MOLLUSCA GASTEROPODA. 437 



F.rato viMUnn, Hinds (Sulphur), from California. 



Lovell Reeve institutes (Proc. p. 169) 87 new species of Mitra, which are 

 figured in his Conchologia iconica. The great number must demand it. 

 M. Belcheri, previously instituted in the Annals (si, p. 255), is figured in 

 Hinds (Sulphur). 



Imlricaria carbonacea, Hinds (Sulphur), from the Cape. The generic 

 name given by Schumacher, 1817, is here preferred to Conohelix, Swainsou, 

 1833. 



Six new species of Valuta, by G. B. Sowerby, are given in the Proceed, 

 p. 119. 



Sowerby describes 37 species of Columbella, from Cuming's collection, 

 which are figured in his Thesaurus, part 4, (in Proceed. 12, March, 1844; 

 Annals, xiv, p. 495): 0. fusiformis, from Veragua; pavonina, locality not 

 stated; carinata, from California; and lentiginosa, from the Gulf of Nicoya, 

 Hinds (Sulphur). 



The monograph on the genus Columbella, in Sowerby's Thesaurus, con- 

 tains 103 species, figured on five plates (36-40). 



Planaxis breviculus, Deshayes (Guerin, Magas. de Zool. pi. 108] : oval, 

 pointed, with brown longitudinal and transverse stria?, aperture chesuut 

 brown internally, columella callous above ; locality unknown. 



PI. S'lvitjiii/i, id. (ib. pi. 109) : long oval, pointed, transversely striated, last 

 whorl with an obtuse angle, aperture sulcate internally, columella with a 

 white border, callous in the upper angle. Red Sea and Madagascar. 



Buccinummetula, Hinds (Sulphur), from Veragua. 



Nassa candens, from the Marquesas Islands ; cremata, locality not stated; 

 perpiiiffids, from California, myristicata, from the Cape, podata, from 

 Malacca, mcEsta, from Central America, and yaudiosa, from Malacca, are 

 instituted and figured in Hinds (Sulphur). 



Twenty species of Terebra (Proc. 1843, p. 149, vide last Report, p. 358, 

 (Transl. p. 223) are figured in Hinds (Sulphur). 



Cassidaria depressa, Philippi (Enum. p. 186.) 



Puqitti-a clirysostoma, Deshayes (Guerin, Magas. pi. 86) : longitudinally 

 costate, aperture narrow, orange, columella thickened in the middle; 20 

 millini. Red Sea. 



Deshayes figures (in Gueriu's Magas. pi. 85) his Fusus Blosvillei, from 

 Ceylon, but places it in the genus Purpura, Lain. ; F. clausicaudatus, Hinds 

 (Sulphur), from the Cape; F. pulcJiellus, Philippi (Enum. p. 178.) lu 

 Philippi's Abbilduug. v. pi. 1, are figured : F. Voigtli, Anton, ambiyuus, 

 Phil., plumbeus, Phil., from Chili, obscurus, Phil., pygnueus, Gould, cinereus, 

 Say, yitttaftis, V. d. Busch, cctpensis and lineolutus, Dunker, from the Cape, 

 li<iiliiiti<s, Phil. (F. pulchelliis, Pfr.), modestus, Anton, deeemcostatm, Say. 



Fasciolaria Antonii, Recluz. (Rev. Zool. p. 49 ; Gueriu, Magas. pi. 92.) 



The species of Pleurotoma already enumerated in the last Report, p. 359 



