95 



Hab, : — Tugela River mouth N. by W. 2, W., distant 15^ miles. 

 Depth, 40 fms. Bottom, mud. 



Compared with A^ acuminata. Reeve (Triton) this shell is 

 smaller, narrower in proportion to its length, its longitudinal ribs 

 are more numerous, and the transverse lirae more detined and 

 distant. 



LoTORiUM RAXELLOiDES, Reeve, Proc- Zool. Soc. 1844 

 (Tntonj, Conch. Icon. Triton (Tlate ill. fig. 10). 



Hao. : — icoubburgn Ligni-uuiise,' iNaial in.W. by W., distant 8 

 miles. Depth, 92 tms. Bottom, sand and shells. 



The shell is narrower, and the tubercles smaller and more 

 numerous than in Reeve's type. Similar specimens have been 

 received from Japan. Reeve gives — Island of Luzon, Philip- 

 pines, as the locality. 



LoTORiUM XASSARiFOK.ME. u. sp- (^Platc 11. hg. /). Shell fusi- 

 form, rather soiid, yellowish w-hite, interruptedly banded with 

 brown, with a narrow white zone just below tne periphery. Spire 

 acuminate, acute, rather long; whorls /-^, apical ones reguiar^ 

 the first minute, ihe third decussated with thm, rather distant, 

 longitudinal and spiral iirae ; the remaining whorls are rather 

 convex, closely nodulosly ribbed, spiially striatetl, and 

 furnished at irregular, distant intervals with rather prominent, 

 slightly reliexed, granular and tubercular varices, i^ast whori 

 about half the entire length of the shell, soni'.what intiated, con- 

 tracted below^ the periphery, and terminating in a somewhat 

 oblique, slightly recurved, rostrum- Aperture rather small, sub- 

 uvai, lip \\iiite, with the outer margin thm, slightly reliexed, and 

 spotted with brown; inner margin thickeii'^d, with seven 

 prominent tooth-like projections, the hinder one being the most 

 prominent ; coiumellar lip irregularly plicated, with a rather thin, 

 expanded callus, and a prominent tubercle neat the posterior 

 extremity : anterior canal slightly reflexed, with a narrow open- 

 ing, widening at the extremity. The entrance to the aperture of 

 the shell on the coiumellar side is decussated and coloured 

 between the decussating ridg-es with square brown spots. 



Length, 35; breadth, iS millim. 



Hab. .- — Scuttsburg Light-house, Xatal N.W. by W., distant 8 

 miles. Depth, 92 fms. Bottom, sand and shells. 



This species, undoubtedly a Lotoriuw, has much the form of a 

 A assaria. Superficiahy, the shell has something in common w-ith 

 L. ranclloides, but it is manifestly distinct from that species, being 

 very much more closely tubercled, and having no posterior canal. 



BuLLiA (BuccixAxops) AXXULATA, Lamk. (Plate IL fig. 4). 

 Two specimens procured in Algoa Bay. Jmi. ^i"^ 50 b., .ong. 

 25^54'3o" E. Depth, 24 fms. Bottom, sand, shells, and rock. 



Ihe shells of this species are well known and abundant ot J^ori 



