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Scaphella papillosa, Swainson. PL xiv ., figs. 1-3. 



Valuta papulosa, Swainson. Appendix, Bligh Catalogue. 



Voluta papillaris (papillosa), Swainson, Sowerby, Genera of 

 Shells, 1820-1825, pi. ccli., no locality. According to a note by 

 W. J. B., "the slight alteration here given in the trivial name is 

 only to be considered in the light of a correction of the press." 

 Mr. Sowerby, sen., or Mr. Broderip is, therefore, responsible for 

 the change in the specific name. Kiener, in Coq. Viv., 1839, 

 under the name of Voluta sowerbyi nobis, pi. L, 2 figs., gives 

 figures of V . fusiformis, Swainson, and refers to them in mistake 

 as V. papillaris, Sowerby, and changes the name to V. sowerbyi. 



Swainson, in Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, Natural His- 

 tory, Malacology, 1840, p. 108, calls his shell Scaphella papil- 

 laris, and figures it in the text 12a, and on page 318 refers 

 to it as Scaphella papillosa, Sowerby, Gen., as though uncer- 

 tain which name to retain. Sowerby, in Thes. Conch., vol. i., 

 1847, p. 207, Sp. 36, pi. xlvii., fig. 30, cites its habitat as 

 "Fijee Islands." Reeve, Conch Icon., 1849, vol. vi., pi. iv., 

 fig. 10, gives Port Lincoln as a habitat, under the name Voluta 

 papillaris. He writes, "Mr. Swainson named this species 

 papillosa, with the view of drawing attention to the remark- 

 able papillary structure of the apex, but as the word signifies 

 'full of papillae' it is better rendered papillaris. Taking it 

 to refer to the painting, and confounding the species with 

 V. fusiformis, M. Kiener has changed the name to do honour 

 to Mr. Sowerby (calling it V . sowerbyi, Kiener), because the 

 spots have so rarely the appearance of papillae." Mr. Sowerby 

 acknowledges the compliment in language severe but not the 

 less true, by calling it u an absurdity." Gray, in Proc. Zool. 

 Soc, London, p. 63, calls it Volutella papillosa, Gray. Crosse, 

 Jour, de Conch., 1871, vol. xix., p. 297, refers to it as Voluta 

 (Alcithoe) papillosa. Petterd, in Jour, of Conch., 1879, p. 

 343, as Voluta papillosa, Swainson, cites it as from the north 

 coast of Tasmania and Encounter Bay, South Australia, and 

 off the coast of New South Wales, between Montague Island 

 and Twofold Bay, dredged in 1,900 fathoms (Brazier). He 

 creates and describes a variety macquariensis, of a uniform 

 yellowish colour without bands or reticulate markings, from 

 Macquarie Harbour, west coast of Tasmania. Tryon, Man. 

 Conch., 1882, vol. iv., p. 96, pi. xxviii., fig. 106, as Voluta 

 (Alcithoe). Brazier, in Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 1897, vol. 

 xxii., p. 779, describes Voluta kenyoniana, from Cape 

 Everard, Victoria, a form with 19-20 axial obtuse ribs, which 

 in Proc. Mai. Soc, London, 1906-7, vol. vii., p. 6, was recog- 

 nized as only a variety of Voluta papillosa, Swainson. 

 Pritchard and Gatliff, Proc. Roy. Soc, Victoria, 1898 (1897), 

 vol. x. (New Series), p. 282, give "Phillip Island, Western 

 Port, Portland." Tate and May, Proc. Linn. Soc, N.S.W., 

 1901, vol. xxvi., p. 360. 



