■g'^Z SMITH : ON THE GENUS SCUTUS, 



Phannophorus breviculiis Sow. (non Blainv.) Chenu, Manuel 

 de Conch., vol. i., f. 2800. 



d. var. Shell broad, wrinkled towards the apex, which is sub- 



central. 

 Scutus angustatus K. Ad. P. Z. S., 185 1, p. 222. 

 $. h-evimhis A. Ad., part (non Blainv.) Thes. pi. 249, f. 6. 



Sow. Con. Icon., pi. 2, f. 4. 

 Smites elongatiis A. Ad., part (non Blaihv.) Thes. Con., pi. 



249, f. 21; Sowb. 1. c. f. ic. 

 Parmophorus granulahis Reeve. Conch. Syst., pi. 139, f. 4. 

 Scutus granidatus A. Ad. P. Z. S., -1851, p. 221, part. 



e. var. ? Shell deeply emarginate anteriorly. 



P. ejnarginatus Philippi. Zeitschr. Malac, 185 1, p. 89. 



f. var.? "Shell ovate, smooth." 



Parmophorus Puppeli Philippi, 1. c. p. 89. 

 =P. australis Riippel (non Lamarck). Atlas Reise in nord. 

 Afrika, pi. x., f. 5a-c (animal and shell). 



Habitat — Amboina (L.), New Ireland (Quoy and Gaim.), 

 Japan (Reeve and Canefri), China and Red Sea (Phihppi), Cape 

 of Good Hope, Zanzibar, Red Sea, Bombay, Philippines, Port 

 Essington and Moreton Bay (Brit. Mus.) 



This species was described by Linnaeus in the * Museum 

 Ulricge' and again characterized in the 12th edition of the 

 'Systema Naturae.' In the former work he cites a single figure in 

 Rumphius's ' D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer,' pi. 40, f i, which 

 indeed represents a species of Scutus, but which species it is 

 impossible to determine with certainty, as the figure is very bad. 

 It represents a shell of a very narrow shape, but this form may 

 have been produced by the sides of the specimen being broken 

 away or filed off. In the 'Systema,' besides this figure, another is 

 referred to in Petiver's 'Gazophylacium,' pi. 32, f. 9. This is a 

 drawing of a species of Lingula. 



J.C, ii... Sept., 1879 



