TROPHON. 149 



T. AUSTRALIS, Woods. 



Ovate, acuminate at each end, sordidly greenish ; whorls six, 

 convex, angular above ; obsoletely ribbed lengthwise, and finely 

 transversely lirate ; ribs on last whorl ten, vanishing anteriorly ; 

 spire acute ; aperture ovate, outer lip thin ; columella flattened ; 

 canal somewhat long and slightly recurved. 



L. 16, lat. 9 mill. 



Tasmania. 

 Xot figured. 



This and the preceding species may be young specimens of 

 Urosalpinx. 



T. FIMBRIATUS, Hinds. PI. 33, fig. 355. 



Light brown, sometimes obscurely banded, aperture white, 

 sulcate within; shell rather solid. Length, 1*5 inch. 



Straits of Macassar; 11 fathoms in sand and gravel; Formosa. 



Generic relationships doubtful. Reeve changed the name 

 to luculentus, in his monograph of Murex, because Lamarck 

 has described a Murex fimbriatus: as a Trophon, however, 

 Hinds' name will stand, and consequently that of Reeve becomes 

 a synonym to it. Murex lamelliferus , Dkr., from Formosa, 

 appears to be the same species. 



T. SQUAMEUS, Dunker. 



Ovate-fusiform, acute ; whorls eight, convex, angulate, and 

 flat-shouldered above the angle, the last whorl two-thirds of the 

 total length ; longitudinally plicate, crossed by imbricately 

 squamous revolving riblets ; lip crenulate, sulcate within ; canal 

 open, sub-umbilicate. Yellowish white, with interrupted chestnut 



bands. Length, 1 inch. 



Manilla. 



An unfio-urod species said by its author to resemble T. fim- 



briafus. 



T. CARDUUS, Brod. PI. 33, fig. 358. 



'Very like T. fimbriatus, but differs somewhat in the ornamenta- 

 tion of the spire. Dredged by Mr. Cuming from a coral reef, 

 twelve miles from shore, at a depth of 25 fathoms, at Pacosmayo 

 Peru. 



