rATJNUS. 9 



Shell subulate, acuminate ; columella smooth, arched, extending 

 into a parietal callus ; aperture ovate, having an anterior canal 

 at the base. 



18. Faunus ater (Linnceus). 



Strombus ater, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii, p. 1213, no. 516; Rumph. Amb. 



pi. 30, fig. R ; Chemn. pi. 135, fig. 1227. 



Nerita atra, Miill. Verm. no. 375 ; Schroter, Flussconch. p. 371. 

 Strombus atropurpureus, Schroter, Flussconch. p. 372. 

 Strombus dealbatm, Gmel. 110. 46, p. 3523; Seba, Mus. pi. 56. 



figs. 13, 14. 



Cerithiumfluviatile, Fer. Syst. Conch, p. 69, no. 1. 

 Melanamona, Bowditch, Elem. Conch, pi. 6, fig. 19. 

 Pirena atra (L.), Mousson, Moll. Java, pi. 10, tig. 1 ; Reeve, Conch. 



Icoii. fig. 5. 

 Faunus ater (L.), H. & A. Ad., Gen. of Reo. Moll. ; Gray, Guide 



Syst. Distrib. ; Chemn. Man. Conch, tig. 2080. 

 Melanopsis atra (L.), Fer. Monogr. Melanops. pi. 2, fig. 7, p. -32 ; 



Sow. Gen. of Shells, fig. 1 ; Deshayes, Encycl. Meth., Verm, ii, 



p. 337, no. 11. 

 Pirena terebralis, Lam. Anim. s. Vert. no. 1 ; Quoy & Gaimard, 



Voy. Coquille, ii, p. 360 ; Sowerby, Conch. Man. fig. 316 ; Brot, 



Mater, iii, p. 23. 



Pirena picta, Reeve, Conch. Icon. fig. 3. 



Buccinum acicula, Gmel. p. 3503 ; Lister, Conch, pi. mlv, fig. 7. 

 Pirena acus, Lesson, Voy. Coquille, ii, p. 360. 

 Melanopsis atra, Pot. & Mich. Gal. pi. 31, figs. 7, 8. 

 Melanopsis princeps, Lea, Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. v, pi. 19, fig. 74; 



Lea, Obs. Gen. Unio, i, p. 194, pi. 19, fig. 74. 



Faunopsis princeps (Lea), Gill, Proc. Ac. N. S. Phil. 1863 (Monstr.). 

 Pirena pagodus, Reeve, Conch. Icon. fig. 4. 

 Faunas acer, Linn., Nevill, Hand List, ii, p. 217. 



Shell sharply elongately tapering, intense black, obscurely 

 minutely yellow-mottled ; whorls twenty or more, concavely 

 flattened, densely minutely wrinkle-striated ; aperture small, 

 columellar margin callously incurved. (Reeve.) 



Alt. 84, diam. 19 mm. (Reeve, Conch. Icon. fig. 5). 



Hob. Ceylon; Nicobars?; Moluccas; New Ireland; Penang ; 

 Java ; Philippines ; Timor ; Buru j Amboyna ; Celebes, etc. 



Var. perdecollata, Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 218. 



" Apparently a form constantly characterized by the strong 

 decollation, erosion of the surface and iron-rust, reddish colour of 

 the peristome, etc Very variable in size." (Nevill.) 



Alt. 76-5, diam. 21 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon, Southern Province (Nevill). 



