MONILEA. 249 



T. patricius Phil. Zeitschr. f. Mai. 1851, aod Concliyl. Cab., p. 

 326, t. 46, f. 11.— Fischer, Coq. Viv., p. 277, t. 91, f. I.—Monilea 

 kalisoma A. Ad. P. Z. S. 1851, p. 188. 



The locality given above is very doubtful. 



M. STRIATULA Garrett. PI. 61, figs. 19, 20. 



Shell narrowly umbilicate, rather thin, shining, ajjparently smooth, 

 but under a lens seen to be covered with a fine decussated pattern 

 of close oblique striae cut by coarser engraved spiral lines ; color 

 whitish-rosy, white or buflf, mottled with brown, rose or fawn-color, 

 and spirally encircled by several very narrow lines of articulated 

 white and brown; spiral conical, apex acute, sutures well im- 

 pressed ; whorls 5 to 6, convex, the last obtusely subangular at the 

 periphery, convex beneath ; aperture subcircular, oblique, within 

 very delicately sulcate or nearly smooth, lined with a thin, silky, 

 iridescent milky-bluish nacre; outer lip acute, thin ; columeHa regu- 

 larly arcuate, not toothed below, produced in a thin olive-colored 

 lobe partly over the umbilicus; umbilicus narrow, deeply spirally 

 grooved within. 



Alt. 6, diam. 8 mill ; alt. 11, diam. 14 mill. 



Vit'i Is.; Hawaii. 



Trochus striatula Garrett, Proc. Cal. Acad, i, p. 102. (1857.) 

 A small shining, smooth species, with rounded whorls and beauti- 

 ful microscopic surface decussation. The specimens from which the 

 above description was drawn are from the Viti Is., collected by 

 Garrett. 



M. viTiLiGiNEUS Menke. PI. 41, fig. 28. 



Shell umbilicate, conoidal, rather thin ; whorls 6, convex, the 

 first smooth, whitish, the remainder corneous-fulvous, maculate 

 above with white or brown, ornamented with narrow remote articu- 

 lated zones, flattened-sloping above, angulate, very delicately obliquely 

 striate, spirally very finely lirulate ; last whorl angular, convex 

 beneath ; base ornamented with several concentric brown and white 

 articulated lines, radiately and spirally striated ; aperture subquad- 

 rate, margins thin ; columella oblique, reflexed outward into a 

 linguiform lobe ; umbilicus with a spiral funicle terminating in the 

 columellar lobe. Alt. 8, diam. 11 mill. (Fischer.) 



Port Jackson and St. Vincents Gulf , Australia ; N. Australia; 

 Philippines ; Japan. 



