AURICL-LID-S:. 107 



rounded and slightly attenuated at base ; aperture nearly per- 

 pendicular, narrow, acuminately ovate; parietal plait single, 

 small, compressed near the columella ; parietal plait minute, 

 nearly perpendicular, slightly twisted; peristome straight, blunt; 

 right margin almost rectilinear, callous within ; columellar 

 margin dilated, adnate. Length 12^, breadth 5 mill. 



Auricula elongata, Parreyss, 3ISS. 



Kust. Auric, p. 53. t. 8. f. 6-8. 



Jay, Catal 1850, p. 264. n. 6145. 



Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 146 ; Mon. Auric, p. 140. 

 Auricula Buddii, Parreyss, MSS. 



Ellobium elongatum, H. and A. Adams in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854. 

 p. 8. n. 10 ; Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p. 237. 



/3. More ventricose, rather fusiform, shining, fulvous ; spire 

 conic, with rather concave outlines. 



y. Larger, fusiformly ovate, chestnut-coloured above. Length 

 16, breadth 7 mill. 

 Hah. Sandwich and Feejee Islands ; the var. [i. and y. Bureos, 



Philippines. 



26. Auricula subttla. 



Shell imperforate, rather fusiform, solid, smooth, white, co- 

 vered with a fulvous yellowish periostraca ; spire conic, rather 

 pointed ; suture whitish, irregular ; whorls seven, flat, the last 

 a little longer than the spire, attenuated towards the base ; 

 aperture perpendicular, semiovate, white and shining within ; 

 parietal plait single, compressed and obliquely entering below 

 the middle ; columellar plaits two, smaller, twisted obliquely, 

 parallel to each other; peristome simple, straight, slightly 

 thickened within. Length 14, breadth 5 mill. 



Auricula subula, Quay and Gaim. Voy. Astrol. ii. p. 171. pi. 13. 

 f. 39, 40. 



Desk, in Lam. Hist. viii. p. 334 n. 18. 



Kust. Auric, p. 53. t. 8. f. 9, 10. 



Jay, Catal. 1850, p. 265. n. 6178. 



Adams and Peeve, Voy. Samarang, p. 55. pi. 14. f. 15. 



Pfr. Syn. Auric, n. 147 ; Mon. Auric, p. 141. 

 Pythia subula, Beck, Ind. p. 104. ri. 5. 



Ellobium subula, H. and A. Adams in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1854, p. 8. 

 n. 11 ; Gen. rec. Moll. ii. p. 238. pi. 82. f. 1. 



#. With three parallel, rather indistinct plaits. 

 Hub. Port Carteret, New Ireland ( Quay) ', Celebes (A. Ada/its): 

 the var. #. Isle of Negros, Philippines (II. Cuming). 



