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L. SULCULOSA, Phil. PI. 43, fig. 52. 



Rather thin, whorls flatly convex above, spirally obtusely ribbed, 

 with intervening broad grooves, periphery angulated; fawn color, 

 ribs sometimes stained with livid purple. Length, 20 mill. 



North Australia. 

 L. OBESA, Sowb. PI. 43, fig. 53. 



Solid, smooth, shining, very finely spirally grooved, periphery 

 obtusely angulated, suture sometimes margined; flesh color or 

 nearly white, aperture and columella orange-brown, the latter 

 sometimes purplish. Length, 18-22 mill. 



Sandwich and Viti Is., Philippines, Australia. 



It is L. coccinea, Martyn, L. Umax. (Mart.) Gray. 



L. MAURITIANA, Lam. PI. 44, figs. 71, 70-75. 



Ash colored, often with a suffused or narrow darker band round 

 the middle, smooth, or minutely spirally striated, periphery obtusely 

 angulated, columella and aperture chestnut colored, the latter with 

 a white band near the base. Length, 20-23 mill. 



Mauritius, N. Zealand, Australia, Lord Howe's IsL 



L. laevis, Reeve, (fig. 72), "not Phil."=L. pseuMaevis, Nevill, 

 L. laevis, Phil, (for I think Reeve's figure represents Phillippi's 

 species), L. unifaseiata, Gray, L. Diemenensis, Quoy, (fig. 73), L. 

 antipodum, Phil. L. Africana, Reeve, not Phil. (fig. 75), L. aeuta, 

 Menke, L. penitaria, Wood, L. luetuosa, Reeve, (fig. 70), and L. eincta, 

 Quoy, (fig. 74), are synonyms. 



L. RUFA, Recluz. PL 43, fig. 54 (enlarged). 



Rather solid, minute, slightly umbilicated, smooth, polished, 

 orange brown, indistinctly banded with chestnut; aperture small, 

 lip thick. 



Hab. unknown. 



Described by Reeve from a specimen named by Recluz, in the 

 Cumingian collection ; dimensions not given. 



L. STRIATA, King. PI. 44, figs. 58, 59. 



Subglobose, whorls convex, rapidly enlarging, spirally sharply 

 striate; ashy grey or brownish, aperture chocolate color with an 

 inferior light band; columella widely excavated, chocolate above 

 and below, flesh color in the middle. Length, 15-18 mill. 



Azores, Cape Verd and Canary Is. Guinea. 

 It is L. globosa, Dkr. (fig. 59), L. Canariensis, d'Orb., L. 

 arenicola, (Nutt.) Dunker, L. affinis, d'Orb. 



