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Seaphella papillosa, Swainson’ Pl. xiv ., figs. 1-3, 
Voluta papillosa, Swainson. Appendix, Bligh Catalogue. 
Voluta papillaris (papillosa), Swainson, Sowerby, Genera of 
Shells, 1820-1825, pl. 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 prea 
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, pl. 1., 2 figs., gives 
figures of V. fusiformis, Swainson, and refers to them in mistake 
as V. papillaris, Sowerby, and changes the name to V. sowerbyt- 
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. The 
1847, p. 207, Sp. 36, pl. xlvii., fig. 30, cites its habitat as 
“Fijee Islands.’ Reeve, Conch Icon., 1849, vol. vi., pl. iv., 
fig. 10, gives Port Lincoln as a habitat, under the name V oluta 
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 papille’ 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 papille.’”” Mr. Sowerby 
acknowledges the compliment in language severe but not the 
less true, by calling it “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, pl. 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. Mal. Soe., 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. 
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