GLYPHIS. 227 



Color slate-blue with numerous (about 20) narrow blackish-green 

 rays some of them often split into lines. Hole twice a? long as wide, 

 indistinctly tripartite, about one-eighth to one-ninth the length of 

 the shell, and situated in front of the middle. Interior bluish, the 

 hole-callus bounded by a black line, and very distinctly truncated 

 behind. Edge a little crenulated. Length 17, width 1U, alt. 7 

 mill. 



New Guinea. 



F. tegula Rve. Conch. Icon., f. 122, 1850.— Sowb., Thes., p. 198, 

 f. 57, 58. 



A slate-colored species, black-rayed and having the concentric 

 sculpture nearly obsolete. 



Species of doubtful position. 



G. ? monilifera Hutton. Unfigured. 



Ovate, white, radiated with moniliform ribs and obscurely can- 

 cellated ; border smooth or crenulated. Height *2, length "6, 

 breadth -45 inch. (H.) 



Stewart's Id., 15 fms. 



Lucapina monilifera Hutton, Cat. Mar. Moll. New Zealand, 

 1873, p. 42; Journ. de Conchyl. 1878, p. 35; Manual of N. Z. 

 Moll. p. 106, 1880. 



May be a Megatebennus, but the description is not sufficiently de- 

 tailed to enable one to classify it. 



G. ? scrobiculata Nevill. PI. 41, fig. 38. 



Shell small, depressed, almost regularly oval, the sides a little 

 narrowed in the middle, rounded in front and behind ; white, with 

 scarcely distinct, brownish, radiating bands. Surface all over min- 

 utely pitted and ornamented with subobsolete radiating striae ; fora- 

 men wide-oval, surrounded by an elevated margin ; margin of the 

 aperture thin, minutely crenulated. Inside white. Length 92, 

 breadth of, alt. 2* mill. (Nev.) 



S. province Ceylon. 



Fissurella (?) scrobiculata Nevill, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 

 xxxviii, p. 163, t. 17, f. 15. 



The sculpture of this interesting shell is very peculiar, the surface 

 being covered with rough diamond-shaped scrobiculations, perhaps 



