274 Mr. L. Reeve on the Synonymy of 



with almost the appearance of a fourth. In the specimen figured 

 by Gualtieri, these appear to be exaggerated in the drawing, 

 and may have suggested to Linnaeus the notion of the species 

 being four-plaited. Another circumstance in favour of this 

 shell being the Linnsean Voluta OUa is, that the only specimen 

 among the Linnsean types in the possession of the Linnsean 

 Society that can be referred to it is the species before us ; and 

 upon examining Linnseus^s own working copy of the ' Systema/ 

 I find against V. OUa the ink-score corresponding with that on 

 the specimen — both in Linnseus's hand-writing. 



Subgenus 2. Melo, Broderip. 



9. Cymbium [Melo) athiopicum, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. p. 1195; 

 Conch. Icon. pi. 1. f. 1 a, and pi. 2. f. 1 Z>, c. 



Voluta athiopica, Linnaeus. 



nautica, Linnaeus. 



Cymbium coronatum, Klein. 



eeramicum, Petiver. 



cethiopicum, Schumacher. 



Melo cEthiopica, Broderip. 

 nautica, Broderip. 



Hab. Eastern Seas. 



Two Linnsean and Lamarckian species, Voluta athiopica and 

 V. nautica, are included under this head, the latter being merely 

 a variety of the former in which the scales are decumbent. 

 Dr. Gray appears to have been the first to unite them. 



10. Cymbium {Melo) regium, Schubert and Wagner, Conch. Cab, 

 vol. xii. p. 13, pi. 318. f. 3038, 3039; Conch. Icon. pi. 3. 

 f. 2 a, b, and pi. 4. f. 2 c, d. 



Voluta regia, Schubert and Wagner. 



Hab. Eastern Seas. 



In the fine collection of Cymbia in the British Museum, which 

 includes the Broderipian collection, may be readily separated a 

 series of very characteristic specimens mixed with specimens of 

 C. cethiopicum, which appear to me to be distinct ; and I have 

 no hesitation in assigning them to the Voluta regia of Schubert 

 and Wagner, described and figured in their Supplement to the 

 ' Conchylien Cabinet.' Broderip gave the name of regius to the 

 C. Broderipii described by Gray in Griffith's ' Cuvier's Animal 

 Kingdom,' thinking probably that Schubert and Wagner's figure 

 represented that species ; but no light has been thrown on it by 

 subsequent monographers of the genus. Dr. Gray gives a co- 

 pious and tolerably accurate list of synomyms in his monograph 



