NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 258 
January 1980 rage 
SOME NOTES ON THE NEW JOURNAL, 
BULLSTIN OF THE INSTITUTE OF MALACOLOGY ToKYO, 
AND A FEW COMMENTS ON 
PTERYNOTUS MIYOKOAE, A NEW SPECIES DESCRIBED THEREIN. 
Robert H. Janowsky 
It came aS a great surprise to me to learn of the exis 
scientific journal, published in Tokyo, concerning {Fbeir catislnc. 
ly with malacology.- I have had a chance now to examine number one 
of volume one of this BULLETIN, which is published by the Institute 
of Malacology, 6-36 Midoricho 3 Chome, Tanashi City, Tokyo 188, 
Japan. One must wonder at the tremendous amount of work and expense 
that have been put into this project, and one can not help but in- 
quire as to the need for such a new joumal with the already fine 
and flourishing VENUS at hand. Nonetheless, the new BULLETIN seems 
to be well done and we wish it a long and happy life. 
The first issue, published May 30, 1979, consists of 17 pages of 
text and three black and white plates. I take the liberty of here 
reproducing the table of contents, as I do not expect that the issue 
will be widely circulated: 
Kosuge, Sadao: Descriptions of Two New Species of the 
Family Muricidae (Gastropoda, Mollusca) 
(Plate 1) page 1 
Kosuge, Sadao: Descriptions of Two New Subgenus (sic) 
and Seven New Species of the Genus 
Latiaxis (Gastropoda, liollusca) 
(Plates 2-3) page 3 
Kosuge, Sadao: Report on the Mollusca Collected from 
Ishikari Bay and its Adjacent Waters by 
the R.V. Tansei-Maru during Cruise 
KT-67-7 (1967) page 8 
Kosuge, Sadao and Kiyoshi Inoué: Report on the Mollusca 
Collected from the Hast China Sea by the 
First Cruise of the R/V Umitaka-Maru in 
the Year 1970 , page 12 
The very first shell that is described by Dr. Kosuge as a new spe~ 
cies is one that I wrote about several months ago in the Concholo- 
gists of America BULLETIN, issue No. 16, June 1979. In my article 
I treated this shell as a form of Murex (Pterynotus) loebbecki 
Kobelt, 1879, but even this diehard "lumper" must admit that there 
are enough differences between P. loebbecki and this shell described 
by Kosuge as Pterynotus miyokoae to justify separation at some level 
if not ae the specific eT Without further pursuing this issue, 
though, I do wish to point out several differences in regard to this 
shell between what I have observed and what is reported by Kosuge. 
First, let me state that I have at this point had six specimens go 
through my hands. Kosuge has studied two specimens in addition xf 
his holotype. Kosuge reports that the specimens that he examine 
were collected off Mactan Island, Cebu, Philippines. All of the 
specimens that I have examined have been taken off the small island 
of Samal which is in Davao Gulf, Mindanao Island -- APREARI MALO LY, 
