SOWERBY : MARINE SHELLS OK SOUTH AFRICA. 9 



A narrow little white shell with a brown spiral line 

 about the middle of the whorls. From the form of the 

 mouth and columella it appears to be an Ac/is, though in 

 sculpture it is more like a Tiirbonilla. 

 Solarium perspectivum I.inn. — Sowb., 'Thes. Conch.,' vol. 

 iii., pi. 253, fig. 36. Natal. A small specimen. 



Solarium (Philippia) hybridum Linn. — 'Thes. Conch.,' 



vol. iii., pi. 253, fig. 42. .St. John's (Captain Turton). 



Solarium dorsuosum Hinds. — Sowb, 'Tlies. Conch.,' vol. 

 iii., pi. 254, figs. 73-74. Natal. St. John's (C'aptain Tur- 

 ton). This species is found in the Persian Gulf and in 

 Japan. 



Cerithium crassilabrum Krauss. — Sud., '.Afr. Moll.,'pl. vi., 

 fig. 10. Natal. 



Pyrazus palustris lirug. — Sowb., 'Thes. Conch.,' vol. ii., pi. 

 185, fig. 261. Natal. 



Turbo (Pachypoma) taylorianus Smith, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc.,' 1880, pi. 48, fig. 9, p. 483. Port Elizabeth. 



Turbo (Collonia) pillula Dunker. — Sowb., 'Thes. Conch.,' 

 vol. v., pi. 505, fig. 160. St. John's (Captain Turton). 



Gibbula fucata Gould, 'Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H.,' p. 8, j). 20. 

 Simon's Bay (Captain Turton). A prettily-marked rather 

 compressed variety was found by Langley Kitching, Esq., 

 at Green Point, near Cape Town. 



Gibbula incincta Sowerby, n. sp. 



Teita conica, ohtusiuscula, uiiibilicata, auiantio-fusca, ct I'iii- 

 descente, fasciis augustis a//>idis, inacuUs angiilatis fuscis 

 articidatis picta ; anfractus j aviirxo dec/ives, fere laves, 

 oblique sub-obsolete sulcati, lira iolii7idata margiimti ; basis 

 leviter convexa, oblique plicata, spiraliter subtitissime striata ; 

 umbilicus late el profunde excavatus, albus, carina obtusius- 

 cula marginatiis ; apertura oblique sub-quadrata ; columella 

 tenuis, obliqua, levissiine reflexa : peristoma simplex. 



Alt. 6, maj. lat. 6 millim. 



Hab. Port Eliuxbetli. 



