JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGV. 



MARINE SHELLS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 

 By G. B. SOWEKHV, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



(Read before the Concliological Society, November 3rd, 1893). 



Thk following species have been brought to my notice 

 since the publication of my work with the above title in 1892. 



The references are not always to original descriptions, liut 

 to figures in well-known works. 

 Murex ramosus Linn. — Sow., 'Tlies. Conch.,' vol. iv., pi. 



3S7, fig. 69. Natal. 

 Tritonidea subrubiginosa. — Smith, 'Proc. Zool. Soc.,' 



1879, p. 200, pi. 20, fig. 40. Natal (Burnuj)). 

 Pleurotoma cingulifera Lamk. — Reeve, 'Conch. Icon.,' 



vol. i., PU'iirotoiiia, fig. r. A young shell from Kny.^na. 

 Mangilia cerea (?) Carpenter. — A small shell bearing a very 



close resemblance to this sijecies has been submitted to me 



by Langley Kitching, l',si[ , frtjm near Cape Town. 

 Triton gemmatus. — Reeve, 'Conch, Icon.,' vol. ii., Triloii, 



pi. 15, fig. 60. Natal. 

 Triton tuberosus Lamk. — Reeve, 'Conch. Icon.,' vol. ii., 



Triton, pi. I, fig. 1. Natal. 

 Triton gallinago, —Reeve, 'Conch. Icon.,' vol. ii., Triton, 



1)1. 2, fig. 3. Natal. 

 Triton monilifer. — .\dams & Reeve, 'Voyage, Samaraiii:,' 



pi. 10, fig. 18. Natal. 

 Triton (Persona) anus Lamk.— Reeve, 'Conch. Icon.,' vol. 



ii., Triton, pi. 12, fig. 44. Natal. 

 Nassa algida. — Reeve, 'Conch. Icon.,' vol. viii., Nmsa, pi. 



22, fig. [43. Natal. 

 Bullia pustulosa Sowerby, n. sp. 



Testa acuminata, soUdiiisciiIa, luteo-all>ida : spira aaitt' tiniila, 



ad apicem obtnsiiisaila ; anfractm 6 prinii {2) /tcvcs, sf(jncntes 



grani/lati, spiraliter siiloati, lon^^ifudinaliter piicati, sulura 



