432 THE aiiUISE OF THE CUBAQOA.' 



PLATE XXXVI. 

 FU8US (GOLUS) SIMILIS, Baird. 



Shell elongately fusiform, spindle-shaped, moderately thick, 

 rather solid, somewhat deeply grooved and ridged throughout 

 transversely, and finely striated across the ridges longitudinally ; 

 spire acuminated ; whorls slanting round the upper part, noduled 

 in the middle ; nodules moderate-sized, not distant from each 

 other, about 10 or 11 in number in each whorl; interior of the 

 aperture pure white, sharply ridged in the throat, guttately 

 noduled at the inferior part, columella callus slightly wrinkled. 

 Eostrum long, bent about the middle of its length ; canal twisted. 

 Of a dull white colour throughout, externally. 



The spire in the specimen we described is broken at the tip. 



Length of remainder 6 inches. 

 Breadth of body whorl 2 inches. 

 Hab. New Caledonia. 



