SOLIDULA. 145 



S. FUMATA Reeve. PI. 20 A, fig. above fig. 51. 



Shell narrowly ovate, transversely densely linearly grooved 

 throughout ; fulvous white, irregularly smeared with black ; spire 

 rather exserted; columella two-plaited, the lower plait strongly 

 duplicate. {Rve.) 



Australia. 



Tornatelht fumata RvE., Conch. Icon., xv, pi. 3, f. 10. 



The disposition of the coloring matter, which is not an unimpor- 

 tant feature in this genus, is in longitudinal smears, not arising, as 

 in varieties of T. solidula, from confusion in a normal pattern of 

 dots. {Rve.) 



S. ALVEOLA Souverbie. PI. 18, figs. 84, 85. 



Shell ovate-conic, spirally and inequidistantly striate-punctate ; 

 white spotted with fleshy-rose color, the spots square, situated on the 

 spaces between the stride, arranged in transverse rows, and wanting 

 on the fourth and eighth spaces ; spire exserted, conic-acute ; whorls 

 8, the last nearly two-thirds the total length ; aperture oblong, nar- 

 row above ; columella biplicate, the larger fold sub-bilobed. 



Alt. 11, diam. 5 mill.; aperture, alt. 7 mill. (Souv.). 



Island of Art, New Caledonia. 



Tornatella alveola Souv., Journ. de Conchyl. 1863, p. 167, pi. 5, 

 f. 9. 



In the single example from Avhich this species was described, the 

 fourth space between punctured strige is double the width of the 

 adjacent spaces. 



S. INTERMEDIA Angas. PI. 20A, figs. 55, 56. 



Shell elongately ovate, solid, shining, white, painted with two 

 bands of irregular descending brown flames and spots; spire acum- 

 inate, pointed at the apex, the same length as the aperture ; whorls 

 62, encircled by numerous grooved and finely punctured stripe, that 

 become obsolete on the centre of the last whorl ; sutures strongly 

 impressed ; outer lip simple, thin, non-arcuate ; columella with a 

 strong bilobed fold near the base, and a smaller projecting plate 

 above it ; inner lip with a broad spreading callus. (^Ang.). 



Alt. 9, diam. 3 mill. 



Aldinga Bay, S. Australia (Angas). 



Buccinulus iniermedius Anc4., P. Z. S. 1878, p. 862, pi. 54, f. 11. 



