BULLA. 349 



B. CONSPERSA Pease. PI. 39, fig. 73. 



Shell ovate, rather solid, perforate, smooth, marked faintly with 

 longitudinal stride of growth ; aperture contracted above, expanded 

 below ; outer lip slightly produced posteriorly ; white, promiscuously 

 spotted and mottled with white, black and brown of different shades, 

 towards the base encircled with a single red band which is generally 

 obsolete or altogether wanting. (Pse.). 



Marquesas Is. 



. conspersa PSE., Amer. Journ. Conch., v, p. 72, pi. 8, f. 9. 1869. 

 Compare B. ovula Old. with which this may prove identical. 



B. VERNICOSA Gould. Unfigured. 



Shell ovate-globose, solid, smooth, widely perforated ; ashy, 

 variegated with rufous, and encircled by four bands of brown spots 

 sometimes angular. Aperture narrow, lip straight, slightly inflected, 

 rufous-edged ; throat porcellaneous. Alt. 1*3 in., diam. '8 in. ( Old.}. 



Liu Kin Is. (W. Stimp.). 



B. vernieosa GLD., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, p. 138, Oct., 1859; 

 Otia Conch., p. 111. 



Very shining, less inflated and narrower aperture than B. am- 

 pulla ; more globose and more polished than B. australis (Old.). 



The following seems to be a synonym or variety of vernieosa. 

 TAR. OVULA (Gld.) Sowb. PL 36, figs. 34, 35. 



Shell oblong but with convex, not flattened lateral outlines; 

 slightly narrowed above; apical umbilicus narrow (1 to H milL 

 diam.), white and weakly spirally grooved within. Brown with 

 scattered white dots, and showing three or four spiral ill-defined 

 bands of darker clouding or mottling. Columella rather straight- 

 ened, with a chink along the edge of the reflexed crescentic white 

 callus. 



Alt. 24, diam. 16 mill. 



Alt. 21, diam. 13 mill. 



Boshiu, Japan ; Liu Kin Is. (Fr. Stearns). 



B. ovula (Gould, where?) SOWB., Conch. Icon., f. 5, Jan., 1868. 



Evidently nearly allied to B. conspersa Pse. Perhaps this is the 

 :shell Dunker called " B. ampulla." Angas (P. Z. S., 1867, p. 227) 

 ias quoted " B. ovulum Gld. MSS. in Mus. Cuming " as a synonym 



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