112 VERMETUS. 



the same species. The varietj' (below) is still more like the V. 

 cereus, which perhaps will itself prove to be merely a variety 

 when more specimens have been compared." — Morch. 



Yar. DiLATATA, Morch. Whorls a little flattened, suture 

 depressed, dilated, the strong tranverse rugjie approximating. 

 This variety is from the Red Sea, to which locality the type also 

 probably belongs. 



Y. CEREUS, Carp. PI. 48, fig. 15. 



Solitar}'', attached, orange-color, with depressed whitish 

 sutures, the attached side with a series of nodules which, writes 

 Morch, are the impressions of a coral. There is no sculpture, 

 the specimen appearing as though it had been attacked by acid. 

 It is a large species, the penultimate whorl having a diameter of 

 6-7 mill., the aperture of 4-7o mill. Lateral interior lamellge 



about central. 



Fhili2:>pines. 

 Morch has Yars. gymnggastra and tenuis. 



Y. carinatus, Quoy. PI. 49, fig. 30. 



Widely irregularly coiled, carinated, somewhat triangular, 

 transversely striated, yellowish ash-color, aperture rounded 

 within. 



Isl. Guam. 



" I have seen forms which I regard as intermediate between 

 V. octosectus, Carp., and V. cereus. Carp., approaching to this." 

 — Morch. 



Y. lilacinus, Morch. PI. 49, fig. 31. 



Aggregated, subcylindrical, spirally twisted, purplish, whorls 

 contiguous with dilated white suture, longitudinal lirse obsolete, 

 remote, incremental rugae generally remote, stronger towards 

 the aperture, last whorl slightlj' protracted ; parietal laminae 

 very short (broken ?), approximating to the columella, median 



columellar lira somewhat acute. 



Zanzibar. 

 Section Petalgconchus, Lea, 1843. 



Y. subcancellatus, Bivona. PL 49, fig. 82. 



Solitarj^, or more rarely gregarious, reclining, almost entirely 

 affixed, irregularly spiral, with the whorls in contact, brownish, 

 surface subcancellated bj' longitudinal and transverse strire, the 



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