aueiculid^:. 47 



Marinula xanthostoma, H. and A. Adams in Proc. Z. S. 1854, 

 p. 35. n. 9 ; Gen. rec. Moll, ii. p. 247. 



Hub. Australia (Loive) ; Moretou Bay (II. and A. Adams). 



5. Marinula cymb^efobmis. 



Shell imperforate, ovate conic, solid, smooth, shining - , whitish- 

 fulvous ; spire convexly conoidal, slightly mucronate ; suture 

 impressed, narrowly bordered ; whorls five, moderately convex, 

 the last forming two-thirds of the total length, inflated above 

 and at base ; aperture rather oblique, obversely ear-shaped ; 

 parietal plaits two, the upper one strong, tongue-shaped, widely 

 entering, the other smaller, rather transverse, approximate to 

 the columellar plait, which is minute, dentiform ; peristome 

 simple ; right margin sharp, sinuated above ; columellar margin 

 callous, little dilated, slightly excavated. Length 10, breadth 

 6 mill. 



Auricula cymbseformis, Recluz, 3ISS. 



Marinula cymbaeformis, H. and A. Adams in Proc. Z. S. 1854, 

 p. 35. n. 6 ; Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p. 247. 



Pfr. Si/n. Auric, n. 63 ; Mon. Auric, p. 63. 

 Hub. Ticao, Philippine Islands. 



6. Mabintxa Fibmini. B.M. 



Shell imperforate, fusiformly ovate, solid, marked with rather 

 crowded spiral strire and dots, brownish-yellow, with paler 

 bands; spire conic, pointed; suture linear; whorls eight, scarcely 

 convex, the last as long as the spire, attenuated, but not com- 

 pressed at base ; aperture scarcely oblique, narrowly semiovate, 

 modified by three almost equal and equidistant dentiform plaits ; 

 parietal plaits two, almost parallel to each other; columellar 

 plait slightly twisted ; peristome straight, acute, with the 

 margins united by a thin deposit ; right margin thickened and 

 callous within; columellar margin reflexed, rather adnate. 

 Length 12, breadth 6 mill. 



Auricula Fimiini, Pai/raudeau, Cat. Moll, Corse, p. 105. pi. 15. 

 f. 10. ^ 



Philippi, Moll. Sicil, i. p. 142. 

 Desha>/es in Eneyel. Meth. ii. p. 89. n. 3 ; and Lam. Hist. 



viii.' p. 334. n. 16. 

 Potiez et Midland, Gal, Douai, i. p. 203. n. 7. 

 Kiister, Auric, p. 21. 69. t. A. f. 6, t. 2. f. 8-10. 

 Morelet in Journ. Conch. 1853, iv. p. 293. 

 Auricula ornata, Fer. Prodr. p. 103. n. 11 ? 



