48 AMERICAN MARINE CONCHOLOGY. 
Prof. Adams’ name being preoccupied by Lamarck, Mr. Per- 
kins has changed it to brunnea, as above. 
3. P. cerina, Kurtz and Stimpson. Fig. 79. 
Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., iv. 115. 1851. : 
Shell fusiformly turreted, waxy or cinereous, with about ten 
longitudinal elevated plicee, and numerous transverse strize ; whorls 
seven, flattened; aperture oblong, about half equal to the spire; 
lip simple. 
Length 7.5, diam. 2.25 mill. 
Massachusetts ; Connecticut ; North and South Carolina. 
Genus DRILLIA, Gray. 
Jardine’s Ann. Nat. Hist., i. 28. 1838. 
1. D. ELozANTHA, Ravenel. 
Proc. Philad. Acad., 48. 1861. 
Shell robust, conic cylindrical, with ten whorls, which are bi- 
earinate by being deeply grooved immediately above the suture 
and again in the upper half of the whorl. The ridge left between 
these grooves is ornamented by ten strong, yellow, smooth, shining 
tubercles; the upper edge of the whorl is again bevelled, forming 
the second carina, which is not at all nodulous. Below the nodu- 
lous carina on the body-whorl there are obsolete ribs, crossed by 
four nodulous ridges, and below these there are eight others, some 
of which are obscurely nodulous; on all parts of the shell not 
occupied by the tubercles or carina there are numerous fine equi- 
distant strize, requiring the glass to bring them to view. Aper- 
ture small, outer line made oblique by the deep sinus of the thick 
outer lip just below the suture; pillar nearly straight, with a 
strong callus. Color deep brown, with a lighter colored band 
near the extremity of the canal; beyond that, to the extremity is 
again almost black. Allied to P. ornata, Orb. 
Three specimens obtained from stomachs of fish. (Ravenel.) 
Charleston, 8. C. 
Genus BELA, Leach. 
Gray, Ann. xx. 1847. 
1.°B. rurricuta, Montagu. Fig. 80. 
(Murex) Test. Brit. 262, t. 9, f. 1. 1803. 
B. nobilis et scalaris, Moller. 
B. Americana, Packard. 
B. angulata, Reeve. 
B. exarata, Miller (Morch.) 
