SOUTH AFRICAN MARINE MOLTJJSCA. 193 



319, and applied it to a species figured in the ' Encyclopedie 

 Methodique/ PI. CCCLXXIII, fig. 2. Mitra tuberculata 

 Kiener and M. cancellarioides Anton were both published 

 in 1839, but as the latter was unaccompanied by a figure I 

 have preferred to adopt the name tuberculata. Kiister has 

 retained the two forms as distinct species, but I certainly 

 agree with Reeve in uniting them. Cancellarioides is 

 merely a coloured variety. The distribution of the two forms 

 has not been particularised, and I have not the South African 

 shell before me to state to which variety it belongs. M. 

 pinguis Rf^eve may be a dwarf form of the present species. 



Columbella moleculina Dados. 



Columbella moleculina Dudos, ''Hist. Nat. Coq. Univ. 

 Marin.,' PI. IX, figs. 1, 2 (1835); id. in Chenu's 'lllust. 

 Conch.,' PI. IX, figs. 1, 2 ; Kobelt, ' Conch. Cab.,' p. 315, PI. 

 XL, fig. 7 ; Tryon, 'Man. Conch.,' vol. v, p. 117, PI. XL VII, 

 fig. 48. 



Hab. — Port Shepstone, Natal (H. Burnup). 



A single specimen sent with C. shepstonensis, n. sp. 

 Other localities are Amirantes, Solomon Islands, Lifu (Brit. 

 Mus.). 



Columbella shepstonensis, n. sp. PI. VII, fig. 6. 



Testa parva, ovato-fusiformis, nitida, albo-pellacida, zona 

 conspicua castanea, punctis niveis interrupta, supra suturaui 

 et circa medium anfractus ultimi ornata, linea continua 

 graciliore castanea et serie punctorum pallidioram circa 

 medium anfractuum picta, infra medium anfr. ultimi lineis 

 numerosis undulatis brevibus f uscis longitudinalibus decorata, 

 iafra suturam zona pellucida cincta; anfractus 6 plani ; 

 spira conica, ad apicem violacea, hand acuta; anfr. ultiuius 

 antice circa extremitatem sulcis obliquis 6-7 scuLptus, inter- 

 stitiis f usco et albo punctatis ; apertura parva, angusta ; 

 labrum leviter incrassatum, minute denticulatum, dente 



