act^t:on. 151 



A. pudicus Ad., P. Z. S. 1854, p. GO. — Tornatella 2)udica Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon, xv, pi. 3, f. 13. 



Described from one dead specimen. 

 A. viRGATUS Reeve. Pi. 20A, figs. 63, 64. 



Shell stoutly ovate ; transversely finely linearly grooved through- 

 out ; ivory-white, conspicuously obliquely streaked with black ; 

 spire short, rather obtuse, apex sharp ; columella one-plaited. 

 {Rve.). 



Mashate, Philippines, in 7 fras. (Cuming). 



Tornatella virgata RvE., P. Z. S. 1842, p. 60; Conch. Syst. ii, pi. 

 206, f. 8, 9 ; Conch. Icon, xv, pi. 2, f. 8. 



A. FLAMMEUS Gmclin. PI. 20A, figs. 58, 59. 



Shell stoutly ovate, closely and densely punctured-grooved 

 throughout ; Avhite, streaked with reddish flames or crescent-shaped 

 spots. Spire rather short. Columella strongly one-plaited. (Rve.). 



Java ; Ishmds of Ticao and Correjidor, Philippines, in 7 fms. 

 (Cuming); off Nuhtloja, Tongatabu, 18 fms. ; Levuka, Fiji, 12 fms. ; 

 Off southwest point of Papua, 28 fms. (Challenger); Torres Strai. 

 (Brazier) ; East Africa, Querimber Is. and Mauritius (Martens). 



Voluta flammea Gmel., Syst. Nat. xiii, p. 3435 (excl. yar.).—Bul- 

 imus variegatus Brug., Encycl. Meth. vers, i, p. 336, pi. 452, f. 1 

 (^Tornatella fiammea). — Tornatella fiammea Lam., An. s. Vert, vi, p 

 219. — SowB., Genera, ii, f. 1. — Kiener, Coq. Viv. Torn., p. 1 

 pi, 1, f. 1. — Reeve, Conch. Icon, xv, pi. 1, f. 2. — Martens, Moll 

 Mauritius, in Mobius' Reise, p. 303 ; Monatsber. Berl. Akad. 1879, p 

 739. — Actceon jiammeus A. Ad., P. Z. S. 1854, p. 59. — Brazier 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Wales, ii, 1878, p. 75, — Watson, Chall. Rep 

 Gastr., p. 626. 



The young shell has an umbilical chink. 

 A. ORYZA Reeve, PI, 18, fig. 82. 



Shell ovate, rather solid, transversely linearly grooved through- 

 out ; ivory white ; columella rather prominently one-plaited. (Eve.). 



Cathalonga, Luzon, Philipjnnes (Cuming) ; Manritius (Lienard) ; 

 Reunion (Desh,). 



Tornatella oryza RvE., P, Z, S. 1842, p. 62 ; Conch. Icon, xv, pi. 

 4, f, 18, — Desh,, Catal, Moll. Reunion, p. 57. — Martens, in Mobius' 

 Reise n. Mauritius, p. 302. 



