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tion, or description on which, under Article 
25, the availability of that name depends was 
written not by the author of the book or 
paper concerned but by the author to whom 
the name is there attributed.” 
For these reasons, the species of Conus re- 
ferred to as, e.g. ''Conus catus Hwass” in 
Bruguiere (1792) are herein cited as, e.g. 
"Conus catus Hwass in Bruguiere.” 
Museum Calonnianum. 1797. The names in- 
troduced in this publication were rejected in 
Opinion 51 of the ICZN (Smithsonian Publ. 
2060, 1912; 116), but this decision has not 
been universally accepted. Of the names listed 
in the Museum Calonnianum, only three, all 
of which are synonyms, are pertinent to this 
paper. For the sake of completeness, they are 
listed in brackets in the synonymies. Author- 
ship of the Museum Calonnianum is attrib- 
uted to George Humphrey, following general 
acceptance. The problem is discussed in de- 
tail by Iredale (1937). 
Museum Boltenianum. 1798. The names in 
this volume were accepted as nomenclatori- 
ally available in Opinion 96 of the ICZN 
(Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 73(4) : 16-18, 1926), 
and their authorship was attributed to P. F. 
Roding in Direction 48 of the ICZN (Opin- 
ions and Declarations Rendered by the ICZN, 
1: 255-264, 1956). 
L. W. Dillwyn. A Descriptive Catalogue of 
Recent Shells. 1817. A number of species of 
Conus described by Chemnitz (1788, 1795) 
are listed in Dillwyn’s catalogue. Since the 
specific names in Chemnitz (1788, 1795) have 
been rejected by Opinion 184 of the ICZN 
(Opinions and Declarations Rendered by the 
ICZN, 3: 27-35), these names became no- 
menclatorially available upon publication by 
Dillwyn (1817). (See also Bull. Zool. No- 
mend. , 4; 259-260, 1950.) 
L. C. Kiener. Species General et Iconographie 
des Coquilles Vivantes. 1845-1850. The names 
of species described in this work appear both 
on the plates and in the text. Hanna and 
Strong ( 1949 ) reproduce the summary of the 
collation of Sherborn and Woodward (I9OI: 
218) which gives 1846 as the year of publica- 
tion of the plates. This date, however, is 
erroneous, being presumably a typographical 
error. The correct date is 1845 as given in the 
body of the paper (Sherborn and Woodward, 
1901 : 217). Therefore, the names in Kiener’s 
work should date from 1845 rather than from 
the dates on which they appeared in the text.^ 
Tomlin (1937) has given the most com- 
plete catalogue of the genus Conus. Some 
2,700 names are listed, including both extant 
and fossil species. Earlier catalogues of Re- 
cent species are given by Reeve (1843-1849), 
Kiener (1845-1850), Sowerby (1857-1858), 
and Tryon (1884). 
Earlier published lists of the species of 
Conus in Hawaii are those of Garrett (1878), 
Edmondson (1933, 1946), Tinker (1952, 
1958), and Greene (1953). Extensive unpub- 
lished lists compiled by W. A. Bryan in 1919, 
and by E. H. Bryan, Jr. in 1956, have been 
made available to the writer by E. H. Bryan, Jr. 
SYNONYMY 
The synonymies consist of the first known 
publication of all known different names, au- 
thors, and combinations which have been 
applied to the species, listed chronologically. 
Subsequent references to the same name are 
not given, with the exception of errors and 
emendations, in order to conserve space. It is 
perhaps unfortunate that some of the refer- 
ences are to distributional lists and museum 
catalogues, which in many cases lack taxo- 
nomic information. These are included pri- 
marily because specific names first published 
in some of the museum catalogues have been 
recognized as available by the ICZN. Further- 
more, in addition to their historical impor- 
tance, such lists and catalogues are in some 
cases the source of errors which have been 
perpetuated in the subsequent literature. 
Many specific names of Conus were intro- 
duced by authors who did not consistently 
use the binominal system. These names are 
3 The author is grateful to Dr. Harald A. Rehder for 
having pointed out this discrepancy. 
