GIBBULA. 



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angiilate in the middle, a little convex beneath, provided with about 



8 flat concentric lirae; aperture subrhomboidal, lip plicate within, 



basal margin crenate ; columella oblique, sub-truncate below. 



Alt. 5, diam. 6 mill. (Fiacher.) 



Ceylon. 



G. blavfordiana Nevill, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng., xxxviii, 1869, 

 p. 158, t. 17, f. 9.— Fischer, Coq. Viv., p. 265, t. 88, f. 3. 



The size mark was omitted on pi. 62, f. 65. Nevill's original 

 figure is copied on pi. 37, fig. 32. 



G. ciCER Menke. PL 62, fig. 75 ; pi. 26, figs. 18, 19. 



Shell perforate or subperforate, globose-(;onical, solid, whitish, 

 longitudinally striped with reddish or dark brown, the stripes often 

 broken into tessellations on the base ; whorls about 5, convex, the 

 first two yellow or rosy, smooth, the remainder coarsely spirally 

 lirate, the lirte about 6 or 7 on the penultimate whorl, separated by 

 deep interstices which sometimes interrupt the stripes of color; 

 spire short ; body-whorl rounded ; base convex, finely marked with 

 about 8 narrow lii'te; aperture subcircular, smooth and white with- 

 in ; columella ai'cuate, straightened in the middle and oblique, very 

 obsoletely subdentate below ; umbilical area small, white or yellow- 

 ish ; base fVequently suftused with pink. Alt. 7, diam. 6 mill. 



Cape Region of S. Africa. 



T. cicer Mke., in Philippi, Abbild. u. Beschreib., i, Troehus, t. 3, 

 f. 5. (18U).— Conchy L Cab., ]i. 197, t. 29, f. 24.— Fischer, Coq. Viv., 

 p. 264, t. 88, f. 2. — Gibbula nmsiva Gould, Otia Conch., p. 159. — 

 Leptothyra cicer Piesbry, Manual of Conch., x, p. 254, t. 54, f. 62. 



— Turbo sanguineus Reeve, Conch. Icon., t. 12, f. 55 ? (not of Linn.). 



— Turbo roseus Philippi, Concliyl. Cab., p. 85, t. 19, f. 10 (?). 



G. cicer is reported from Japan by Schrenck. {Amurl. Moll. p. 352.) 

 G. bexzi Krauss. PI. 51, figs. 13, 14. 



Shell orbicular-conoid, perforate, purplish, maculate with whitish, 

 orange or rose, irregularly transversely costate-striate ; whorls 5, 

 convex, sejiarated by a distinct suture, the last ventricose, subangu- 

 lar in the middle ; base convex, striate ; aperture rotund-quadrate, 

 white within ; columella oblique, concave, dilated above ; umbilicus 

 profound, narrow. Alt. 8, diam. 9 mill. {Krauss.^ 



Cape of Good Hope. 



The transverse stria; are crowded, blunt, and very unequal above, 

 on the base rather regular and elevated. Young examples are 



