PHASIANELLA — ALCYXA. 181 



articulated with white, at sutures brownish, variegated and flanimu- 

 late with white; spire subacuminate, apex obtuse, rose colored; whorls 

 6, slightly convex, the last large, convex; aperture ovate, white, 

 columellar and parietal margins callous. Alt. 24, diam. 12 mill. 



Tasmcuna; Port Elliott, S. Anstralia. 



P. GRAEFFEi Duukcr, 1875. PL 39, figs. 81, 82. 



Small, ovate-pointed, rather thin, smooth, glabrous below sutures, 

 with 6 convex whorls, the apex usually pink, balance of shell light 

 brown or yellowish, with distant narroAV revolving lines of red or 

 brown articulated or interrupted with white, encircling the whorls, 

 over a varial)le clouding of rich or blackish brown, generally with 

 short flammules below the sutures of alternate light and dark; aper- 

 ture shorter than spire, ovate; margins neai'ly equally curved. 



Alt. 10, diam 6 mill. Samoan and Viti Is. 



P. wisEMAXNi Baird, 1873. PI. 39, figs. 73, 74. • 



'' Shell small, polished ; whorls 5=1, apex rather obtuse and black- 

 ish ; the remaining whorls yellowish with transverse pink bands, 

 the body whorl having seven or eight of these, also marked through- 

 out with brown spiral hair-like lines. Beneath the sutural line there 

 are alternately blackish and white blotches, the latter being produced 

 zigzagly over the whorls ; aperture subcircular, equalling the spire 

 in length." Alt. 7 mill. 



Netv Hebrides. 

 A variety is described with shell of lighter color, only slight indi- 

 cations of pink bands, but with the same subsutural dark and light 

 blotches. 



P. VIRGO Angas, 1867. PI. 39, fig. 93. 



" Minute, rather thin, globosely conical, white ; whorls 4, the last 

 ventricose, and painted with fine undulating pink lines, darker at 

 sutures, where they are separated by several broad descending white 

 flammules, the lower portion of the last whorl encircled by a row of 

 white spots ; columella slightly excavated, white." Alt. 2 mill. 



Coodgee Bay, N. S. Wales, Australia. 



Sometimes su])perf »rate. The peculiar dentition is figured on PI. 

 60, fig. 70. 



Genus Alcyna A. Adams, 1860. 



Shell minute, similar in form to Phasianella; aperture ovate; 

 columella with a heavy callus, bearing near the base a strong curved 



