SCALARIA. 83 



siMral stria^, mouth encircled with a strong varix. Length, 4 mill. 



Torres Sts., N. Australia. 



Section Ackilla, H. Adams, 1860. 



S. ACUMINATA, Sowb. PI. 17, figs. 30, 35. 



Narrow, with 15 somewhat convex whorls, pale fulvous, with two 

 chestnut bands, and very numerous, close longitudinal, curved 

 stride, base keeled. Length, 1'5-1*75 in. 



Malacca, Japan. 

 S. FuscA, Sowb. PI. 17, fig. 37. 



Narrow, with 9 somewhat convex whorls, yellowish brown with 

 longitudinal chestnut flames, spirally very finely striated. 

 Length, 22 mill. 



Sierra Leone. 

 S. MixoR, Sowb. PI. 17, fig. 38. 



Whoi'ls 8, well rounded, a little angular above, yellowish Ijrown, 

 with two spiral chestnut bands, obliquely, longitudinally sinuously 

 ridged, with a single sj^iral ridge at the lower part of the Ijody 

 Avhorl, and chestnut colored below it. Length, 18 mill. 



Mouth of the Indus. 



Described by A. Adams under the preoccujiied name of gracilis. 

 Its nearest ally is S. acuminata. 



S. PR.T3LONGA, Jeffreys. PI. 17, fig. 36. 



Whorls 12-15, convex, gradually enlarging, with numerous sub- 

 distant, oblique, curved, riblets, and about 5 spiral stria?, whorls 

 angulated in the middle, base with a spiral keel, and smooth below 

 it. Length, 17"5 mill. 



K Atlantic. 



Unfigured Species. 



S. FORMOSA (for S. pulcherrima, INIts., not Sowb.), S. hispidula 

 and S. STRIATI8SIMA, iNIonts. Mediterranean. 



S. RUPICOLA, Kurtz. N. Carolina. 



S. LEPTALEA, Bush. K. Carolina. 



S. suBVARicosA (Dkr. Ms.), S. scteve, S. pilaris, S. ^eospila, S. 

 PRETiosvLA, S. TURRiTELLULA, and var. Riisei, S. octocostata, 



S. QUIXDECEMCOSTATA, S. MICROMPHALA, S. ERECTISPIXA, S. 



voLUBiLis, S. SPix.E-ROS.E, S. SPURIA (S. jiseudo-scalata, Chenin.), 

 S, xovEMCOSTATA, all of Morch. West Indies. 



