COCHLOSTYLA-AXINA. 165 



Var. gloynei Sowb. (1889). PL 21, figs. 37, 38. 



More globose, elegantly fenestrated with cream- white; periphery 

 very obtusely carinated. Apical whorls rose. 



Var. ecarinata v. Moll. (1890). 



Nearly 6 little-convex whorls, the last not angulated ; cuticle lat- 

 ticed with white, apex rose, right margin of the aperture not in the 

 least angulated, peristome less expanded and reflexed. 



Alt. 22J, diam. 32* mill. 



Magtan ; Tim obo. 



C. MORELETI Pfeiffer. PL 45, figs. 45, 46. 



Imperforate, conoid-globose, rather solid ; brown-black, cov- 

 ered with a shining buff-chestnut cuticle, variously striped and zig- 

 zagly streaked: Spire sub-semi-globose, apex roseate, rather acute. 

 Whorls 4*, little convex, separated by somewhat impressed sutures, 

 the last whorl large, peculiarly flattened at the periphery, toward 

 the base angulated, beneath somewhat flattened. Aperture very 

 oblique, roundly-quadrangular, milk-white inside ; peristome black, 

 narrowly reflexed ; columella straighened, suboblique, flesh-colored, 

 whitish above, (v. Moll.} 



Alt. 28, greater diam. 37 mill.; apert. width 25*, alt. 21 i mill. 



Boljoon, Zebu. 



A. moreleti PFR., Zeitschr. f. Mai. 1848, p. 118 ; Conchy 1. Cab. 

 p. 330, t. 130, f. 9, 10; Monogr. iii, p. 177. Cocfilostyla (Axina) 

 moreleti v. MOLL., Landschn. Cebu, p. 238. 



The only published figures represent a shell from which the epi- 

 dermis had been rubbed. Mollendorff has recently described fresh 

 examples and discovered the locality, heretofore unknown. 



O. MONTFORTIANA Pfeiffer. PL 41, figs. 14, 15, 16. 



Imperforate, turbinate, thick, ponderous, blackish-rufous, covered 

 with a hydrophanous ashen-brown cuticle ; spire conoid ; apex violet- 

 purple, denuded, shining, obtuse ; whorls 4*, slightly convex, the 

 last angulated, angle evanescent on the latter part of the whorl ; 

 columella sloping, callous, white, subdentate at base; aperture sub- 

 tetragonal, shining white within ; peristome narrowly reflexed, bor- 

 dered with blackish-brown. (Pfr.) 



Alt. 22, greater diam. 31, lesser 27 mill. 



Philippine Is. 



