16() SEMINELLA. 



revolving striae at the base of tlie body-whorl, subtranslucent, 

 shining, with a lighter band at the sutures and an interrupted 

 brown line below it, another light band below the periphery, and 

 the basal portion of the body-whorl checkered with brown spots ; 

 aperture narrow, the lip minutely denticulated within. 



Length, S'lS mill. 



Neio Caledonia; Papua (Tapparone-Canefri). 



C. Peasei, vori Martens. 



Shell fusiform, minute, attenuated at both ends, longitudinally 

 ribbed ; color variable, light brown with transvei'se lines of a 

 darker color encircling the whorls, or with longitudinal undu- 

 lating lines, or ornamented with oblong square brown spots, or 

 light brown dotted with white. Length, 3*5 mill. 



Sandwich Islands. 

 C. ciiAssiLABRis, Recve. PI. 56, fig. 90. 



Shell ovate, finely cancellated ; yellowish, encircled with two 

 bands of red-brown arrow-headed marks, purple-spotted at the 

 base ; spire rather short, sharp ; aperture small, lip very thick, 



varicose. 



Habitat unknown. , 



I am not acquainted with this species. The figure is probably 

 much enlarged, although it bears no size-mark. 



C. PYGM^A, Sowb. PI. 56, figs. 91, 92. 



Whorls obliquely ribbed above ; white, with three revolving 

 rows of chestnut spots, sometimes coalescing into blotches. 



Length, 6 mill. 



West Columbia, Cape St. Lucas. 



C. ATOMELLA, Duclos. PI. 56, fig. 93. 



Shell pure white, longitudinally ribbed ; aperture peculiarly 

 contracted by a plate-like thickening of the inner margin of the 



outer lip. Length, 8 mill. 



Habitat unknown. 

 This shell has not been described. C. ornafa, Pease (not 

 Kavenel), has been distributed under this name, and Reeve has 

 figured for it G. atr'ata, Gould. 



C. Garretti, Tryon. PI. 56, fig. 94. 



Shell rather stoutly fusiform ; spire slender, elongate ; longi- 

 tudinal ribs rounded, prominent, contiguous, sometimes becoming 



