OLIVA 



Species 40. (Fig. a, b, Mus. Steere.) 

 Oliva Stainfohthii. OUv. ieda ovatd, crassd, mpm 

 medium pecuUarUer tumidd, spird brevi, acwiiiiiatd, 

 plim coluniellaribua fortibas, latiusculis ; alba, punctk 

 rufescentibus, griseo-mnbrath, evanidi append, maculis 

 perpauck nigricantibus sparsim bifasciatim notatd, 

 juxta mituras immaculaid, columelld et aperturce fauce 

 eburneis. 

 Stainforth's Olive. Shell ovate, thick, peculiarly 

 swollen above the middle, spire short, acuminated, 

 columellar plaits strong, rather broad ; white, faintly 

 sprinkled with grey-shaded reddish dots, and marked 

 with a very few blackish blotches disposed in two 

 bands, unspotted next the sutui-es, columella and iu- 

 terior of the aperture ivory-white. 

 Hub. ■? 



A new and very distinct species, in the collection of 

 .Miss Steere, which gives me an opportunity of recording 

 my sense of the valuable additions which have been made 

 to our knowledge of this genus by the communicated ex- 

 perience of the Rev. F. J. Stainforth. 



Species 41. (Mus. Steere.) 

 Oliva fla.mmulata. OUv. testa cyliiidraceo-ovatd, spird 

 subacumiaatd, pUcis columellaribus subevauidis ; al- 

 bidd, canieo-fusco reticulatd, areis reticulatis hie illic 

 perampUs, columella basi fuscescente tiiidd, apertura 

 fauce alba. 

 The FLAiiE-JiARKED Olive. Shell cylindricaUy ovate, 

 sjiire somewhat acuminated, columellar plaits rather 

 faint ; whitish, reticulated with ttesh-browu, the re- 

 ticulated spaces being here and there very large, 

 columella tinged with light brown, interior of the 

 apertm'e white. 

 Lamarck, Anim. sans vert. (Deshaycs' edit.) vol. x. p. ('>13. 

 Ilab. West Indies. 



This species is very closely allied to (). reticulata, but 

 diflers in not having the net -work gathered in clusters of 

 lines at the sutures. The net-work spaces are here and 

 there remarkably large, especially on the npper surface of 

 the last whorl, which, in the accompanying figure, has 

 been inadvertently tm-ned from the observer. 



42. (Fig. a, Mus. Steere ; Fig. b, 

 Mus. Cuming.) 



Oliva australis. OUv. testa ohlongo-cylindraced, spird 

 exsertd, columelld medio suhcompressd, plicis numerosii, 

 eetate cito evaiddis ; alhidd, lineis undulatis cinereo- 

 purpureis, scepe promiscuis, omatd, anfractuttm mar- 

 gine suturali punctato, columelld et aperturm fauce 

 eburneis. 



The southern Olive. Shell oblong-cj-liudrical, spire 

 exserted, columella shghtly compressed in the middle, 

 plaits numerous, soon failing with age ; whitish, or- 

 namented \vith waved pui-ple-ash lines, which are 

 often promiscuous, sutm'al edge of the whorls dotted, 

 columella and interior of the aperture ivory-white. 



IHcLOs, Mon. Oliv. pi. 8. f. 3, 4. 



Uah. ? 



The waved marking of this species appears to lie in- 

 varialily of an ash-purple colour. It is of an oblong-cyhn- 

 drical form, and very distinctly characterized. 



Species 43. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Oliva Indusica. OUv. testd ovatd, temdculd, medio gib- 

 boso-injlatd, spird brevi, columelld medio depresso-cou- 

 cavd, plicis planulatis, aperturd snbpatuld ; albd, 

 puHctis fuscescentibus, promiscue undulatis, aspersd, 

 margine suturali strigis fuscis irregularibus oriiato, 

 basi zona fuscescente cingulatd, columelld albd, aper- 

 tures fauce ferrugined. 



The Indus Olive. Shell ovate, rather thin, gibbously 

 inflated in the middle, spire short, columella de- 

 pressly concave in the middle, plaits somewhat flat- 

 tened, aperture rather wide open; white, sprinkled 

 with light brown dots, promiscuously waved, sutural 

 margin ornamented with irregular brow-n streaks, 

 base encircled with a light brown zone, columella 

 white, interior of the aperture rust-brown. 



ILib. Kurrachee, mouth of the Indus. 



.Vn interesting new species, allied to 0. hiatula and 



testacea. The surface of the shell is freckled throughout 



mth faint brown dots disposed in promiscuous waves, 



and the sutural edge of the whorls is conspicuously 



streaked. 



