HI MA. 47 



M nonvins should probably be added A', corpulenta, Q. P. Ad. 



( mitio-ured ). from Panama. 



X. AiJvssiroi, A. A. Ad. PI. 15. tiir. 255. 



Dirty white. sli-litly bead-inaru'ined at the sutures. 



Length. ;>:> iueli. 



1*1 1' of Holml, Tluliftitincx, in clayey ground, tit 



sixty fathoms Ouming. 

 I do not know this species. 



X. PAUPERA, Gould. Pi. i:.. HO-S. 24H-250. 



Elevated, narrow, whorls rounded, closely costatc. and with 

 fine revol vino- lines ; aperture small. rounded. White or yellowish, 

 sometimes fasciated with brown, or marbled, or with the lower 

 of the body-whorl brown. Length. *35 '5 inch. 



. Jupnn, Auxti 'nil Pt>hjn<xi. 



Ditl'ers from the Xass;e ])recedin^ it in this "roup by its pupi- 

 forin shape and comparatively small body-whorl and mouth. 

 The spire is sometimes much cxsertcd. causing very deep 

 sutures. The variable painting-, etc.. lias caused a very larire 

 synonymy, namely- X. }>l<>h<><'iii<i , Gould ( nntiii'iired), N. tmcros- 

 . I'ease (I'm. ^47), .V. H niftim-lalf! and X. tt/n'irifla, Pease 

 X. balteata, Pease (lio-. -_>4S). .V. <h>mn>,*thw. (jould (im- 

 ). A', fi'tiffi-fiilim. l>unker ((!. i4D). is a stouter form, 

 whieli may possibly be identical with the next, species. X. 

 Samoensis, Duuker MS., and A', hitcnlti, K. A. Smith (tii>-. 250). 

 from Japan, described from a single dead specimen, are vei'y 

 ])robal)ly synonyms. 



X. Tiii.MJA. Souverbie. 1*1. ir>. li^'s. 251. 252. 



Yellowish brown, sometimes mottled with chestnut, and 

 spotted on the varix of the lip. 



New Caledonia, S. Australia. 



With this I unite A". romiHirfri. Anij-as, of which I am able to 

 irive a iiiiure from a sj)ecimen (liu 1 . 252) : it is the Australian rep- 

 resentative of the European A. inrrnsxutn. 



X. DKNTICULATA. \. Ad. PL 15. iii>'. 254. 



Yellowish, banded and blotched with chestnut. 

 Leu o-th. !> inch. 



' Mediterranean Sea. 



A rjire form, confounded by several authors with A T . <:luthrata. 

 Born ( -.-. limaffi. Auct. ). 



