556 REPORT — 18G3. 



In the P. Z. S. 18G1, pp. 145-lSl, is the first part of the lonp-expecfea 

 *' lie view of the VennetUUe,"^ by Otto A. L. iloieh. The species of the 

 AVest Coast are arranged us follows : — 



Stcphopomn peiinafum, ^llkch, pi. 25. f. P>~8. | Eealt jo. on Callop-.via 

 Stcphopoma p<-uiui(u)H, !-'vsr.ii'.s/y//«w(/,pl.:?5.f.9,10. | and ('nicihu/iiin. 

 aiphiDiiiim (Ih'udn poma) mri/dniastuin, Mcireh, pi. 25. f. 12, 1^. "rCflli- 

 foruia ; burrowing iu Huliotis nudosus, live." \)\{iX, a Califoruiim 

 species.] 

 ,, SiphoHiutn {Dendropoma) megamashnn, var. centiqi/adra, Moroh. 



'■ =Aletes ccHtiquddnis, var. inibn'cafiis. !Muz. Cat. p. oU2," Morch fnon 

 Cpr.]. California, burrowing in ILdiotk xplcndens [a strictly Callfor- 

 niau species, not found on the Me.xican coa<t"j. 

 154 6. Siphonium (Dcndn/poma) litiieHa. yiiJrch. California; deeply imbedded 

 in Haliotia splemhns; Mus. Ciini. 

 ? = .Stoa ammonitiformis, M. de SeiTes. 



ssS/)irotf/i/pftus, sp., Cpr., B. A. Report, p. .124. . [Found on shells from 

 AVashington Ter. to Cape St. Lucas (also S(X'oro Is., Xanfii^) : but it 

 has not been observed on the Mexican or Central American coast.] 

 1G4 20. Siphonium 7)tfi)\t/anf(irinn,\ ill. I'anama, J'id.; Mazatlan, i?t'jV/^7(. 



177 36. f 



" =iAletes mar<i(inturum, Maz. Cat. p. .30.'}," [teste Morch, uon Cpr.*], 

 Wtiiicidus pe/litridiif, lirod. and Shy., pi. 25. f. 17-20. 

 Var. a. pUinorboides = fk-rpiita reyuluris, Chenu. Huh. ? — ^ on fMarffuri- 

 tifera. Miis. Cum. 

 ,, \ax. aa. hiquearis. W. Columbia. Oo/iw//. 

 173 .. Xar. ^. ciniKDiiomina. W. Cohunbia, CtDning. 

 ,, ,, Var. -y. vdluhilis, Miinh, pi. 25. f. 18, 19.= Veniiefus ehurneus, Iive.,= 



V. lumhrirnlis. Knight. Hab. ? — . Mus. Cum. 

 ti •• Var. S. vohibilis {iididtd) picta, Miirch, = Verm, ebumriis, Alaz. Cat. 

 p. ;5()4. W. Columbia, Vumiiig ; Puntarenas, Oersted, Jourii. 

 Conch, viii. p. 80. 

 t« It Var. (. craMd, Morch, = Ser]). Pannmoisis, Chen. 111. pi. 10. fijr. 5 = 

 Vermicidus ehurneus, Miiivh, Joiu'u. Conch, viii. ."50. I'uniareiuii, 

 Oersted. " Fos-il at Newburn, N.C.," Xuttall |_te-te Miirch]. 



179 .. \&T. ^. ti(irina,yVovd\\. W. Columbia, CwHfi"////. 



. . t . Var. r). castanea, Miirch. On Murex melanoleucus, Morch. 

 . , . . Operculum : W. Columbia, Cumiiuj. 



.. Var. 1, from var. h.= Vermetus Ilindsii, Gray, Add. Gen. fig. ?8, a, h, 

 Puntarenas, Oer.ited. 



180 . . Var. 2, di^rifer, from var. 8. Puntarenas, Oersted. 

 , , . , Var. .'{, from var. t. PI. 25. f. 17. 



Var. 4, imbqrano^a, from var. r). Puntarenas, Oersted. 



181 38. Vermiculm efusns, Vid., = " Vit-metus e., Val." Chen. 111. pl. 5. fig. 4, 



ac. =iiipho)iium e., Chen. Man. fig. 2801. " Fig. 4 of Chen, t is 

 from specimen figured in Voy. Ven. as V. ceiitiqiiadrKS." 

 In the second part of Miirch's " lleview of the Vermttidie,'^ lS(il, pp. 

 326-305, occur the following. A portion of the genus Bivonia is united to 

 Spiroyhjphus. Petaloconchiis, AJetes, and part of Bivonia are united to V>-r- 

 vietiis, Mcirch (non auct.). " e name Aletes appears to he used in a varietal 

 sense, in no respect according with the subgenus as jribed by the author. 



* I was perhaps wrong in referring the Mazatlan shells to Val.'s species ; but if Jlr. 

 Morch is right in liis own determination, the Mazatlan synonyniy and localitv must be 

 expunged. There was no evidence of a typical Siphonium whenttie Reigen Catalogue was 

 publislied, nor have I st>en such from the whole coast, unless ^h' minute operculinn h, 

 Brit. Mus. Col., tablet 2537, be supposed the young. M6rch says, " the lid is unknown.' 

 The operculum of tlie similar Mazatlan species, on wliich the subgenus Aletes was 

 founded, is deijcribed in Maz. Cat. p. 302. 



t " Cpr.'s observations n^specting Chenu'g plates (Maz. Cat. p. 306. hn. IS) are in part 

 erroneous, it being overlooked that Chenu has two plates marked ' V.' ;" note *, p. ^w, . 



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