SOLETELLINA.— Plate I. 



dermis, anterior side broadly rounded, posterior side 



shorter, somewhat attenuately beaked. 

 Deshayes, MS., Mus. Cuming. 

 Hal. Port Adelaide, Australia. 



More convex than the preceding species, and differing 

 also in being roughly plicately striated, covered with a 

 peculiarly glittering transparent deciduous horny epider- 



Species 4. (Mus. Cuming.) 

 SoLETELLiNA CuMiNGiANA. Sol. testd oblongo-tratisversS, 

 compressiusculd, ceguilaierali, rugoso-striata, purpu- 

 rmcmtt-caruled, postice biradiatd, epidermlde oUvaced 



indutd, lateribus superni subatjiiatiler reetis, autico 

 late rolmtdato, posdco oblique rotundato, subflexuoso- 

 impresno. 



Cuming's Soletellina. Shell oblong-trausverse, rather 

 compressed, equilateral, roughly striated, purple-blue, 

 posteriorly two-rayed, covered with an olive epider- 

 mis, sides almost equally straight at the upper part, 

 anterior broadly rounded, posterior obliquely rounded, 

 slightly flexuously impressed. 



Deshayes, MS., Mus. Cuming. 



Hab. Island of Negros, Pliilippines ; Cuming. 



Tiie form of this elegaut species is simply oblong-ovate, 



the anterior side being the broader, whilst the posterior is 



but slightly flexuously impressed. 



