STYLIFER. 291 



S. APICULATUS, Souverbie. PI. 71, fig. 44. 



Thin, very shining, translucent, subhyaline white, apex milky; 

 whorls 10, very convex, with deep sutures, the five superior ones 

 slowly increasing, the others rapidly, thinly subobliquely striu- 



late. Length, 1T5 mill. 



New Caledonia. 

 S. BRAZIERI, Angas. PL 71, fig. 47. 



Smooth, pellucid, white, polished; whorls 6, flattened just 

 below the suture, which is finely, callously margined, apex 



styliform. Length, 4 mill. 



Port Jackson, Australia. 



S. CuMiNGrANUs, Adams. PL 71, figs. 48, 46. 



Spire acuminated, apex styliform ; whorls numerous, the last 

 inflated ; aperture short, the coluraella rather straight. 



Length, 12 mill. 



Hob. unknown. 



S. PYRAMIDALTS, Reeve (fig. 46), figured but not described, and 

 no locality given, appears to be very similar. Deshayes 

 ascribes to it a shell from the Isle of Bourbon. 



S. SUBULATUS, Brod. & Sowb. PL 71, figs. 49, 50. 



Whorls 9-10, the superior ones styliform, afterwards rounded, 

 suture linear, lightly impressed. Length, 15'5 mill. 



West Indies. 



S. bulbiformis, Sowb. (fig. 50), is probably a synonym. 



S. SPECIOSUS, II. Ad. PL 71, fig. 57. 



Hyaline, spire attenuated and styliform above and somewhat 

 twisted, lower whorls inflated, somewhat straight-sided ; aperture 

 short, columella rather straight. Length, 16 mill. 



Mauritius. 

 S. BARRONI, A. Ad. PL 71, fig. 51. 



White, shining, semipellucid, apex mucronate ; whorls 7, con- 

 stricted, angulated above, longitudinally obliquely striated. 

 Length, 6'5 mill. 



Hob. unknown. 

 Found on a tropical asterias ; evidently deformed. 



S. EXARATUS, A. Ad. PL 71, fig. 52. 



White, shining, semipellucid ; whorls a little convex, trans- 

 versely sulcate, longitudinally lightl} 7 striate, suture impressed, 



