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p, 87, plate 25, fig, 56, 1882. Chenu: 

 Man. de Conch., p. 186, fig. 952, 1859. 

 Maxwell Smith: World-Wide Sea Shells, 

 p. 66, fig. 886, 1940. 



Alt. 75-88 mm. 



Hab. Northeast Australia; New Guinea 

 (Brazier) . 



Nucleus consisting of three whorls, 

 slightly nodulous at periphery; suture 

 rapidly descending adjacent to final whorl, 

 whitish, shining; post nuclear whorls two 

 and one-half, undulating, slightly chan- 

 neled; spire short, whorls concave between 

 slightly keeled periphery and suture; body 

 whorl bluntly keeled at periphery and show- 

 ing indistinct nodules; ground color light 

 ivory, overlaid with streaks of yellowish 

 brown, and forming several, irregular, 

 rusty-red bands; sculpture consisting of 

 indistinct spiral striae and fine longitu- 

 dinal growth lines; columella with four 

 plaits; interior flesh color, color pattern 

 extending inside the parietal wall posteri- 

 orly. 



Aulica rutila ruckeri (Crosse) I867 

 (Plate 18, Figure 129) 



Valuta ruckeri Crosse, J. de C, vol. 15> 

 p. 144, 1867, and vol. I6, p. 97, pl. 1, 

 fig. 1, 1868. Sowerby: Thes, Conch., 

 vol. 5, 2nd suppl., p. 299, pl • 15 

 (Thes. pl. 514), fig. l48. Tryon: Man. 

 Conch., vol. 4, p. 87, pl. 27, fig. 75, 

 1882. 



Alt. 65 mm. 



Hab. New Georgia, Solomon Islands (type 

 locality) . 



Distinguished from rutila rutila 

 by the shorter spire, smaller nucleus and 

 presence of constricted labrum. Interme- 

 diate examples indicate the inadvisabillty 

 of considering this a valid species. 



Aulica rosslniana (Bernardi) 1859 

 (Plate 14, Figure 102) 



Valuta rassiniana Bernard!, J. de C, vol. 

 7, p. 377, 1859; also vol. 8, p. 127, 



pl. 1, fig. 1, i860. Tryon: Man. 

 Conch., vol. 4, p. 88, pl. 26, fig. 64, 

 1882. 



Alt. 175 ram. 



Hab. Isle of Pines, New Caledonia. 



Nucleus consisting of four whorls; 

 apex low; post-nuclear whorls three; su- 

 ture undulating, particularly upon body- 

 whorl; sculpture consisting of rather fine 

 growth-lines and indistinct broken spiral 

 and oblique striae, together with a few 

 broken Incised lines, widely spaced; 

 ground color and interior ivory, overlaid 

 with a yellowish brown pattern, forming 

 irregularly shaped triangular tent-like 

 markings of ivory; aperture broad; columel- 

 la with five, sharp, rather elevated plaits, 

 the anterior plait descending vertically 

 in a long sweep to the anterior termina- 

 tion; peripheral spines comparatively 

 short, partially hollow, rather sharp, 

 each one extended anteriorly upon the body 

 whorl to form a longitudinal rounded rib, 

 the latter extending only half way to the 

 anterior end. 



Aulica scafa (Solander) I786 

 (Plate 17, Figures 118-120) 



Valuta scafa Solander, Portland Cat., I786, 



no. 969a, p. 136. 

 Valuta uolva Gmelin, Syst. Nat. Ed. I3, 



p. 3457, 1791. 

 Valuta punctata Kiener (not Swainson). 

 Valuta flavicans Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 



p. 3464, 1788. Reeve 



pl. 19, fig. 45, 1849 



Conch, vol. 4, p. 91, 



1882. 

 Valuta valuacea Lamarck, Ann. Mus . Hist 



Nat. (Paris) vol. 17, I8II. Sowerby 



Thes. Conch, vol. 1, p. 195, 



figs. 3-4; also pl. 51, fig. 



3, Ist suppl. p. 269. 

 Valuta siinifer Broderip, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



London, 1847, p. 232. Tryon: Man. 



Conch, vol. 4, p. 91, (according to 



Tryon V. slinl fer ±3 an elongated flav- 

 icans with a lip not quite mature). 



Alt. 65-80 mm. 



Hab. Tasmania; Straits of Magellan? 



: Conch. Icon., 

 Tryon : Man . . 

 pl. 26, fig. 71, 



pl. 46, 

 61?; vol. 



