 

 his own types having been destroyed by fire. 



Several MS names, attached to specimens, I sent to London 

 for identification, accompanied with descriptions for publication 

 if new, have been published as synonyms, without my knowledge. 

 They are not included in the following list. A number of the 

 species described by the late Dr. Gould in Report Am. Ex. Ex., 

 have been identified for me by himself, and I have received 

 other specimens from the "Smithsonian " named by Dr. P. P. 

 Carpenter and II. Cuming. Such of the Cumingian species as 

 I have collected in Polynesia have been examined by Mr. Cu- 

 ming. Polynesian localities are so numerous and isolated, that 

 it requires large numbers of specimens to trace out the synonymy 

 and variation of the species. I submit the following, therefore, 

 not as decisive, but as an attempt to correct a few of the nume- 

 rous errors that exist in their names. 



Murex Garrettii, Pse. 



1857. Murex exlguus, Garr., Proc. Califor Acad. vol. i, p. 102. 



Name preoccupied, changed as above. Since described, a spe 

 cimen nearly perfect has been found. Its color is dusky brown, 

 transverse grooves reddish. Varices five in number. 



