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Punchal eastward, and Porto Santo. Yery abundant. — 

 McAndrew's List does not give the species, but in his own 

 copy at the Cambridge Natural History Museum it is 

 entered and initialled by himself for Madeira, Canaries, and 

 Mogador. The query I have suffixed to the name expresses 

 the grave doubts I feel, more than shared by Dr. Grwyn 

 Jeffreys, of tbe correctness of this identification; but as he 

 has taken the responsibility of publishing it as Madeiran 

 on the strength of my specimens, I am content to follow 

 Mm. With more reason than in many like cases elsewhere 

 the shell might pass for new ; but the species is a variable one. 



173. Montacuta triangularis^ 1897, Watson, antea, p. 264. 



174. Mtcresc (Ocinehra) aciculatus, 1822, Lamarck, An. s. Vert. 



Yii. 176 : Gwyn Jeffreys, B. C. iv. 310 ; & v. 218, Ixxxiv. 2. 

 Hai. From the English Channel to Mediterranean and 

 Mogador. (M., L., Jn., W.) From Magdalena to island's 

 East point and Porto Santo. Very abundant. 



175. Murex {CoralliopJiila) hrevis, 1832, de Blainville (as Pur- 

 pura), Ann. Sc. Nat. i. 233, xi. 10 ; Philippi (as Pyrula 

 squamulata), Enumeratio, i. 207, xi. 21 (not 31), ll. 180. 

 Hab. Mediterranean. (L., Jn., W.) Porto Santo. One 

 specimen each. — Mr. Lowe has left no record of locality 

 for his one very young specimen. In the face of confusion 

 in the identification of this species I have unwillingly gone 

 behind Philippi, whose figure and description are un- 

 mistakable. 



Murex cristatus, Broc. — McAndrew, Eeport, p. 40, gives this as " rare ;" 

 for the Canaries he does not mention it : neither at Cambridge nor in the 

 British Museum does his collection contain specimens, but Bellardi 

 (vol. i. p. 87) gives it from Upper Miocene. 



176. Murex {Ocinelra)Edwardsii, 1826, Payraudeau (a,sPurpura), 



Moll. Cors. p. 155, vii. 17, 18 ; de Blainville, Faune frang. 

 p. 129, V. (b) 5. It exists from the Upper Miocene on- 

 wards. Hai. From Bay of Biscay to Mediterranean and 

 Canaries. (M., L., N., Jn., W.) From Funchal westwards. 

 Very abundant. 



177. Murex {Ocinehra) erinaeeus, 1767, Linne, Syst. Nat. p. 1216 : 



Gwyn Jeffreys, B. C. iv. 306, v. 5 ; & v. 218, Ixxxiv. 1. In 

 existence from Middle Miocene onwards. Sah. From 

 Cattegat to Black Sea and Mogador. (M., L., N., Jn., W.) 

 From Funchal to East point and Porto Santo. Abundant. 

 Murex Jusulus, see Tropkon. 



