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July 29, 1874. Levuka, Fiji. 12 fathoms. 



September 8, 1874. Cape York, off Albany Island, Torres Strait. 3 to 12 fathoms. 



Habitat.— Philippines (Sowerby) ; North Australia, Torres Strait (Brazier). ■ 



The specimens from Fiji differ from the type in the shape of the base, which is concave, and in 

 the absence of the brown fillet round the lower part of the whorls, but agree so closely in all other 

 respects that they must be reckoned to this species. A very characteristic feature of the species is 

 the deep furrow at the suture, which Philippi does not mention, but to which Reeve alludes in his 

 description. 



2. Cerithium carbonarium, Philippi. 



CeritMum carbonarium, Philippi, Zeitsch. f. Malak., 1848, vol. v. p. 142, No. 83. 



„ bornii, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., vol. ii. pt. 16, p. 8G9, sp. 88, pi. clxxxii. fig. 175. 

 ,, „ Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. xv. pi. v. fig. 26. 



May 14, 1875. Oosima, Japan. 



Habitat. — China (Philippi) ; island of Panay (British Museum). 



In regard to this species I have followed Mr E. A. Smith (" Alert " Collections, p. 65), who has 

 pointed out that " Cerithium tuberculatum, Linne," which Sowerby figures in the Thesaurus (p. 870, 

 pi. clxxii. figs. 162, 164) and Reeve in the Conchologia (fig. 21), as this species is that neither of 

 Linne nor of Philippi, but a variety of Cerithium patieris, Bayle ( = Cerithium rugosum, Wood, not 

 Lam.), and that the Cerithium carbonarium figured in the Conchologia (pi. ix. fig. 59) is a form of 

 Cerithium morus, Lam. 



3. Cerithium columna (?), Sowerby. 



CeritMum columna, Sowerby, Genera, vol. ii. pi. cciv. fig. 7. 



„ Sowerby, Thes. Conch., vol. ii. pt. 16, p. 855, No. 25, pi. clxxviii. figs. 55-58. 

 „ „ Reeve, Conch. Icon., vol. xv. pi. L fig. 2. 



,, » Brazier, "Chevert" Exped. Shells, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 1877, 



vol. i. p. 314, No. 9. 

 „ ,, v. Martens, Moll. Mauritius, &c, p. 280. 



„ „ Dunker, Index Moll. Mar. Japon., p. 106. 



„ „ E. A. Smith, " Alert " Collections, p. 500. 



July 29, 1874. Levuka, Fiji. 12 fathoms. 



Habitat.— Philippines (Sowerby) ; Island of Masbate (British Museum) ; Mauritius, 

 Red Sea, India, Ceylon, Indian Archipelago, Polynesia, and Australia (v. Martens). 



The specimen obtained by the Challenger is a young shell in bad condition, whose identification 

 cannot be considered satisfactory, but I believe it to be this species. 



