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addition se four, has about nine other equally stout lira?, exclu- 



sive of four or five finer ones upon the extremity : all are prettily 

 sealed. The aperture is ovate, contracted anteriorly into a short 

 canal, which is much inclined to the left. The columella is smooth, 

 covered with a thin callus, and the outer lip is armed within with 

 about six coarsish lira-. I. ngth 18 millim., width S| millim. ; aper- 

 ture and canal 9 millim. long. 3 millim. wide. 

 Hab. Port Curtis. 7 fms. 



22. Urosalpiax contracta. 



Buccinurn contractum. St . 1 _ . ■"•;. 



ccinuni funiculatu:^. Reeve, I.e. fig. 61. 

 Yar. = T "rosalpinx innotabilis. Smith, Pr . Z . 8oc. L879, pi. xx. 

 fig. 32. 



Hab. Prince of Wales Channel. -7 :. . ; Philip- 



pine Islands B ; Uornbay | W. T. ; Japan for U. m- 



notabilis. 



The operculum of this species resembles that of 1' . The 



- > rather variable in form., the number of costte, in colour, and 

 the length of the basal or anterior canal. 



The typical form is rather longer, and has a more prolonged canal 

 than the variety from Japan, has more brown colouring, and an 

 additional longitudinal rib. All have from - _ht elongate 



denticles or lira?, within the labrum, which is thickened within and 

 without, and acute and crenulated along the margin. 



23. Tritoni&ea enrtisiana. | Plate V. fig. E.) 



5 11 ovate-fusiform, yellow, banded with white round the middle 

 of the last whorl, with the ribs subaltern ately white also. Volutions 

 about 8, obliquely coarsely costate, and spirally closely ridged, a 

 trifle convex. I nine on a whorl, attenuated and produced 



almost to the base of the last. Spiral line prominent on the 

 four in number on the upper whorls, and about - on the 



A ;-rture small, ovate, narrowed anteriorly, bluish wh: Lip 



thickened, furnished with about nine fine line reaching to the mar- 

 gin, which is dotted wi k brown between them. Columella 

 covered with a thin callosity, upon which rest eight or nine trans- 

 verse tubercles, with brown dots between them. Length 14 millim.. 

 diam. 6| millim. ; aperture with canal 7 millim. long. 



Hob. Port Curtis, 1-11 fms. 



sented in the present collection by a single 

 specimen ; and it is remarkable on account of the peculiaritv of its 

 colour, its small size, and comparative solidity. 



24. Columbella fnlguraus, Lamarck. 



Hah. West Island, Prince of Wales Channel, Torres Straits (Cop- 

 pinger). 



