HALIOTES. 



105 



A form variable and rather bright in coloration, distinguished by 

 its long oval form, numerous perforations and spiral liration. The 

 following seem to be varietal modifications. 



Var. tayloriana Reeve. PI. 15, fig. 83. 



Shell oblong-ovate rather solid, convex, spire nearly terminal ; 

 spirally obtusely and irrrgularly ridged ; seven to nine perforations 

 open ; exterior scarlet-brown, clouded near the spire with yellow 

 spotted with scarlet-brown. Interior white. (Reeve.) 



Habitat unknown. 



H. tayloriana Rve., Conch. Icon., f. 43. — Weinkauff, Conchyl- 

 ien Cabinet, p. 57, t. 13, f. 1, 4 ; t. 22, f. 3, 4. 



Var. gruneri Philippi. PI. 47, figs. 1, 2 ; pi. 6, fig. 31. 



Shell elliptical, moderately but equally convex, rufous, almost 

 unicolored ; sculptured with 35 to 40 elevated, spiral lira?, alter- 

 nately larger and smaller, between spire and perforations, and 

 about 9 irregular ones on the columellar slope ; open j)erforations 

 7, little produced. 



The form of this species is almost exactly elliptical ; the con- 

 vexity even, without the depression so prominent as in H. sanguinea, 

 speciosa, etc. The segment between the row of holes and the colu- 

 mella is also evenly curved. The wave-like folds, parallel to the 

 lip-edge are wanting or indistinct. The elevated spiral lira? are very 

 regular, alternating broader and narrower, separated by narrow 

 deep furrows, and cut by close growth-stria?. The spire is very 

 small, and stands almost perpendicularly over the margin. The 

 color is brown-red, almost concolored, but whitish with beautiful 

 red flecks toward the spire. The inner lip lies completely horizontal, 

 and is pretty broad. The nacre is white and iridescent. The shell 

 is rather thick. (Phil.) 



China. 



H. Gruneri Phil. Zeitschr. f. Mai. 1848, p. 16; Abbild. u. 

 Beschreib. iii, t. ix, f. 1. 



Philippi's excellent description is translated above. Specimens 

 before me correspond with it. A variegated specimen is figured by 

 Lischke. (See pi. 6, fig. 31.) 



H. grayana Sowerby. PL 6, figs. 32, 33. 



Shell depressly ovate, effused posteriorly on the right side ; spire 

 nearly terminal ; spirally, flatly ribbed, intermediate ridges rather 



