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shining, showing the spots through ; margin very minutely crenu- 

 lated. Fissure narrow, subelongate, equalling two-fifths the dis- 

 tance from front margin to summit. Length 6$, breadth 43, alt. 



2:1 mill. (Sow.) 



Island of Art, New Caledonia. 



E. maculata Souv., Journ. de Conchy 1. 1872, p. 55, t. 1, f. 6. 

 The name is preoccupied by A. Adams for a Japanese species. 



E. MACULATA A. Adams. PI. 28, fig. 4. 



Depressed-conic, capuliform, white, spotted with brown, having 

 radiating nodulous riblets ; vertex posteriorly inclined ; aperture 

 oval, margin crenulated, deeply fissured in front, fissure long, narrow. 

 A very pretty cup-shaped species, mottled with pale brown, and with 

 the radiating ribs distinctly nodulous. (Ad.) 



Gotto Is., Japan. 



E. maculata AD. in Thes. Conch, iii, p. 214, f. 31, 32. 

 E. PUXCTATA A. Adams. PI. 28, fig. 33. 



Ovate-conic, whitish-gray, beautifully punctate with green ; vertex 

 subcentral, inclined backward ; longitudinal ribs alternately larger 

 and smaller, beautifully granulated ; margin of the aperture cren- 

 ulated, excurved, deeply fissured in front. (Ad.) 



San Nicholas, Id. of Zebu, Philippines, at low water. 



E. punctata AD. P. Z. S. 1851, p. 84, no. 19. SOWB. Thes., p. 215, 

 f. 29, 30. 



E. VARIEGATA A. Adams. PL 28, fig. 12. 



Depressed-conic, white variegated with gray ; apex obtuse, sub- 

 central ; numerous rugose, unequal, acute, radiating ribs ; margin 

 denticulate. (Ad.) 



Camaguan, Philippines, on rocks at low water. 



E. variegata AD., P. Z. S. 1851, p. 84, no. 20. SOWB., Thes. p. 



215, f. 9, 10. 



E. FULIGINEA A. Adams. PI. 28, fig. 3. 



Elliptical, much depressed, fuligineous, apex subcentral, inclined 

 backward ; ornamented with close, equal, granulose radiating rib- 

 lets and concentric incremental lines ; aperture oval, green inside ; 

 margin crenulated, fissured in front, the fissure produced into a 

 canal inside. (Ad.) 



E.fuliginea AD., P. Z. S. 1851, p. 84, no. 22. SOWB., Thes. p. 



216, f. 7, 8. 



