40 Moll 
MOLLUSCA. 
Triptera (Quoy & Gaim.) = Cuvieria (Rang) ; T. cancellata, sp. n., 
very near columella (Rang), New Guinea and Solomon Archipelago, id. 
1. c. pp. 243 & 244, figs. 18 & 19 ; the author observed one adult specimen 
in which the embryonal shell was preserved as a long needle-like point, 
instead of the usual decollation. 
Cleodora, 7 species arranged into 3 natural groups, C. sulcata^ sp. n., 
very near striata (Rang), South Atlantic and near Kerguelen Island, C. 
jiexa^ sp. n., very near virgula (Rang), Pacific, near the Southern Tropic ; 
id. 1. c. pp. 237, 240 & 241, figs. 10-16. Embryonal part of the shell in 
C. pyramidata (P4ron), australis (Rang), and subulata (Q. & G.) ; id. 1. c. 
pp. 238 & 242, figs. 8, 9, & 17. 
Hyalocylis, g. n., for Cleodora striata (Rang), distinguished from the 
other Cleodora by the short duration of the larval stage and the early 
loss of the embryonal shell; Lacaze-Duthiers, Arch. Z. exp4r. iv. [1875] 
p. 177. 
Clio aurantiaca^ sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 178, pi. x. fig. 10, Messina. 
Cirrifer, g. n., distinct from Pneumoderma by the tentacles ending in 
two curved thickened branches, without suckers. C. paradoxus^ sp. n., 
Pfeifer, MB. Ak. Berl. 1879, p. 246, fig. 9, Tropical Atlantic. 
GASTROPODA. 
PEGTINIBBANGHIA. 
Kobelt has published separately lists of known species of Harpa^ 
Murex^ Vitularia, Typhis, Bullia^ Eburna, Hindsia, Cyllene, Canidia^ 
Clea, Voluta, Oliva, Olivella, Cominella, Pseudoliva, Adamsia, Euthria, 
Oniscia, Struthiolaria, Triton, Persona, Trophon, Volutharpa, Northia, 
Lyria, and Rinnicula, previously or contemporaneously published in JB. 
mal. Ges. iv.-vi. [1877-79]. 
Muricid^. 
Murex. Sowerby, Thesaur. Conch, parts xxxiii.& xxxiv. pis. ccclxxx,- 
cccciii., gives a monograph of this genus, containing 230 species, described 
in Latin, and all figured ; ho arranges them in 9 sections, with some sub- 
divisions. The following are apparently new species: M. tenuis, p. 37, 
fig. 175, Western Africa, cuspidatus, p. 36, fig. 203, Japan, inter serratus, 
p. 39, fig. 204, locality unknown, jamaicensis, p. 39, fig. 223, Jamaica, 
cyacantha (? Brit. Mus.), p. 11, fig. 160, Red Sea. The following are 
apparently not before figured: M. speciosus (A. Adams), fig. 125, Japan, 
acanthophorus (A. Adams, 1862), fig. 151, liratus (A. Adams, 1851), 
fig. 173, Western Africa, macgillivrayi (Morch, P. Z. S. 1862), fig. 162, 
alabastrum (A. Adams, 1873), fig. 191, West Indies, stimpsoni (A. Adams, 
1865), fig. 196, Japan, coronatus (A. Adams), fig. 199, Japan, yoldi (Morch), 
fig. 210, endermonis (E. A. Smith, 1875^, fig. 213, Japan, asper (A. Adams), 
fig. 244, California, solidus (A. Adams, 1851), fig. 246. M. ocfogonus 
(Sow., 1859, nec Q. & G.) is renamed obtusus, p. 30, fig. 113. 
