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E. PAPILLARIS, Sowerb}^ PL 82, fig. 460. 



Surface covered with small spots ; shoulder scarcely angulated ; 



umbilical region narrow, covered. Length, I'lb inches. 



Cape of Good Hope. 

 A rare species. 



E. Zeylanica, Brug. PI. 82, figs. 4G1, 462. 



Painted with oblique blotches below the sutures, and in a 

 revolving series near the base ; other spots smaller ; shoulder 

 rounded, scarcel}' apparent; umbilicus open, its margin some- 

 times tuberculated and tinged with violet. 



Length, 2-2*'75 inches. 



Ceylon. 

 E. Japonica, Sowb. PI. 82, tig. 4<;3. 



Shorter than E. Zeylanica, with narrower umbilicus ; the 

 painting of the same pattern, but the spots much smaller and 

 more numerous. Length, 2-2'5 inches. 



Japan. 



Mr. Arthur Adams has described the animal of this species.* 

 He saj's : The tentacles are ringed with red brown, and speckled 

 with light yellow ; and the siphon is spotted with yellowish white, 

 and irregularly banded with red brown lines. The foot (long, 

 large, thick, and fleshy, like that of Buccinum), is transversely 

 banded with irregular red brown lines and minutely spotted with 

 pale 3'ellow. The sole is also edged with pale yellow. At the 

 caudal extremity of the foot there is a single conspicuous cylin- 

 drical terminal filament. He obtained living specimens from 35 

 fathoms, ofl" Tsu-saki, in Japan. 



E. Formosa, Sowb. PL 82, fig-. 4^5. 



Coloring, large brown blotches, more or less confluent into 

 longitudinal zigzag markings ; no spots. Length, 1-.5 inches. 



Island of Formosa. 

 E. lutosa. Lam. PL 82, fig. 405. 



Blotches of color pale and irregular, rarely in spots, usually 

 arranged in an upper liroad, and two inferior and narrower re- 

 volving series, separated by narrow white spaces. The epidermis, 

 usually orange-bi'own, is more persistent upon this than on any 

 other species except E. spirata. Length, 2-2"5 inches. 



China. 



* Ann. Mag. N. Hist., 3.ser,, xiii, 1864. 



