454 Lt. -Colonel H. H. God win- Austen on 



Port Natal. 



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

 similarity to cornea, of which there are four specimens from 

 M. C, and one from some other source. 



Vitrina cornea, Pfr. 

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

 Original description : — 



" T. imperforata, globoso depressa, tenuissima, striatiila, pallide 

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

 latior, siibdepressus ; apertura deobliqua, ampla, liinaris ; peiist, 

 simplex, rectum, margiue dextro aiitrorsum arcuato, cohnuellari 

 declivi, leviter arcuato, superue brevissime reliexo-appresso. 



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



Port Natal {Menke). /3. linea 1 pallide fusca peripheria. 



Kerkophorus natalensis, Kr. 



'Die Siidafrikaniscben Mollusken,' bv Professor Dr. Ferd. Krauas 



(1848). 

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



Original description (p. 74) : — 



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

 pollucida, cornco-fuscescente, Unea iinica riifa supra periplierium 

 cincta ; spira brevi, obtusiuscula ; anfractibus 5 convexiusculis, 

 ultimo iuflato ; apertura pero))li(]ua, ampla, rotundato-luuari ; 

 peristomate simplice, margine dextro arcuato, castaneo ; colu- 

 mella obli(iua, superne reflexo-apprcssa, alba. 



"Diam. major 8*4, miu. 7, alt. 4"6 lin." 



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 arc tlirce speci- 

 mens Mhich were purchased from l)r. Krau.>-s, in neither is 

 any rufous band to Ijc seen — it may be a varial)le cliaracler. 

 Next the protoconch the surface of tlie shell is finely 

 decussate, which gradually disappears and only very tine 

 spiral lines are then to be seen. 



Kerkophorus poeppigi, Mcnke. 

 See Ann. Sz. Mng. Nat. Hist, ser, 8, vol. ix. p. 683, pi. xii, (May 1912). 



Locality. Pinetown, near Durban, Natal (3379, Bui-nup, 

 No. 15, B.M.). Connolly, Annals S. A. Mus. 11)12, p. 110. 



