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Mr. Cosmo Melvill's 



XVI. 

 A CATALOGUE 



OF THE SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF 



LATIRUS [Montfort 1810] and immediate allies. 



Revised to March, 1891. 

 By JAMES COSMO MELVILL, M.A., F.L.S. 



I. TARON [Hutton, 1882]. 



I. T, dubius (Hutton). Zool. Rec. XX., Urosalpinx dubius. 



Moll. p. 42. 1882. sec. Tryon. 



II. BUCCINOFUSUS [Conrad., 1867]. 



Syn. : Boreofusus [Sars.], 1878. 

 I. B. Berniciensis (King). Ann. Mag., p. 246, 1846. Fusus sp. 



New Zealand. 



Anglia et 

 Norvegia. 



III. LATIRUS [Montfort, 1810]. 



Syn.: Murex (pars.) (Linn.) 1767. Turbinella (Lam.) 1790. 

 PoLYGONA (Schumacher), 181 7. 



Plicatella (Swainson), 1842. Leucozonia (Gray), 1847. 

 Lagena (Schum), 181 7. 



Synonyms. 



1. L.Notcmeensis {Cxoszq). J. de Conch, XVIII., 247, 1870, XIX. 1871. N.Caledonia. 



2. Z. scaber (Souverbie). J. de Conch, XVII., 1869, XVIII. , 1870. „ 



3. Z. Rotisi (Soyfh.). Journ. of Conch., Vol. V., p. 8, 1886, Vol. VI., Port Elizabeth, 



p. I, t. 13. Africa Mer. 



4. L, auraocinctus (Sowb.). Proc. Zool. Soc, 1875, P- ^^% *• 24, i- 2. Mauritius. 



5. L. lautus {Reeve). Conch. Icon. IV., £. 73, 1847. 



6. L. craticulattis (Linn.). Murex craticulatus (Linn.). 



Syst. Nat., Ed. XII., 1224, 1767. 



7. L. Nagasakiensis (E. A. Smith). Proc. Zool. Soc, 482, t. 48, 



f. 7, 1880. 



8. L. smiguifltms (Reeve). Zea (Morch). 



Conch. Icon., IV., f. 58, 1847. 



3. fallax (Kobelt) sp. nodulatus (Pease, W. H.) 



Kiister Conchyl. Cab. 

 80, t. 19, f. 3. 



9. Z. squamosus (Pease). Proc. Zool. Soc, 240, 1862. 



Mare Erythraeum, 



Oc Ind. et 



Pacificus, 



Borbonia, 



Polynesia. 



Japonia. 

 Guinea. 



Ins. Marquesas. 



Baker's I. Poly- 

 nesia. 



