70 SOLARIID, 
S. lyra, Sowerby, Thes. Conch., No. 4, Sp. 27 Reeves Conch. Ic. f. 
23; S. “ineolata, C.M.M., not of Keiner. Shell accuminate, imperforate 
or sub-perforate ; whorls five to seven, rounded ; varices numerous, about 
twenty. in the body whorl, thin ; mouth oval; white, with a pale brown 
band on the anterior part of the body whorl. 
Length, °45; breadth, :2; angle of spire, 32°. 
Auckland. Philippine Islands. 
FAMILY—SOLARIIDA. 
Tentacles folded, with the suture below; eyes sessile on the surface 
of their bases ; mantle included ; gill cavity divided by a longitudinal 
fold ; foot moderate, formed for walking; operculum horny, spiral, 
ovate or circular. Shell trochiform ; axis widely perforated ; aperture 
not pearly within ; the tongue is unarmed (Gray.) 
Genus, PHILIPPIA—Gray. 
Operculum flat, orbicular, many whorled. Shell discoidal, sub-conic, 
smooth ; aperture sub-quadrate, not pearly within ; umbilicus wide ; the 
margin crenulated. 
P. lutea, Zamark, Anim. Sans. Vert., ix., ~. 100; Reeve, Conch. 
Ic. (Solarium,) f. 14; Adams, Gen. Moll., p. 25, 7- 8; Solarium luteum, 
Chenu, f. 1355. Shell rather obtusely conoid, yellow ; whorls slopingly 
convex, smooth, decussately malleated, encircled at the periphery, with 
two white -red-beaded keels; umbilicus small, but little crenated 
(Reeve. ) 
Mediterranean. Australia. Hauraki Gulf. (Mr. C. Mathews.) 
According to M. Philippi, the animal resembles Z7ochws, and possibly 
the genus should be united to AZonz/ea. 
FAMILY—JANTHINID. 
Lateral teeth numerous, uniform, simple, slender ; head proboscidi- 
form ; tentacles short and obtuse, with pointed eye pedicels at their 
base; eyes none; gills plumose, partially exserted; foot small, flat, 
rudimentary, furnished with a vescicular appendage on the hinder part ; 
sexes separate (?) ; eggs cohering into a raft; no operculum. Shell thin, 
translucent, spiral, more or less turbinate, with a sinistral nucleus 
(Pelagic. ) 
; Genus, JANTHINA—Bolten. 
Shell sub-globose, violet, spiral; spire short ; whorls slightly angula- 
ted; aperture large, quadrangular ; inner lip reflexed ; columella tortu- 
ous ; outer lip thin, notched or sinuated near the middle. 
The swimming-raft is regarded by some naturalists as a modified 
operculum. ‘The ovarian capsules are fixed to its under surface. * 
* Por a description of the-animal, see A. Adams in the Ann. Nat. Hist., 3rd 
Series, x., p. 417, and Dr. Lacaze Duthiers, in the same periodical, 3rd Series, 
XVii., p. 278. 
