M.\I:I\. <i!) 



B, \ i STALK, Ilimk I'l. 1 I. fig, 87, 



Whitish, very minutely -pirally striated; whorl- <>, rounded, 

 rr >->< I by mi inert nis, close, minute, simple varicr-. Length, 1 I mill. 



New Gull"". 

 S. i>i:i,irATn,A, (Wse. IM. 14, ti- M. 



Thin, narrow, acuminated, very minutely spirally striated : whorl- 

 ahoiit 11, rounded, crossed ly unequal rils, most of them lamellar, 

 some thickened, simple at the suture. Leii-tn, \'2 mill. 



New Caledonia. 



Reeve mentions a keel on the last whorl, l>ut his figure dors not 

 show it, and it is neither in the original figures nor the descriptions. 

 S. OVALIS, Sowb. PI. 14, %. 40. 



Minute, thick, hlnish white; whorls 5, conti^mms, somewhat 

 convex, lamellae oblique, white, thick, not numerous, elevated above 

 the suture; aperture auriform, margin expanded Length, 5 mill. 



Ins. Mindoro, Philippines. 

 S. CONNKXA. Sowb. PL 14, fig. 41. 



Pupiform, with obtuse spire, pale purple between the white 

 lamellae; whorls 5, very slightly convex, lamellae oblique, white, 

 close, connected. Length, 8 mill. 



///>. Luzon, Phi/iji/>in':*. 



S. DUCALIS, Morch. PL 14. fig. 47. 



Whorls 8, rounded, contiguous, crossed by regular, subdistant 

 strong lamellae, a little dilated and irregularly joined at the suture. 



Length, 1 in. 



This is not S. prhn'iim1i* of Pallas, for which it is erroneously 

 figured in the Thesaurus and Iconica, The name was changed to 

 S. ducalis by Morch in 1875 and to S. ximWima by Tapparone- 

 Canefri, in 1876. S. tennis, Gray (not Sowerby) is the juvenile. 

 S. ACICULINA, Hinds. PL 14, fig. 42. 



Narrow, chestnut brown; whorls !), rather convex, crossed by 

 somewhat distant, thin, white, lamellae, subangulated in the middle. 



Length, 9 mill. 



'! JT. Cnnxt nf America. 

 S. POLITA, Sowb. PL 14, fig. 43. 



Thin, highly polished, pale grey, very narrow, whorls in, om\ 

 with numerous, close, rather thin lamella?, obsolete in the middle of 

 the whorls. Length, 22 mill. 



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