MANGILTA. 257 



whorls 7 to 8, fattened; outer lip slightly varicose, sinus wide 

 and deep ; yellowish brown, lip sometimes black-edged. 



Length, 12 mill. 



Torres Straits, Australia. 



Figured from one of several specimens obligingly commu- 

 nicated by Mr. Brazier. 



M. CITHARELLA, Lam. PI. 24, figs. 13, 14. 



Light yellowish brown, or yellowish white, banded narrowly 

 and numerously with chestnut. Length, 15-20 mill. 



Solomon's Is., Philippines. 



This is M. striata, Schum. M. lyra, Reeve (fig. 14), is a 

 variety with stronger shoulder-angle and ribs. Mr. E. A. Smith 

 considers M. funiculata, Reeve, a variety also ; but that species 

 has a toothed labrum, and therefore belongs to the section 

 Cythara, as very artificially separated from Mangilia ; it may be 

 a synonym, nevertheless. 



M. PYGM^EA, Bunker. PL 32, fig. 50. 



Longitudinally plicate, plicae evanescent towards the base of 

 the body-whorl ; light brown. Length, 6 mill. 



Japan. 

 M. VARICULOSA, Sowb. PI. 16, fig. 60. 



Whorls narrowly shouldered ; longitudinal ribs granose, 

 crossed by raised striae ; dark chocolate-brown. 

 Length, 13'5 mill. 



Bay of Montija, W. Coast Centr. America. 



M. QUISQUALIS, Hinds. PL 16, fig. 63. 



White, obtusely angulated, smooth above the angle, which is 

 nodose by the termination of short longitudinal ribs. 



Length, 11 mill. 



W. Coast Centr. America. 

 M. LUCIDA, Nevill. PL 12, fig. 19. 



White, slightly and irregularly marbled with pale brown, 

 between the ribs and especially behind the outer lip. 



Length, 8 mill. 



Persian Gulf; Bay of Bengal. 



Allied in general to M. quisqualis, Hinds, but is smaller, with 

 transverse striae at the base of the last whorl, with a row of 



