POTAMIDE8. 167 



L. ZONALE, Brug. PI. 34, %s. 3, 4 ; PI. 35, fig. 14. 



Obscurely longitudinally plaited, forming slight tubercles on the 

 shoulder of the whorls, spirally sulcated ; chocolate brown, white 

 banded on the shoulder. Length, 1*5 in. 



Honykong (Stimpson) ; Japan (Lischke). 



It is L. ^njrenale, Quoy. 



Var. ATERRiMA, Duulcer. Fig. 14. ♦ 



Shell unicolored, dark chocolate. 



Japan. 



L. ATRAMENTARIA, A. Ad. PI. 34, fig. 5. 



Whorls somewhat inflated below, spirally sulcate ; dark chocolate 

 or obscurely tessellated ; white at the suture ; columella arched, 

 Avhite. Length, 1"5 in. 



Hab. unknoivn. 



L. MULTIFORMIS, Lischke. PI. 35, fig. 13 ; PI. 34, figs. 6, 8. 



Short, club-shaped, spirally striate, sometimes with longitudinal 

 ribs, stronger at the suture ; chocolate color, or tessellated or banded 

 with white. Length, 1 in. 



Japan. 



L. Cumingii of Reeve's Iconica (not Crosse). 



L. ANGULIFERA, Sowb. PI. 35, fig. 17. 



Whorls flat, angulated on the body-whorl, longitudinally plaited, 

 cut into tubercles by three spiral grooves ; brownish or olivaceous- 

 black ; aperture grooved. Length, 1 in. 



Australia. 



Section Lampanella, Morch, 1876. 



L. minimus, Gmelin. PI. 34, figs, 9-11. 



Longitudinally obscurely ribbed, ribs fading towards the middle 

 of the body whorl, spirally ridged, ridges beaded, more nodose 

 above ; black (epidermis olivaceous), often with a white sutural 

 band, or Avhite with a central black band, or chestnut or chocolate 

 colored or white or yellowish brown, sometimes white with chocolate 

 lines, interior chocolate brown. Length, 15 mill. ' 



So. Carolina to West Indies; Bermuda. 



I have endeavored vainly to separate into several species, as 

 Morch has done, this very variable form ; the coloring patterns 

 have not sufficient constancy for even varietal distinction. The 

 synonyms are : 



