t'/<w,jiin'. <!-> -ini/nffil *inrl .xir'ni . Apical umbilicus about 'J mill, 

 wide, not sj)irally -moved within ; lip tliin :it in on flu- ver- 



t. \. ciir\ iiiLT strongly forward aho\ e. >t rai-htened in tin- middle; 

 eolumella short, concave, the ed^e of the i,-il.-x'd enMGtOtic calln- 

 appresscd ; parietal callus light. All. ":>, diam. .'10 mill. 



rhi/i}>j>i>i<* and Idnwl <>f Annmi, on the reefs .('nmiriL' : / 



Jaekion, 



This variety seems to be less narrow than the type, and tin- um- 

 bilicus is wider. The specimen described ahovr is from port .1 

 son, collected by Godeffroy. 



A. AN(SAsi Pilsbry. PI. 36, figs. 32, 33. 



Shell thick, subcylindrical, rather short, posteriorly Mibattenu^ 

 anteriorly rounded, smooth, whitish, variegated and clouded with 

 red band and broad spots, with white angular lines; aperture white, 

 outer lip thickened within, inner lip strongly arched. (Sowb.) 



Mid<U> lin-lin,-. I'm-/ .J-irkson (Angas). 



B. solida A. Ad. MS., SOWB., Conch. Icon., f. 10. li. *olMa 

 Gmel. MS. ANGAS, P. Z. S., 1867, p. 226. Not JL *oli,l<i Gmelin. 



Among the many It. solida before me, none show any approach 

 to the style of painting of this species, which I know only from the 

 works of Sowerby and Angas. The latter author says : a prettily 

 painted species, peculiarly marked with large angular blotches of 

 rose liver-color on a grayish-white ground. Length 1 inch. 



B. TKNUISSIMA Sowerby. PI. 34, figs. 10, 11. 



Shell ovate-oblong, subcylindrical, suhpellucid. very thin, 

 brown, variegated with subquadrate. dull brown spots, principally 

 arranged in four rows, umbilicus wide, margin of the aperture raiher 

 straight, columella margin white, fiat, arched, narrow. , >',.. 



, 



I!, tenuissimti SOWB., Conch. Icon., f. 4, Jan., 1N68. 



Remarkable for the thinness of its half-transparent text 

 (8owb). 



B. iN<oMM(iA Smith. PI. 39, fig. 72. 



Shell small, narrowly nmbilicated. o\at , white, shining, sculp- 

 tured above and below with few tian-verse >tri:i-. -triatt-d with lines 

 of growth ; apex very narrowly perforated. Aperture narrow, a 

 little dilated beneath, produced above the vertex above; columella 



