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Whorls shaped like Brot, pi. 45, fig 13, but spire more pro- 

 duced ; a single specimen distinctly banded, like Bourg. Mai. 

 Alg., pi. XVI, fig. 20. 



12 Rv. Litany; coll. Dr. J. Anderson [17^, 8f]. 



A shorter, more convex form, resembling Brot, pi. 45, fig. 1 

 ["M. buccinoidea"], but rather smaller ; a single specimen is 

 distinctly banded, exactly like Rossmassler, fig. 1889 [" M. 

 wagneri, Parr."]. 



2 Rhodes ; ex c. R. Hungerford, Esq. 

 50 Damascus; coll. Dr. J. Anderson. 



Close to Rossmassler, fig. 1885, and Brot, pi. 45, fig. 13. 



4- Damascus ; coll. Dr. J. Anderson [long. 24, diam. 10 mil. ; sub- 

 decollate]. 



Abnormal specimens with the spire cylindrically produced, 

 much as in M. Brot's, pi. 45, fig. 7 [" Rhodes "]. 



30 Damascus ; coll. Dr. J. Anderson [16^, 10]. 



Resembles Brot, pi. 45, figs. 3, 5 and 14 ; has a shorter spire 

 than the preceding. 



16 Jordan and Ain Mellaha; coll. Dr. J. Anderson [20, 11^]. 



Resemble M. Brot's pi. 45, fig. 2, his M. hucnnoidea, Fer., a 

 form distinguished by the more-evenly rounded whorls. 



20 Am-es-Sultan [Elisha's Spring], Jericho; coll. Dr. J. Anderson. 



Resembles Rossmassler, fig. 18S8, and Brot, pi. 45, fig. 9, &c. 



lu Ain Mellaha, Galillee ; coll. Dr. J. Anderson. 

 7 Jericho; ex c. H. F. Blanford, Esq. 



Typical specimens of the so-called ill. buccinoidea. 



30 Sahestan, W. of Shiraz ; coll. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



Undistinguishable from the preceding. 



1 Dead Sea; ex c. H. P. Blanford, Esq. [labelled " M. eremita. 

 Trist."] 



Does not seem to me to agi-ee with Tristram's description. 



