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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
PuRPURIDiE. 
Pitrpttra hcemastoma (L.). On its occurrence on the shore of Algeria; 
often without other species of sheila. Weinkauff, Conch, d. Mittelrn. ii. 
p. 63. — Lingual dentition by Hogg, Trans. Roy. Microscop. Soc. xvi. pi. 10. 
fig. 30. 
Purpura. Pease (Am. Journ. Conch, iv.) describes as new P. marmo- 
rata from Apiana Island (Polynesia), p. 92, pi. 11. fig. 5,* and remarks on 
the following species: — P. aperta (Blaine .) = /nac?-osfoma (Conrad) = Arnica 
(Val.); P.harpa {Oomadi) — scopina (Reeve, not Quoy & Gaim.) ; P. uffinis 
(Reeve) (Chemn.) ; P. aculeata (Regenf.) and plicata = 
hippocastanum (Lam.) : pp. 109, 110. 
lopas sertum (Brug.), francoUnus (Brug.), and situla (Reeve) considered 
to be varieties. Pease, Am. Journ. Conch, iv. pp. 118, 119. 
Vexillia (Adams). To this genus belong : — Purpura leucostoma (Desh.), 
Bourbon j Flanaxis cimjulata (Gould), Japan; V. lineata (A. Ad.)=PwrpMra 
striatella (Garrett); and F. (JJsilla) fusconigra (Pease). Pease, 1. c. p. 115. 
Ricinula horrida (Lam.), jodostoma (Less.), clathrata (Lam.), arachnoides 
(Lam.), alholabris (Blainv.), digitata (Lam.), elegans (Brod.), tuherculata 
(Blainv.), morus (Lam.), marginella (Blainv.), aspera (Lam.), nodulosa 
(Adams), mendicaria (L.), heptagonalis (Reeve), spectrum (Reeve), alveolata 
(Kian.), ochrostoma (Blainv.), wnata (Reeve), lauta (Reeve), carhonaria 
(Reeve), (Reeve), daformis (Reeve), hieutenata (Reeve), 
(Chemn.), elongata (Blainv.), joa/cAra (Reeve), concalenata (Blainv. ),/?*^/^^<«^ 
(Blainv.), chrysostoma (Desh.), trifasciata (Reeve), rosea (Reeve), spectruin 
var. iurhinella (Kien.), mutica (Lam.), ferruginosa (Reeve), lineata (Reeve), 
chaidea (Duclos), data (Blainv.), concinna (Reeve), eximia (Reeve), cavernosa 
(Reeve), and contractu (Reeve). Kiister, Conch. sect.‘55. pp. 3-32, pis. 1-5 : 
figures good, most from specimens in private collections in Germany; a few 
appear to be copied from Reeve. New are the following : — Ricinula eburnea, 
p. 17, pi. 3. fig. 9, Indian Ocean; R.fusca, p. 2(3, pi. 4. fig. 16, locality not 
known; and R. albovaria, p. 31, pi. 5. tigs. 14, 15, locality not known. 
\^Ricimda'] Sistrum rugidosuniy sp. n., Pease, Am. Journ. Conch, iv. p. 93, 
pi. 11. fig. 7, Howland Island, Polynesia. — S. ochrostoma (Blainv.) = P«r. nas- 
soides, var., of Quoy and Gaimard = Pic. ecA/wn^a (Reeve) ; S. cancellatum 
(Q. & G. as Purpura) — Pirp. fenestrata (Blainv.) = Pfc. elongata (Reeve). 
Pease, ibid. pp. 116, 117, . 
Enzina dumosa (Conrad as Purpura) — Ricimda porpkyrostoma (Reeve) and 
E. bella (Reeve as Ricinula) = Voluta fragaria (^oo^) — Turbinella caroUtue 
(Kien.). Pease, /. c. p. 123. 
Cuma muricina (Blainville) = et turbinoides {Pldiny .) = tessellata 
(9hov;r.)—foliacea (Conrad). Pease, /. c. p. 111. 
Latiaxis tectum sineme (Desh. as Murex), L. laceratus (Desh. as Mutex) — 
Mur. cariniferous (Sow. 111.), and L. benoiti (Tiberi as Murex) ^ in the Medi- 
terranean. Weinkauff, Conch, d. Mittelrn. ii. pp. 96, 97, & 441. 
Coralliophila lamellosa (Jan as Fusus), C. scalaris (Brocchi as Murex), and 
brevis (Blainv. as Purpura) — Pyrula s(jua?mdata (Phil.), in the Mediterranean, 
Weinkauff, 1. c. pp. 97, 99. 
Ooralliophila. The Polynesian species are enumerated by Hai-per Pease 
as follows : — neritoidea (Chemm., Lam.)=v/o/acea (Kion.) = 5|^j/awm/o5a 
