424 Mr. E. A. Smith on Gasteropoda 
(in anfr. ultimo basi fere continuis) instructi, sulcis angustis 
circiter 6 (in ultimo ad 15) supra costas continuis insculpti, 
sutura undulata discreti; apertura parva, rotunde ovata; labrum 
incrassatum, medio basique fusco maculatum, intus liratum ; cana- 
lis angustus, brevis, leviter recurvus ; columella arcuata, levis, 
callo tenui induta. 
Long. 84 mill., diam. 44. 
Hab. Cape Sima, 18 fathoms, bottom sand and broken 
shells. 
Above the spiral interrupted brown line a white one adja- 
cent to it is discernible; and on the body-whorl somewhat 
below the middle there are two other, very pale brownish lines 
interrupted by the ribs, which are a little broader than the 
interspaces. 
36. Purpura lapillus, Linn.; Conch. Icon. ii. f. 47, a, 6. 
Hab. Japan. 
The Japanese forms of this Protean shell are as varied as 
those on European shores. In some specimens the imbrica- 
tions are prominent, as in Reeve’s figure 47 6, but much 
more numerous, in some cases groups “of six or ‘eight being 
quite contiguous. In other examples the imbrications are 
nearly obsolete. 
37. Purpura alveolata, Rve. Conch. Icon. in. f. 60. 
Hab. Ooshima. . 
Reeve gives “ Panama, Cuming,” as the locality of this 
species. Tt does not appear in Mr. A. Adams’s list of 
Japanese Purpurine, given in the ‘ Annals,’ 1870, vol. v. 
p- 422; and therefore probably it has not been recorded from 
so northern a locality. There are in the Museum collection 
other specimens from Formosa and Swan River. 
38. Sistrum tuberculatum, Blainv. ; Conch. Icon. iti. Rieinula, 
f. 11; Kiener, Coq. Viv. Purpura, pl. 5. f. 10, 10 a. 
Hab. Toba and Ooshima, on the shore. 
39. Buccinum Jeffreysii, sp. nov. 
Testa ovato-fusiformis, alba, carinis rufo punctatis ornata, epider- 
mide sordide olivaceo-alba longitudinaliter lamellosa amicta ; 
antractus 64, primi duo leves, rufescentes, globulares, ceeterl con- 
vexi, liris vel carinis tenuibus 6-7 (in anfr. ultimo circa 20-24), 
una leviter undulata cirea medium quam ceteris majore,-cincti, 
