8 ■ . TIARID.E. 



16. Septaria livesayi {Duhni). 



Septaria livesayi (Dolirn), P. Z. S. 1858, p. 135 (as Navicella) ; 

 H. & T., C. I. pi. 137, figs. 8, 9. 



Original description : — Testa oblongo-ovata, tennis, parum 

 pellucida, fusco-viridis, ad apicem rubeseens, niaculis triangn- 

 laribus luteis ornata ; apex ad dextram spectaus, prominulus ; 

 apertura alba. 



Alt. 6, diam. raaj. 35, diam. miu. 15 mm. 



Aperture: diam. 18 mm. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



17. Septaria squamata (Dohm). 



iSeptaria squamata (Dohm), P. Z. S. 1858, p. 135; H. & T., C. I. 

 pi. 157, figs. 1, 4 (as Navicella). 



Original description : — Testa ovata, tenuis, pellucida, fusco- 

 viridis, ad apicem rubeseens, maciilis luteis squama^formibus, striis 

 fulguratis et maculis nigrescentibus picta ; apex ad sinistram 

 spectans, margiiialis ; apertura alba. 



Alt. o'5, diam. maj. 18, diam. niin. 12-5 mm. 



Aperture : diam. 15 mm. 



llah. Ceylon. 



Order P E CT I N I BRAN C H lATA. 



Suborder TJ^NIOGLOSSJ. 



Family TIARID^ [z=Melcmudce']. 



Subfamily TIARINvE. 



Shell ovately or subulately fusiform, smooth, striate costulate 

 or spinously nodulate. 



Distribution. S.E.Europe; S. & E. Asia; N. Australia ; Africa; 

 America ; Tropical Islands of Indian and Pacific Oceans. 



Genus FAUNUS. 



Faunns, de Montfort, Conch. Syst. 1810. 

 Pirena, Lamarck, 1822. 

 Melunumona, Eowditch. 



'Sx'B'B, Strombas ater, Linn.TUs : Moluccas; New Guinea; New- 

 Ireland ; Java ; Philippines ; Timor, Burn, Amboyna ; Ceylon. 



Hangs. The above islands and also Ne'.r Caledonia; Penang ; 

 China. 



