5S COLLECTIONS PROM MELANESIA. 



50. Natica (Mamma) ctuningiana. 



Natica cumingiana, Recluz, Reeve, Conch. Icon. fig?. 13 a, h ; Philippi, 



( 'on.-Cab. p. 47, pi. 7. fig. 5. 

 Var.=Natica powisiana, Recluz, Reeve, I. c. figs. 22 a, b ; Philippi, l c. 



p. 46, pi. 7. fig. 4. 

 Var.=Natica draparnaudi, Recluz, Journ. de Conch, vol. ii. pi. 5. fig. 



11 ; Reeve, l. c. figs. 44 a. />. 



Hub. Port Molle, Queensland. 



The only specimen from this locality is half-grown, white, with a 

 hroad and gradually enlarging band of a rich brown colour round 

 the body-whorl, with another narrower yellowish one beneath the 

 suture, and a third, also of a yellowish tint, bordering the carina 

 circumscribing the umbilicus ; this is less open than in the adult 

 shell figured by Reeve 



51. Eulima martinii, var. 

 A. Adams, Thes. Conch, pi. 109. fig. 5; Sowerby, Conch. Icon. fig. 6. 



Shell elongate-pyramidal, slightly recurved and laterally flexuous 

 towards the apex, white, rather transparent behind the varices 

 (perhaps due to the youth of the specimen), which are in a single 

 oblique series from the labrum upwards. AVhorls very slightly 

 convex, eleven remaining in the single shell under examination, 

 which may not be full-grown ; apical ones broken off. Outlines of 

 the spire for the most part rectilinear, but a little contracted near 

 the summit, thus giving the shell a somewhat club-shaped appear- 

 ance. Last whorl broad, indistinctly obtusely angled at the peri- 

 phery. Aperture pyriform, oblique. Outer lip prominent near the 

 middle, feebly sinuated above. Columella arcuate, thickened with 

 a reilexed callosity which joins the upper termination of the labrum. 

 Length 19 millim., diatn. 7 : aperture bh long, 3g wide. 



Hah. "Warrior Reef, Torres Straits, on a bottom of pearl-shells 

 (Avicula margaritifera) (Coppinyer); China Sea (Adams) ; Darnley 

 Island, Torres Straits (Brazier). 



This is as broad a shell as E. martinii of A. Adams, and is solely 

 distinguished by the greater height of the whorls. Having but 

 one specimen (and that probably not adult) to base an opinion 

 upon, it would be unwise to hold it distinct on account of this 

 single difference. Sowerby gives the locality of this species " St. 

 Helena," which is unsupported by any authority and almost cer- 

 tainly a mistake. 



52. Strombus campbelli. 



Gray, Griffith's An. King., Moll. pi. 25. fig. G; Sowerby, Thes. 

 Conch, pi. 0. figs. 22,23; Reeve, Conch. Icon. fig. 4.")'; Chenu, 

 Manuel, fig. ItiOO. 



Hah. Port Denison (4 fins.), Port Molle, and Friday Island, 



