VERMETUS. 185 



y. G^DAROPi, Morch ( V. turboides^ Cbieregh.). 



? Spain on Spondylus. 

 V. piCTUS, Morch, and Viir. turboides. Uast Indies. 



y. TEXTUM, Morch, and yars. scaptoides and unguiculata. 



Philippines. 

 y. suBCRENATUs, Lam. East Indies, Philijjpines. 



yars. SQUAMULOSA, BIFUNICULARIS, CRISTATA, SUBDECUSSATA, aud 



spiNOSA, Miirch. 



y. DaCost^e, Morch (PI. 55, fig. 91). Hab. unknown. 



y. PLATYPUS, Morch. Sandwich Is. 



y. TEREDULA, Morch. ? Morocco. 



y. LEUCOZONIAS, Morch. W. Africa. 



y. MEGAMASTUM, Morch (PI. 55, fig. 93), and yar. imbricatus, 



Carp. California. 



? y. Adamsii, Morch. ? Borneo, Japan. 



y. PLiCARiA, Lam. Australia. 



Subgenus Stephopoma, Morch, 1860. 



y. ROSEUS, Qiioy and Gaimard. PI. 55, fig. 94. 



Shell small, spirally twisted, cylindrical, rugose, rose-colored. 

 Operculum round, brownish, multispira bearing a large number 



of divergent multifid corneous hairs. 



New Zealand. 

 y. PENNATUS, Morch. PI. 55, figs. 95, 96. 



Solitary, spirally angulately twisted, with open umbilicus; 

 whorls obsoletely quadrangular or pentagonal, closely longitu- 

 dinally lirulate, incremental striae irregular; white, brownish or 



A'ariegated. 



W. Coast of Central America. 



Mcirch desci'ibes a var. bispinosa, distinguished by a different 

 form in the bristles of the operculum, when viewed under a lens. 



Unfigured Species. 



y. SENTicosus, Miirch. Hab. unknown. 



y. TRicuspis, Morch. Australis. 



y. Lyngbyanus, Morch. Denmark. 



