200 Mr. Brod«ifip on two new Shells from the Mauritius. 



exterioris margine expanse, tenui ; aperiura ovata, valdc sulcata, 

 aurantiaca, supern^ in sinu alto, foliato, varicem pratereunte 

 desinente. 



Habitat in Mauritio ? 



Mus. Farquhar. Goodall. Nost. 



Icon. Tab. Supp. XL fig. 1. 



Shell ovate-conical, ventricose, not compressed, of a fle&h or 

 pale rose colour; with frequent, transverse, subgranulated, low 

 ridges, the interstices between which are longitudinally striated ; 

 the whorls armed with one row of sharp tubercles, the middle of 

 which are the longest, the other ridges of the body whorl obso- 

 letely tuberculated here and there ; the columellar lip expansive 

 and foliated, and the margin of the outer lip expanded and thin ;, 

 the aperture ovate, very strongly and thickly furrowed, of a rich 

 orange colour, and terminating above in a deep foliated sinus, 

 which extends beyond the varix. 



I have been more than usually minute in giving the specific 

 character of this shell, in order to shew upon a comparison with 

 Laraarck*s description of Ranella crumena^ that the latter is a 

 totally different species. The Ranella crumena is thus described 

 in the Syst. des animaux sans vertebres, vol. 7, p. 151, No. 5. 



*' Ranelle grenouille. Ranella crumena. ^dv-^ Mpp^ ilf-^- 



JR. testa ovatO'ttcutA, ventricosd, tuherculato - muricata, 



transverse sulcata aut strtato-granulosd, albido-rufescente; 



tuber cutis longiusculis acutis^ fusco maculatis ; apertura 



aurantio-rubrdy albo-sulcat&. 



^ murex rana. Lin. Gmel. p. 3531. No, 23. 

 Lister, Conch, t. 995. f. 58. 

 Bonanni, Recr. 3. f. 182. 

 Rumph. Mus. t. 24. f. G. 

 Petiv. Gaz. t. 100. f. 12. et Amb. t. 11. f. 15. 

 Gualt. Test. t. 49. f. L. 

 Seba, Mus. 3. t. 60. f. 13. et 15—18. 

 Knorr, Vergn. 2. t. 13. f. 6. 7. 

 F^anne, Conch. 4. t. 133. f. 1270. 1271. 

 Ranella crumena, Encyclop. pi. 412. f. 3. 



