16 PLUXINA — TORINIA. 



umbilicus ; color fulvous ; base with numerous concentric im- 

 pressed lines; aperture subpyriform. Diara. 1 inch. 



Mediterranean. 



S. pseudojjerspectivum of authors (not Brocchi), is a synon^-ra, 



to which may be added S. sulcatum, 0. G. Costa, 1841 (not of 



Lamarck, 1822), and S. pulchellum, Tiber!, 1868 (not of Miche- 



lotti, 1841). 



S. LUTEUM, Lam. PI. 5, fig. 11, 72. 



Umbilical crenulations white; whorls few, somewhat rounded, 

 ribbed at the periphery, spirally sulcate and ribbed below the 

 periphery ; color yellowish with bands of very fine brown dots 

 below the suture, and on the ribs about the periphery ; Ipase 

 slightl}^ convex, spirally striated ; aperture subrotiind. 



Diam. 1*5 mill. 



Australia. 

 S. CONULUS, Weinkauff". PI. 5, fig. 73, 74. 



Shell conical; umbilical crenulations white; whorls few, 

 rounded, ribbed at the periphery, spirall}^ sulcate and ribbed below 

 the periphery; color brownish-j^ellow, the ribs at the periphery 

 obscurely spotted with white; aperture subrotund. Diam. 13 mill. 



3Iediterranea7i. 



S. hybridiim, Monts. and Petit (not Linn.), is a synonym. 



This species, which many authors include in the synonymy of 

 the preceding, diflers from it in being more elevated, in the 

 darker color, in the absence of the band below the suture and 

 in the obscure banding of the ribs about the perij)hery. 



Genus FLUXINA, Ball, 1882. 

 F. BRUNNEA, Dall (un figured). West Indies. 



Subfamily TORINIINjE. 

 Genus TORINIA, Gray, 1840. 

 Subgenus Torinia (restricted). 

 T. variegata, Gmelin. PI. 5, figs. 75-79 ; PI. 1, figs. 14-16. 



Shell depressed or conically elevated ; whorls longitudinally 

 striated, spirally sulcate and ten-ribbed, that on the periphery 

 and the one below it being the strongest; color radiating, alter- 



