On new Marine Gastropoda. 557 



more pronounced and acute ; tegmina with the venation dark 

 ocliraceous, that belon<:^ing to the short apical cells black, on 

 hasal half some prominent bnt irregular)}' shaped and sized 

 black spots, and near centre a curved ocliraceous discal fascia ; 

 body beneath testaceous, legs testaceous. 

 Long., incl. tegni., 4i mm. 



Fam. CercopidaB. 

 Clovia tnsignis, sp. n. 



Vertex ocliraceous, narrow lateral margins (somewhat dis- 

 continuous) black ; pronotuin black, with a broad central 

 longitudinal fascia, not reaching anterior margin, oclira- 

 ceous; scutellum pale ocliraceous; tegmina black, apical 

 areas of clavus (but not the claval suture), and broad, sinuate 

 lateral margins, abruptly widening posteriorly, more or less 

 ocliraceous ; body beneath and legs ocliraceous ; head as 

 broad as prouotum, about as long as breadth between eyes ; 

 narrowed and subacutely rounded anteriorly ; pronotum 

 distinctly transversely striate, strongly excavate before base 

 of scutellum ; scutellum longer than broad, obscurely trans- 

 versely striate; tegmina finely punctate; face somewhat 

 convex, but distinctly flattened on disk ; clypeus not quite 

 reaching the apices of the anterior coxse ; apex of rostrum 

 black ; posterior tibiai bispinose ; apices of tarsi black. 



Long. 7 mm. 



LXVII. — Descriptions of Eight new Marine Gastropoda, 

 mostly from Japan. By G. B. Sowerby, F.L.S. 



[Plate IX.] 



Cominella fortilirata, sp. n. (Fig. 1.) 



Testa elongato-fusiformis, imperforata, solidiuscula, sordide albida, 

 epidermide fuses tenuiter iuduta ; spira elongata, elata, pyranii- 

 dalis ; anfractus 6, convexi, spiraliter quinque lirati ; liris elevatis, 

 crassis, leviter complanatis ; interstitiis excavatis, oblique filo- 

 Btriatis ; anfractus ultimus spiram circiter sequans ; liris 15, 

 munitus, antice leviter concavus ; apertura subpyriformis, intus 

 sulcata, albida ; columella rectiuscula, albida, laavis. 



Long. 55, maj. diam. 33 mm. 



Hah. Urup, Kuril Island.?. 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. xi. 3d 



