ni: I ii \ Ih I 9. 



i'ii the hitter luill' .-mnewhat ,-tained \\ilh rr(hli>h-rlicstinit, :unl tin n 

 becoming alino-t iMiit'oi ID hhick (|il. -Id, ligs. 7, *). Surface some- 

 what shining, with slight growth-wrinkles and dose, rather coarse 

 ami .-hallow spiral stria', subobsolete on the last \\lmrl. Whorls ('< to 

 7. the apex decollate ami pluggi (1 (at least in the specimen before 

 me); nepioiiic shell prohalilv cuniposeil of at least "> whorls, which 

 are deii.-ely pitted ; la-t whorl oblong, tapering below. 



Aperture oblique, rhombic-oval, white inside : peristomc slowly 

 but decidedly expanding, thick, obtuse, purplish black at the edge, 

 with a broad, blackish-violet border within, shading into violet and 

 then white; columella violet, somewhat cylindrical, subvertical and 

 indistinctly Insinuate ; parietal callus and the rellexed columellar 

 callus black throughout. 



A!t. s7. diam. 42, longest axis of aperture 4*'> mill. 



Alt. s'.i, diam. 47 mill, (from Reeve's figure of the type.) 



( 'fi/dittliiii: " J't/r/Ti/io." in-iir tin' raJcdiio Tulinta (Adam.-on coll.); 

 rttUrtj nf(.;,i,i,lnns (Gen. .1. Acusta); " li<jnta " (pi. 4d, f. 7, X). 



iiilinnxoiii! (iKAi, 1'. 7.. S., 1^;:.'5, p. 12.'^. ' 

 ii KKKVK (de novo), Conch. Icon. pi. '2(\ f. 1C);") 

 I'l i;., Concliyl. Cab., p. 242. pi. ('<:>. f. 1, 2 ; Monogr. iii, p. oU7; iv, 

 p. o~<l; \i, p. 14. IlurK in Castelnau's Kxped. dans 1'Amcr. du 

 Snd. Moll., p. :!2, pi. S, f. 2 r>i..\M> in C'. B. Adams' Contrih. to 

 Conch, no. 12, ).. 2:',1. 



The t\pe of //. (if/iniisniifi (pi. .'I'.*, ligs. 1, 2), was only rather 

 laintlv mottled. The specimens figured by Iliipcand IMeilli-r, and 

 that .-hown on my plate 4<>, lig. 7, S, are much more Inavily \eiiifd 

 and moltied, and constitute a color- variety imirti/ii/ns. It is a larger 

 .-pecie- than <>. iilriniH-iilnriiis, \\hite \\ithin, and ditl'erently marked 

 externally. 



Thi- i> not (h lliiilii-ns ui/ii/i/sdji/'i ol 15eck, which is (). berUOTM 

 |; . \.-. I'.i'ck's relerein-e to a figure in (ira\'s Spicilegia Xm'ilogica 

 i> apparently a mi>laken one. There i> no Mich ligure in that \\ork. 



( ). ippuoxiMATUS (Fulton). I'l. 4(i, ligs. 1,2,8. 



Sln-ll oblong-conic, ibick and solid ; whorls of the spin- largely 

 denuded of cuticle, whitish-purple with a series of oblong purple spots 

 abo\e the .-uluie- .separated iiy -mall white spots, and sometime- a 

 mi diiin inlernipted girdle; the la.-t \\horl covered with a thin 

 cuticle, -omewhat yello\\i-h or oli\ aceou.--tawny, becoming reddi.-h 



