MARINE SHELLS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



GLOBULOSA, Rang. Common in the Atlantic 

 and Pacific Oceans. Occasionally found on the South 

 African coasts. 



STYLIOLA RECTA, Lesuenr = Creseis aciculata (D'Orbigny), 

 Sowb. in Conch. Icon. Pteropoda, pi. 5, fig. 29. Port 

 Elizabeth, &c. 



GASTKOPODA. 



MUREX BREVISPINA, Lamarck, Conch. Icon. (Murex), 

 pi. 19, tig. 77, Krauss, Sudafr. Moll. p. 111. Natal Bay. 



MUREX (OCINEBRA ?) PURPUROIDES, Dunker, Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon. pi. 32, fig. 153= Jf. DunJceri (Krauss), Sudafr. 

 Moll, p. 112, tab. vi. fig. 14. Port Elizabeth, Cape, and 

 Natal coasts. 



MUREX (OCINEBRA ?)* SCROBICULATUS, Dunker (Fusus), 

 Philippi, Abbild. vol. ii. p. 12, pi. 3, fig. 4. This species 

 being perfectly distinct from M. purpuroides, has been 

 commonly but erroneously taken for M. Dunkeri (Krauss), 

 which is simply a synonym for M. purpuroides. - - Port 

 Elizabeth, &c. 



MUREX ( OCINEBRA ?) KIENERI, Reeve, Conch. Icon. sp. 172. 

 --Algoa Bay and Natal coast. 



MUREX (OCINEBRA ?) CRAWFORDI, Sowerby, nov. sp. 

 (plate 1, fig. 2). Testa subventricosa, solidiuscula, strami- 

 nea; spira acuminata, sutura canaliculata ; aufractus 5^, 

 convexi, rotundati, liris numerosis elevatis subnodulosis 

 spiraliter cingulati ; anfractus ultimus inflatus, rotundatus, 

 inferne hand productus ; apertura ovata, columella levissime 

 arcuata, glabra, truncata, canali brevissimo; labrum crenu- 

 latum. 



Long. 12, lat. maj. 7 millim. 



This species is closely allied to M. scrobiculcttus, but 

 differs constantly in its shorter form, and the absence of a 

 rostrum, the base of the. columella being abruptly truncated. 

 It may also be distinguished by the presence of an additional 

 rib on the penultimate whorl. 



MUREX (OCINEBRA?) BABINGTONI, Sowerby, nov. sp. 

 ))]. 1, fig. 1. Testa fusiformis, lutec-fusca ; spira elongata, 



