:>48 BULL A. 



slightly twisted, arcuate below, reflexed, expanded. Alt. 5i, greater 

 <li;im. 3i, lesser diam. 3 mill. (5.). 



Off Sydney; S. Lat. 34 13', E. Long. 151 38' (Challenger). 



Bulla incommoda E. A. SMITH, P. Z. S., 1891, p. 442, pi. 35, f. 

 20. 



The few spiral striae at each end are rather far apart with the 

 exception of those immediately around the umbilicus, which are 

 more approximated. (S.). 



B. (JUOYI Gray. PL 39, fig. 71. 



Shell oval, solid, indistinctly and closely marbled with fleshy pur- 

 ple gray on a pale ground, with two or three ill-defined encircling 

 zones of heavier, darker mottling. ' Surface smooth, but sculptured 

 toward the base by separated spiral grooves, becoming closer below ; 

 apical perforation moderately wide, either spirally grooved within 

 or nearly smooth. Columella with a moderate, lunate white callus ; 

 parietal callus thin. Interior whitish or fleshy. Alt. 25-26, diam. 

 16 mill. 



Bay of Islands (Quoy) ; Auckland (Hutton ; Wright). 



Bulla striata Q. & G., Voy. de 1'Astrol., Zool. i, p. 354, pi. 26, f. 

 8, 9. Not of Linne. B. quoyii GRAY, DiefFenbach's N. Z. ii, p. 

 Jl :;. SMITH, Zool. Erebus & Terror, p. 5, pi. 1, f. 11. HUTTON, 

 Man. N. Z. Moll., p. 121. Not B. quoyi A. Ad., Sowb. or Cpr. 



Well distinguished from other species of the southwest Pacific by 

 the spiral grooves at the base. 



B. PEASIANA Pilsbry, n. n. PI. 34, fig. 8. 



Shell ovately-oblong, thin, light, perforate; outer lip straight ; 

 longitudinally finely striated, and marked with fine microscopic 

 spiral stria3. Color chocolate-brown, mottled with darker, and 

 freckled and blotched with white. (7^e.). 



Sandwich Islands (Pse.). 



Bulla marmorea Psi:., P. Z. S., 1860, p. 431. SOWB., Conch. 

 Icon., f. 16. Not B. marmorea Schroeter. 



The specimens before me are excessively similar to the \\Ysi 

 Indian B. OcddentoKi ; in fact would be considered that were it not 

 for the diHrrcnce in locality. Can the Sandwich bland! specimens 



be balla>t shells? The name of the species is preoccupied by 

 Schr< 



