108 MELONGENA. 



M. TUBERCULATA, Anton. 



No figure or locality is given with the description of this 

 species ; which has not been recognized. 



M. CORONA, Gmelin PI. 41, figs. 199-203. 



Bluish or chestnut-brown, with white bands ; same color and 

 bands within the aperture. Length, 2*5-4*5 inches. 



Florida and West Indies. 



The ordinary type of this species has erect or incurved scaly 

 spines on the edge of the square shoulder, usually crowded, with 

 a more or less prominent sub-basal series of spines ; sometimes 

 the latter is suppressed and sometimes the upper series is replaced 

 by two less prominent ones. 



M. Belknapi, Petit (fig. 201), is synonymous. I figure also a 

 small variety (fig. 200) illustrated recently by Mr. Sowerby in 

 the Proc. Zool. Soc. London. 



M. bispinosa, Phil. (fig. 203), is a variety of this species in 

 which the shoulder is encircled by a double girdle of spinose 

 tubercles, the upper one being most prominent. I have several 

 examples of this variety before me from Yucatan. 



M. Martiniana, Phil. (fig. 202), appears to be a specimen of 

 this (or possibly of the next) species with the spines almost sup- 

 pressed. 



Fusus bicolor, Say, described from immature specimens, has 

 not been identified properly heretofore : I am glad to be able, 

 from the examination of types sent to the Philada. Academy by 

 Mrs. Say, to identify it with M. corona. 



M. GALEODES, Lam. PI. 42, figs. 204-208. 



Pale brown, with the revolving ridges darker, or chestnut- 

 brown with the ridges whitish ; sometimes uniform cream-color ; 

 aperture usually white, brown-banded. The whorls are generally 

 frilled or scaly spinose at the sutural line, nodulous or spinose 

 on the shoulder, and sometimes with one or two lower lines of 

 spines, about equidistant one from another. 



Length, 1*5-2*5 inches. 



Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Singapore, China, Philippines. 



Mr. Tapparone-Canefri, in his review of the Murices of the 

 Red Sea, distinguishes, under the name of calcaratus, Dillwyn, 



