ATY8. 260 



Mr. Sowerby's mistakes in reirard to tin 1 authority and loralit i- 

 of Gould's sprriis havr leen corrected 1>\- K. A. Smith, Ann. and 

 Ma-. N. II. ixT'J, |>. :)!."). It i- not easy to see how so many errors 

 In> made as occur in the later volumes of the ( 'om-hologia 

 . even when it is understood that they were written with- 

 out reference to the literature of the groups monographed. 



A. LABIOSA Philippi. Unfigiired. 



Sliell small, short, ovate, cylindric, very smooth, very delicately 

 transversely striated at the base when viewed under a strong lens; 

 spire retuse, whorls 2 ; aperture linear, dilated at base and unipli- 

 cate, continued above in a channel to the center of the vertex ; 

 margins of inner and outer lips thickened, obtuse. Alt. 1, diam. 

 I lines. (/%.) 



China (Largilliert). 



Sulla labiosa PH., Zeitschr. f. Mai., 1851, p. 64. 



The generic position is uncertain. An error (probably typo- 

 graphical) in Philippics description has been corrected above. 



A. TRANSLUCENS A. Adams. Unfigured. 



Shell cylindric-ovate, thin, pellucid, transversely striated at the 

 ends, the striae distant, the median area glabrous. Aperture nar- 

 row ; inner lip straight, truncated anteriorly ; outer lip somewhat 

 straightened in the middle, posteriorly twisted and produced, ante- 

 riorly crenulated (Ad.). 



Port Hamilton, lOfms. 



Alicu/n tr<inhire)i* A. AD., Ann. Mag. N. H., (3), ix, p. 159. 



This species most nearly resembles Aliciila sucdsa Ehrenberg, 

 from the Red Sea, but is narrower and more cylindrical in form, 

 and is thin and nearly transparent. (Ad.). 



\. -KCALINA A. Adams. L*Hfiynre'l. 



Shell cylindric-ovate, rimate, the apex sul (truncate and slightly 

 perforated, semi-opaque, corneous, transversely striated throughout, 

 striae distant, obsolete in middle. Aperture linear; inner lip 

 oblique, somewhat thickened ; outer lip a little straightened in the 

 middle. (J 



Tsii~Sim, Jupnn, 25 fms. 

 .<>c<t/in<i An., Ann. Mag., (3), ix, p. l-V.i. 



