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‘9. DescripTions or THREE Spectres oF MARINE SHELLS FROM 
THE Paciric Ocean. By W. Harrer PEAsE. 
1. NEpPTUNEA FUSCO-LINEATA. 
Shell fusiformly turreted, rather thin, shortly twisted at the base ; 
epidermis thin, light, corneous ; spire rather slender. Whorls nine, 
convexly angulated, ribbed longitudinally, and crossed by numerous 
transverse raised lines; ribs close, swollen, and becoming gradually 
obsolete on the back of the body-whorl; sutures well impressed ; 
body-whorl convexly depressed above ; canal short, slightly twisted 
to the left, and furnished with a slight umbilical fissure ; labrum 
thin, simple ; aperture oblong-oval, half the length of the shell ; 
columella arched, smooth, glossy, slightly callous above. Colour 
whitish fawn, sparingly streaked longitudinally with brown, and 
ornamented with subequidistant revolving dark-brown lines. 
Hab. Corea Sea. Dredged from sandy bottom, in 70 fathoms 
water. 
2. TurcICA COREENSIS. 
Shell conoidal, rather thin, subdiaphanous, of a light greyish fawn- 
colour, cinereous at the base, and sparingly marked with oblique 
stripes and small spots of a deep brown. Whorls flattened ; body- 
whorl large, rounded at its periphery, all ornamented with transverse 
rows of close, irregular-sized papille or granules, which become 
almost obsolete near the base. Apex acute ; suture canaliculated ; 
base convex, imperforate; outer lip sharp. Aperture large, breadth 
and height equal, and pearly within. Columella oblique, with two 
obtuse tubercles on its edge. 
Hab. Corea Sea. Dredged in company with the preceding species. 
This species is closely allied to T. monilifera (A. Adams). It 
differs in the aperture being smooth within, and the whorls flat. 
The figure of 7’. monilifera also represents the sutural canal as being 
continued round the body-whorl. In the present species it terminates 
with the suture. The columella is also quite different, descending 
obliquely to the right. 
There was dredged with the two preceding species a single right 
valve of a Nucula, which may possibly prove to be the WN. divari- 
cata, Hinds. It differs, however, from Mr. Hinds’s description in 
being of an oval form, and in having the anterior teeth nine in num- 
ber, posterior twenty-one. The epidermis is brown. Length 14, 
height 10 lines. Should this prove to be distinct from N. divaricata, 
we would propose for it the specific name of “ seulpta.” 
3. CypR2A COMPTA., 
Shell oblongo-ovate, rather solid ; colour pale fawn-yellow, orna- 
mented with somewhat remote, round, white spots of irregular size, 
and a flexuous dorsal line of same colour ; sides and base white, the 
former conspicuously dotted with dark brown ; extremities produced, 
the posterior curving to the left ; umbilical region concave ; right 
side margined ; aperture narrow, flexuose ; teeth small, even, twenty- 
