FROM THE MONTE BELLO ISLANDS. 675 
That name, however, had been previously utilised by Linné 
(Syst. Nat. 12th ed. p. 1190, 1767) and Martyn (Univ. Conch. 
vol. iv. fig. 126, 1787), and as I have noted no synonymy I 
propose to rename Reeve’s species as above. It gives me great 
pleasure to associate with such a beautiful shell the name of my 
friend Mr. C. Hedley. Sowerby’s V. gatliffi, described from North 
Australia, differs in shape as well as coloration, and I know no 
other species that can be compared with this. 
Conus ANEMONE Lamarck, 1810. 
Tn his latest paper cited above Hedley (p. 307) gave some notes 
on this species, observing that the West Australian shell seemed to 
be typical and noted it from Port Essington and also Tasmania. 
My specimens from Monte Bello Islands agree with his conclusions, 
so I anticipate that Verco’s Geraldton record would also agree. If 
it be conceded that the East Australian shells are only sub- 
specifically distinct (my own shells from Sydney, New South Wales, 
and Lord Howe Island agree with Hedleys remarks) then the 
names to be used would be 
Conus anemone Lamarck. North, West, and South Australia ; 
of which C. novehollandie A. Adams is an absolute synonym ; 
and 
Conus maculosus Sowerby. Hast Australia and Lord Howe 
Island ; 
with jukesii Reeve, maculatus Sowerby, and rossitert Brazier, as 
absolute synonyms. 
R#HODOSTOMA AURIS-FELIS (Bruguiére, 1789). 
The genus name here used was introduced by Swainson, Treat. 
Malac. pp. 208, 344, 1840, the species cited being coffe Chemn. 
120, f. 1043; fabula Feér. Tab. Syst. 105, n. 24; and nucleus id. 
ib. n. 26. In the Tab. Syst. Moll. Férussac, p. 109 (or 105) 
included fabula in Auricula (Conovulus), and then proposed 
Auricula (Cassidula) felis Lamarck=coffea Chemn., and added 
Auricula nucleus without any subgeneric designation. Cassidula 
has been used for the group typified by auris-felis Bruguiére 
(=coffea Chemn.) ever since this introduction, which only dates 
from 1821. In the Syst. Anim. p. 348, 1801, twenty years pre- 
viously, Lamarck had proposed Cassidulus for an Echinid, which 
name is now generally accepted as invalidating Cassidwla. 
