88 PYTHIA $&. 3. 
compressus ; apertura subobliqua, ovalis, fulvo-aenea; dentes 
parietales 2, superior late triangularis, bicruris, alter magnus, 
compressus, extus breviter duplicatus; plica columellaris qua- 
drata, fere verticaliter adscendens; perist. fulvidum, reflexum, 
marginibus callo tenui junctis, dextro superne angusto, sinuato, 
deorsum dilatato, intus dentibus 5 (summis 2 et quarto minu- 
tis, tertio et quinto crassis, rotundatis) armato, columellari 
subincrassato, patente. — Long. 38, diam. maj. 19, min. 15 
mill Ap. c. perist. oblique 20 mill. longa. (Mus. Cuming.) 
Scarabus chalcostomus 4. Adams in. Proc, Zool. Soc. 1850, p. 152 *). 
Conf. Ann. and Mag. 2d. ser. VIII. p. 70. 
Pythia chalvostoma Dfr. Syn. Auric. n, 85. 
— -— H. et. A4. .4dams Gen. rec. Moll. II. p. 240. 
Habitat in insulis Salomonis (D'Orville). 
102 17. E*. ovata Pfr. 
T. profunde rimata vel aperte umbilicata, compresse ovato- 
acuminata, solidula, striatula, pallida, livido-nebulosa et macu- 
lis castaneis. marmorata; spira convexiusculo-conica, acuta; 
varices albi, macula aequilata nigro-castanea, suturam non 
attüingente, marginati; anfr. 10 planiusculi, antice descendentes, 
ad suturam areuato-plicaü, ultimus spira paulo longior, basi 
subcompressus; apertura verticalis, intus albida; dentes parie- 
tales 2, superior triangularis, bicruris, alter validus, simplex, 
oblique descendens; pliea columellaris compressa, obliqua; 
perist. palhde lividum, marginibus callo tenui, nitido junctis, 
dextro superne subsimplice, tum incrassato, reflexo, intus callo 
albo, inaequaliter 5-dentato munito, columellari perdilatato, 
patente. — Long. 31, diam. max. 26, min. 23!/, mill. Ap. c. 
perist. 17!/ mill. longa, 11!/, lata. (Mus. Cuming. et Coll. 
Nr. 50.) 
Pylhia ovata. Pfr. in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 299. 
zx —  H. et A. Adams Gen. rec. Moll, II. p. 240, 
Habitat in insula. Ceylon. 

*) S. testa ovato-pyramidali, spira elevata, acuta, longitudinaliter sub- 
striata, pallide lutea, rufo-fusca variegata; apertura ovali, aenea; labio antice 
subrecto; labro semicirculari; umbilico patulo. — In general appearance 
this species resembles S. pyramidatus, but it is more oval, larger, lighter, 
with the middle tooth on the inner lip double, and the lower tooth broad 
and ascending; two of the teeth in the outer lip are vory large and tuber- 
cular. (A. Adams l. c.) 
