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false sinus. Inner lip : there is a thiu glaze on the body, the line across which is very 

 straight, as is also the line down the pillar where the glaze forms a projecting border 

 (without teeth), which runs out sharp and narrow to the very point ; the point of the pillar 

 is very obliquely cut off with a twist; the pillar itself is short, strong, and conical. 

 H. 0-25 in. B. 0-13. Penultimate whorl, height - 5. Mouth, height Oil, breadth (P06. 



This belongs to the same group as Columbella (Pyrcnc) strix. 



12. Columbella (Conidca) fiava (Bruguiere). 



■? Martini, Conch. Cab., vol. ii. p. 135, pi. xliv. fig. 467. 

 Buccinumflavum, Bruguiere, Encycl. method., vol. i. p. 281, sp. 53. 

 Columbella flavida, Lamarck, Anim. s. vert., vol. vii. p. 294, and (ed. Desh.) vol. x. p. 268, sp. 4. 



„ ,, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., vol. i. pt. 4, p. 1 IS, sp. 22, pi. xxxvii. figs. 55-57. 



,, ,, Kiener, Iconographie, p. 34, sp. 30, pi. viii. fig. 3. 



,, flava, Reeve, Conch Icon., vol. xi. pi. vi. p. 27. 



„ flavida, Dcshayes, Moll. Reunion, p. 131. 



„ „ Lischke, Jap. Meer. Conch., vol. i. p. 58, vol. ii. p. 47, and (Columbella undata) 



vol. iii. p. 34, pi. ii. figs. 1-4. 



„ flavida, v. Martens, Moll. Mauritius, &c, p. 247. 



„ (Conidea) flava, Tryon, Manual, vol. v. p. 182, pL lix. figs. 67-72. 



,, (Pyrene) flava, Dunker, Ind. Moll. Mar. Japon., p. 55. 



Station 172. July 22, 1874. Lat, 20° 58' S.\ long. 175° 9' W. Off Nukalofa, 

 Tongatabu. 18 fathoms. Coral mud. 



Habitat. — Indian Ocean, Ceylon, and Polynesia (v. Martens), Japan (Lischke). 



I have put a mark of interrogation to the citation of " Martini, Conch. Cab.," because he 

 positively ascribes the species there mentioned to Gorea, Jamaica, and the Antilles; but Professor 

 v. Martens (loc. cit.) quotes Martini for this species. 



13. Columbella (Pusiostoma) rnendicaria (Linne). 



Voluta rnendicaria, Linne, Syst. Nat., p. 1191, No. 412. 



Martini, Conch. Cab., vol. ii. p. 132, pi. xliv. figs. 460, 461. 

 „ „ Dilhvyn, Cat., vol. i. p. 536, sp. 82. 



Wood, Ind. Test., p. 102, pi. xx. fig. 79. 

 Columbella rnendicaria, Lamarck, Anim. s. vert., vol. vii. p. 296, and (ed. Desh.) vol. x. p. 272, sp. 14. 

 ,, „ Bruguiere, Encycl. method., vol. ii. p. 254, sp. 9, pi. ccclxxv. fig. 10. 



„ „ Quoy and Gaimard, " Astrolabe " Zool., vol. ii. p. 584, pi. xl. figs. 27, 28. 



„ ,, Kiener, Iconographie, p. 48, sp. 43, pi. vi. fig. 1. 



Ricinula rnendicaria, Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. iii pi. ii. fig. 8. 

 Columbella rnendicaria, Gray, Moll. Figures, vol. ii. pi. xcviii. fig. 7. 



„ „ Mbrch, Journ. de conch., vol vii. (1858), p. 260, pi. ix. fig. 7 (radula). 



