66 SMITH : RECEXT SPECIES OF THE GENUS PIRULA, LAMARCK. 



terms Ficiis, Klein 1753, Fictis, Rousseau 1846, Sycotypus, H. and A. 

 Adams 1853 (non Sycotypus, Browne 1756) and Otits, Risso 1826 

 must also be rejected. They are either prelinnean, preoccupied, or 

 proposed after the genus " Pynila " was definitely limited. 



2. Pirula papyracea, Say. 



Pyrula papyratia, Say. J. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philad., vol. ii., p. 238 



(June 1822). 

 Pyrula papyratia, Tryon. Man. Conch., vol. vii., p. 266, pi. vi., f. 35. 

 Pyrula papyracea, Sowerby. Conchologist, vol. ii., p. 74. 

 Pyrula reticulata, Lamarck. Hist. Anim. sans Vert., vol. vii., p. 141 



(August 1822). 

 Pyrula reticulata, Deshayes. P^ncy. Meth. vers., vol. iii., p. 808, 



pi. 432, f. 2. 

 Pyrula reticulata, Sowerby. Genera, pi. 221, fig. i. 

 Pyrula reticulata, Kiener. Icon. Coq. Viv., p. 28, pi. xii., f. i. 

 Pyrula reticulata (partim), Kobelt. Conch. Cab., ed. 2, p. 7, pi. i, 

 figs. 4, 5 ; lUus. Conchylienbuch, pi. xxvi., f. 16. 

 Ficus ventricosa (partim), Rousseau in Chenu's 111. Conch., pi. ii., f. 2. 

 Jun. = Ficus clathrata, Rousseau. Op. cit., pi. ii., figs. 3-3i. 

 Ficula gracilis, Phihppi. Zeitsch. f. Malak., 1848, p. 97. 

 Ficula gracilis, Kobelt. Conch. Cab., p. 12, pi. 2, figs, i, 2. 

 Pyrula Jortior, Morch. Mai. Blat., 1S77, p. 43. 



Hab. : Gulf of Mexico, Florida, Campeche (Philippi) ; Georgia 

 and E. Florida (Say) ; British Honduras (Brit. Mus.). 



AVhat is the Pyrula reticulata of Lamarck ? That author, 

 Deshayes and Kiener consider it distinct from the P. ficoides. On 

 the contrary, Reeve, Kobelt, Tryon, and G. B. Sowerby (1892) have 

 united them or considered them as varieties of one and the same 

 species. 



After a careful consideration of the original diagnosis, and the 

 description given by Deshayes and Kiener from Lamarck's type, also 

 the figures in the Encyclopedic Methodique and in Kiener's work> 

 I am of opinion that not only is P. reticulata distinct from F. ficoides, 

 but that it is the same form as that previously named P. papyratia by 

 Say, and afterwards P. gracilis by Philippi. 



The size, four inches, considerably exceeds that of average speci- 

 mens of P. ficoides, although that species at times does attain that 

 length, and the colouration is quite different. P. reticulata is a pale 

 whitish shell, with very feeble light-brown S[)Otting upon the principal 

 transverse ridges, and the aperture is brownish far within, becoming 

 whitish towards the outer lip. On the contrary, P. ficoides is a 

 species exhibiting a considerable amount of variegation in colour. 



