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Eleuchus vulgaris a. Ad. Testa ovato-conoidea, subturrita, im- 

 perforata, laevigata, virenti, trausversim tenuissime striata ; lineis 

 undulatis viridis picta; basi convexa ; apertura ovata ; columella 

 basi dente acuto termiuata; labro postice subangulato. (A. Ad.) 



Sivan River. 



A. Adams, in P. Z. S. 1851, p. 171. 

 Thalotia tesselata Tenison-Woods. 



Shell small, subumbilicate, conical, pale olive, spotted or tessel- 

 lated with white; whorls 7, sub-convex, everywhere finely obliquely> 

 spirally transversely striate ; furnished with five keels which are 

 broad, flattened, and the upper and lower ones broader and more 

 prominent ; base convex, keeled ; aperture sub-quadrate, outer 

 lip acute, thin, margined within , inner lip white, conspicuous ; 

 throat silvery nacreous, lirate. The interstices between the keels 

 sometimes striate. Alt. 6, diam. 42 mill. {Ten.-Woods.) 



Tasmania. 



Tenison-Woods, in Trans, and Proc. Roy. Soc. A^ict. xiv, p. 58. 

 (1877). 



Thalotia dlbia Tenison-Woods. 



Shell turbinately conical, solid, whorls intensely rose-purjile and 

 rose flamed ; whorls 7, convex (the four spiral flattened) keels 4, 

 small, distant, conspicuously granular; granules small, neat, and 

 rose-purple in color ; interstices clothed with a yellow silky perio- 

 straca ; suture deep, broadly canaliculate ; base flattened, spirally 

 lirate and radiately striate ; aperture sub-quadrate, thickened, con- 

 spicuously raultidentate ; columella tuberculate, margined and 

 closely toothed. Alt. 18, diam. 15 mill. 



In general form resembling T. eonica, but smaller, and more 

 closely ornamented. The mouth is also an approach to a Chtnculus. 

 ( Tenison- Woods.) 



Clark's Islands. 



Tenison-Woods, in Trans, and Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict, xiv, p. 59 

 (1877). 

 Thalotia maeginata Tenison-Woods. 



Shell narrowly conical, oblique, solid, tessellated with small olive 

 or purjile spots; whorls 82, concave above, below broadly carinate 

 or marginate, girdled with four lines of granules, of wliich the up- 

 permost is often the largest, closely decussate with oblique squamose 

 striie ; keel elevated, somewhat flattened, and i^rojecting over the 



