MAZATLAN ITNIVALVES 505 



carinated. The shape Qf this is like Anachis, &c. ; but in all 

 the ColumbeUoid shells examined, the nucleus is regular. 

 Jffa&.— Mazatlan ; 1 young sp. off Spondylus ; L'pool Col. 



Genus COMINELLA, Gray. 



S. Sf A. Ad. Gen. vol. i. p. 110. Shell Buccinoid. Operculum 

 Muricoid. 



644. PCoMiNELLA , sp. ind. 



Tablet 2417 contains a small smooth yellow shell, of regular 

 form. The first four whirls have a different shade of colour 

 and may be nuclear. 

 ^a5.— Mazatlan ; 1 young sp. off Spondylus ; L'pool Col. 



Genus AJSTACHIS, mSfA.Ad. 



Gen. vol. i. p. 184 : (as Subgenus of Columbella.) 



Testa Columhellce similis, spird elevatd, anfractihus lirafis ; 

 aperturd sichquadratd ; labro intus dentato, lahio crenato. 

 Opereulo elongato, unguiformi, nucleo terminali. 



Columbella, pars, auct. 



These shells, which form a very natural group of the old 

 genus Columbella, are distingmshed essentially by the opercu- 

 lum, which has closer analogies with Pisania. The operculum 

 of ColimibeUa fulgurans, which is a smooth species with a 

 twisted mouth, is figured by Messrs. Adams, pi. 19, f. Ib.c, 

 as resembling that of Anachis. The opercula of ColumbeUoid 

 sheEs have hitherto received so little attention that Dr. Gould 

 in his great work on the U. S. Expl. Exp. Shells, p. 270, states 

 that they have none. 



645. Anachis scalaeina. Sow. 



Columbella scalarina, Soto, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. IIG : — 



Thes. Conch, p. 130, no. 55, pi. 39, f. llS.—JDesh. in Lam. 



An. s. Vert. vol. x. p. 288, no. 40.— Chenu Conch. III. pi. 25, 



f. 34, (male.) 

 (Columbella) Anachis scalarina, S. Sf A. Ad. Gen. i. 184. 



Two young shells and one adult specimen are referred to 

 this species by Mr. Cuming. Being in perfect condition, the 

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