518 REPORT—1863. 
No. Plate. Fig. 
43 13,14 inh Buccinum liratum, Mart. St. George’s Sound, most rare. [=F. de- 
cemcostatus (Say), Midd., eee aoe Cooper. | 
44 13 2. Buccinum plicatum, Mart. [non Linn.| St. George’s Sound, common. 
[=crispatum, + compositum, Chemn., =/actuca, &c., Esch. ] 
. Buccinum lima, Mart. St. George’s Sound, rare. [Probably P. decem- 
costata, Midd. ; the variety with numerous ribs and flattened spire. | 
. Buccinum saturum, Mart. St. George’s Sound, most rare. { Like 
Chr. liratus, with keels evanescent. | 
. Haliotis pulcherrima, Mart. St. George’s Sound, most rare. [Pacific 
s 
46 15 
. Purpura foliata, Mart. North-west Coast of N. America, rare. 
. Trochus pulligo, Mart. St. George’s Sound, common. 
. Pectunculus corbis, Mart. Pulo-Condore, most rare. [= Cardium Nut- 
tallit, Conr., teste Desh. Cum. The figure is not so accurate as most 
of the others; but the colouring is characteristic. ] 
153 53 1. Pecten rubidus, Mart. [non Hds.] Newfoundland, rare. [ =P. Islan< 
dicus, Miill. | 
Many of the figures of Martyn were reproduced by Chemnitz, in his com- 
prehensive continuation of Martini’s ‘ Conchylien Cabinet,’ 1780-1795. Un- 
happily, though often quoted for generic and specific names, he did not adopt 
the binomial nomenclature (except in vol. xi.), but described each shell in 
two or more words, as it happened. For this reason he appears to have had 
no scruple in altering previous designations, as follows :— 
> 
oO 
bo 
rs 
nee bo bn oo 
Fig. 
1538, 1539. Murex Purpura alata, “Mart. Conch. Un. vol. ii. £. 66, Leaved Purpura 
foliata from N.W. coast of America.” 
1634 .. Murex Glomus cereus, seu Cereus conglomeratus, “Mart. vol. ii. f. 43, 
Ridged Buccinum liratum from King George’s Sound.” 
Vign. 21, f. A,B. Buecinum compositum, “ Mart. Un. Conch. vol. ii. f. 44; Plaited 
Buecinum from King George’s Sound.” 
Vign. 23, f. A, B. Trochus gibberosus Nove Zelandie. “Forster’s Cat. no. 1374; La 
Raboteuse de la nouvelle Zélande.—Mart. Un. Conch. vol. i. f. 31; 
Rugged Trochus inequalis from Friendly Is.” 
1579, 1580. Trochus doliarius, “ Mart. vol. i. f.32, Fluted Zrochus canaliculatus from 
N. Zealand.” 
1581, 1582. Trochus virgineus, “ Favanne, Conch. pl. 79. f. 1. vol. ii. p. 342; id. Cat. 
Rais. no. 1352, p. 269; Le Sabot Magellanique.—Mart. Un. Conch, 
vol. i. f. 33; Ringed Zrochus annulatus from N. Zealand.—Cab. Mus. 
Portl. no. 1240; the Purpled-edged Trochus; item, no. 1970, a large 
and fine specimen of the Purple-edged Zrochus from the N.W. coast 
of 8001 rare.” [= 7. celatus, var. 8. Gmel., teste Dillw. vol. ii. 
1802, 1803. cectinit erispatum. ‘The furbelowed Whelk.” [=B. plicatum, 
Mart., non Ln. | 
1841, 1842. Murex amplustre. N.W. coast of America, [This erroneous locality 
is copied from the Portland Cat.. The species is quoted from Buc- 
cinum (Latirus) aplustre, Mart., no. 3, pl. 1, f. 8, where it is rightly 
assigned to the Friendly Is. =M. argus, var. y. Gmel., teste Dillw. 
vol, ii. p. 735. | ’ 
The assignment of West American species to New Zealand, begun by 
Martyn, has continued a source of error to the present time. It occurs in 
Dr. Gould’s ‘ Exploring Expedition Mollusca,’ in the Cumingian Collection, 
and in the British Museum. 
In the ‘Travels in New Zealand,’ by Ernest Dieffenbach, M.D., London, 
1843, vol. i. pp. 228-264, is given a “ Catalogue of the Species of Mollusca 
and their Shells, which have hitherto been recorded as found at New Zealand,” 
&c., by J. E. Gray. The author premises that some of the species [marked *] 
