110 OX SOME NEW MARINE SHELLS EIIOM MORETON" BAY, 



which the uppermost is often the largest, closely decussate with 

 oblique squamose stride, keel elevated, somewhat flattened and 

 projecting over the suture in a conspicuous manner; granules 

 rounded, subobsolete ; apex acute, aperture obliquely quadrate, 

 smooth, nacreous, of a rosy silver hue, with one conspicuous 

 angular groove in the middle ; outer lip thickened, produced in 

 the middle ; columella rounded, truncate below, not tuberculate, 

 base convexly rounded, subumbilicate, elegantly lirate, the lira) 

 being granular and alternating large and small, tessellate and 

 radiately striate. 



Moreton Buy, common. The young are distinctly umbilicate 

 Many specimens have between the large liree smaller ones on the 

 whorls of the spire. The species differs especially from all 

 previously described, in the roundly convex base and non- 

 tuberculous columella. It comes very near to T. zebrides, Adams 

 which is common at Moreton Bay, and with which it has been 

 previously confounded. 



ASTEALIUM PAGODTJS, U.S. 



Testa anguste pyramidata, tenui.pedliderutila, strigis J at is, olivaceis 

 longitudinal iter variegata ; anfr. 6, concavis, ad suturam acutissime 

 angulatis, et spinis brevibus regulariter armatis, 4 vel 5 lineis 

 granulorum indistinctc et irreguJariter cinctis ; spinis numerosis, obtuse 

 angulatis, concavis, idtim. anfr. 18; gramdis distant ibus, paruui 

 elevatis ; apicc acuto, apertura oblique quadrata, depressa, intus hevi, 

 margaritacea, labro acuto ; columella cure ata, truncata ; basi omnino 

 planata, spiraliter lirata et tenuissinie transversim striata. Long. 15 

 lat. 18. 



Shell narrowly pyramidal, thin, pale roseate, variegated with 

 wide longitudinal olive bands ; whorls 6, concave, very acutely 

 angular at the suture, armed with a regular row of short spines, 

 and girdled with four or five lines of indistinct granulose liree. 

 Spines numerous, obtusely angular, concave, 18 in number at 



