36 PERSICULA. 



M. DACTYLUS, Lam. PI. 10, fig. 7. 



Pale fawn-color, without and in the interior. 



Length, 1-1 inches. 



Hong-Kong, China; Hinds. 



Is more cylindrical than M. blanda, and has five columellar 

 plaits. 



M. ELLIPTICA, Redfield. PI. 10, fig, 8. 



White, or very faintly yellowish banded. Length, 9'5 mill. 



Ins. Fanning, Polynesia. 



Described by Mr. Pease as M. elongata, a name preoccupied by 

 Bellardi for a fossil species. 



Section Pers'cula, Schumacher. 



Shell bulliforin, spire depressed or sunken ; usually banded 

 or spotted ; aperture long, the outer lip generally denticulated 

 within, with a posterior channel, inner lip with a callosity 

 posteriorly, four plaits anteriorly, with smaller ones behind 

 them, becoming obsolete. 



M. CORNEA, Lam. PL 10, fig. 9. 



Fulvous flesh-color, obsoletely darker banded, lip and callus 



lighter. Length, *8-l inch. 



West Africa. 

 . M. PERSICULA, Linn. PI. 10, fig. 10. 



Fulvous white, copiously spotted with orange-red or chestnut. 



Length, -75--9 inch. 



Senegambia, Cape Verd Is. 



M. CINGULATA, Dillw. PL 10, fig. 11. 



Fulvous white, with conspicuous zig-zag chestnut revolving- 

 lines. Length, *7-*9 inch. , 



W. Africa, Canaries, Cape Verd Is. 



In some specimens before me the revolving lines have broken 

 up into spots ; so that, distant as the two patterns of painting 

 normally appear, this and the preceding may prove to be 

 varieties of a single species. 



M. MULTILINE ATA, Sowb. PL 10, fig. 12. 



Yellowish, with close-set chestnut revolving lines. 



Length, *5 inch. 



Belize, Honduras, 



