1919.] E. W. Vredenburg : Shells of the family Doliidœ. 189 



3- Pirula tessellata, Kobelt, 

 Australia, two beautiful specimens, No. 259. 



4. Pirula decussata, Wood. 

 Panama, two specimens. 



5. Pirula dussumieri, Valenciennes. 1 



Pirula dussumieri was originally described from Chinese specimens. In the 

 present collection the Hong-Kong specimens are larger than those from the Bay of 

 Bengal. 



Balasore Bay, Bengal Fisheries, M ~r~, M ±^±, two specimens. 



Bay of Bengal (20°i8 / N., 90°5o' E.), 65 fathoms, Marine Survey (5337, 41 ^ A ), 

 three specimens, of which one in spirit. 



Bimlipatam (J. Wood- Mason), No. 2591, two specimens. 



Hong-Kong, three splendid specimens. 



Persian Gulf, Station 294, Marine Survey, No. H 10 (2Ô°33 / N., 52°23' E.), 40 

 fathoms, mud and sand, one specimen in spirit. 



Persian Gulf, Station 296, Marine Survey, No. L ^- 5 - (26°4' N., 56V E.), 47 fathoms, 

 mud and sand ; one specimen in spirit. 



East of Puri, Orissa Coast, Station 69, Marine Survey, s -{ 1 , & \^- (i9°49' N., 

 86°3i' E.), 46-50 fathoms, in mud ; two specimens. 



Sandheads, Gangetic delta, two specimens in spirit. 



The species is also known fossil from the tertiary of Java. 



6. Pirula ficus, Linnaeus. 



Hong-Kong, two specimens. 



Kachh, two specimens. 



Madras, four specimens. 



Negapatam, two specimens. 



Orissa Coast, Bengal Fisheries, M - Â ^ L , one specimen. 



; ' Puri," two specimens without any mark, in a box labelled " Puri," which 

 originally contained nine other specimens either from other localities or of uncertain 

 origin. Another box also labelled " Puri," and with the register slip 2589, did not 

 contain a single specimen certainly obtained from that locality. Nevertheless the 

 species does occur at Puri. 



1 Sacco refers to a shell, presumably identical with Pirula dussumieri, under the name of " Ficula gracilis, Crosse 

 (Sowerby)" (Moll. terr. terz. Piem. e Lig., Part VIII, p. 32), without quoting the authority for this correction, for which 

 I had hoped to find an explanation in the Journal of Malacology for 1894 (Vol. Ill, p. 67) which is unfortunately not 

 available in India. Presumably, it may be a name retrospectively proposed by Sowerby for the shell represented in 

 fig. 1 of the " Genera," where it was erroneously referred to Pirula reticulata. The figure, however, represents Pirula 

 papyratia, Say, named in 1822 (Journ. Philad. Acad., Vol. II, p. 238), earlier therefore than Sowerby's correction, 

 whatever may be the date of the latter. Pirula papyratia was again described as P. gracilis by Philippi in 1848 (Zeits- 

 shrijt für Malak. , Vol. V, p. 97), the repetition of Sowerby's appellation being presumably a coincidence. In conclusion, 

 the appellation gracilis is liable to give rise to confusion, while the meaning of P. dussumieri is perfectly definite. 



