﻿454 
  Lt. 
  -Colonel 
  H. 
  H. 
  Godwin-Austen 
  on 
  

  

  Port 
  Natal. 
  

  

  Specimen 
  in 
  B.M. 
  is 
  banded 
  and 
  looks 
  immature. 
  Great 
  

   similarity 
  to 
  cornea, 
  of 
  which 
  there 
  ai'C 
  four 
  specimens 
  from 
  

   M. 
  C. 
  and 
  one 
  from 
  some 
  other 
  source. 
  

  

  Vitrina 
  cornea, 
  Ffr. 
  

  

  Symbolse 
  ad 
  Ilistoriam 
  Heliceurum, 
  iii. 
  1846, 
  p. 
  81, 
  Dr. 
  Lud. 
  Pfeiffer. 
  

  

  Orij^inal 
  description 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  *' 
  T. 
  imperforata, 
  globoso 
  depressa, 
  tenuissima, 
  striatula, 
  pallide 
  

   cornea; 
  spira 
  brevis, 
  obtusa 
  ; 
  anfr. 
  4 
  vix 
  convexi, 
  ultiiuis 
  multo 
  

   latior, 
  subdepressus 
  ; 
  apertura 
  deobliqua, 
  ampla, 
  hmaris 
  ; 
  perist. 
  

   simplex, 
  rectum, 
  margine 
  dextro 
  autrorsum 
  arcuato, 
  columellari 
  

   declivi, 
  lovifcer 
  arcuato, 
  superne 
  brevissime 
  retlexo-appresao. 
  

  

  " 
  Diam. 
  maj. 
  16, 
  min, 
  13, 
  alt. 
  9 
  mm." 
  

  

  Port 
  Natal 
  (Menke) 
  . 
  /3. 
  linea 
  1 
  pallide 
  fusca 
  periplieria. 
  

  

  Kerkophorus 
  natalensis, 
  Kr. 
  

  

  'Die 
  Siidafrikanischen 
  MoUusken,' 
  bv 
  Professor 
  Dr. 
  Ferd. 
  Krauss 
  

  

  (1848). 
  

   Vitrina 
  natcdensis, 
  Krauss, 
  Tab. 
  iv. 
  f. 
  17. 
  

  

  Original 
  description 
  (p. 
  74) 
  : 
  — 
  

  

  " 
  V. 
  testa 
  imperforate, 
  globulosa, 
  solidiuscula, 
  subglabra, 
  nitida, 
  

   pcllucida, 
  cornt'o-fuscesceute, 
  linea 
  unica 
  rnfa 
  supra 
  periplieriam 
  

   cincta 
  ; 
  spira 
  brevi, 
  obtusiuscula 
  ; 
  anfiactibus 
  5 
  convexiusculis, 
  

   ultimo 
  ioflato 
  ; 
  apertura 
  perobliqua, 
  ampla, 
  rotundato-luuari 
  ; 
  

   peristomate 
  siaiplice, 
  margine 
  dextro 
  arcuato, 
  castaneo 
  ; 
  colu- 
  

   mella 
  obliqiia, 
  superne 
  reflexo-appressa, 
  alba. 
  

  

  "Diam. 
  major 
  8"4, 
  miu. 
  7, 
  alt. 
  4"6 
  liu." 
  

  

  Mon. 
  Hel. 
  Viv. 
  vol. 
  ii. 
  p. 
  505. 
  Habitat 
  ad 
  portum 
  

   Natal. 
  — 
  Diam. 
  major 
  19, 
  min. 
  16, 
  alt. 
  12 
  mm. 
  

  

  " 
  In 
  terra 
  natalensi.''' 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  Natural 
  History 
  Collection, 
  there 
  are 
  three 
  speci- 
  

   mens 
  which 
  were 
  purchased 
  from 
  Dr. 
  Krauss, 
  in 
  neither 
  is 
  

   any 
  rufous 
  band 
  to 
  be 
  seen 
  — 
  it 
  may 
  be 
  a 
  variable 
  character. 
  

   Next 
  the 
  protoconch 
  the 
  surface 
  of 
  the 
  shell 
  is 
  linely 
  

   decussate, 
  which 
  gradually 
  disappears 
  and 
  only 
  very 
  tine 
  

   spiral 
  lines 
  are 
  then 
  to 
  be 
  seen. 
  

  

  Kerkopho7'us 
  poeppiffi, 
  Menke. 
  

   See 
  Ann. 
  & 
  Mag. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  ser. 
  8, 
  vol. 
  ix. 
  p. 
  583, 
  pi. 
  xii. 
  (May 
  1912). 
  

  

  Locality. 
  Pinetown, 
  near 
  Durban, 
  Natal 
  (3379, 
  Burnup, 
  

   No. 
  15, 
  B.M.). 
  Connolly, 
  Annals 
  S. 
  A. 
  Mus. 
  1912, 
  p, 
  110. 
  

  

  