JOSEPHA, CLEA. 207 



C. MAURA, A. Adams. Darnley^s Island. 



" This is a blackish brown shell, in some specimens lineated 

 with white ; the whorls are constricted just below the sutures, 

 and the upper ones are longitudinally plicate and somewhat 

 eroded." 



No dimensions given. Probably a form of lineolata. 



C. ELONGATA. Dunker. Hab. unknown. 



C. FUCATA, A. Ad. Japan. 



C. CROCEA, A. Ad. Philippines. 



Both these localities are on the authority of labels in the Cu- 

 mingian Collection, and being distant from the usual range of 

 the genus they may be considered rather doubtful. 



C. ALBOLIRATA, C. TENUicosTATA, Teuison-Woods. Tasmania. 



Subgenus Josepha, Tenison-Woods. 



Founded upon the following species, which differs from 

 Cominella in possessing a plait upon the columella. If it is 

 really distinct from Cominella, why is it not a Phos? 



C. TASMANICA, Tenison-Woods. 



Ovately fusiform, small, solid, opaque, flesh color and white; 

 whorls, including the nucleus 7, convex, angular, regularly and 

 neatly striate, striae distant and passing over the ribs, which are 

 raised , rounded, and interrupted above by a conspicuous groove ; 

 nucleus of two whorls, smooth, inflated ; aperture ovate, attenuate 

 posteriorly; labrum thin, acute, columella conspicuously unipli- 

 cate, canaliculate behind ; base concave, spirally lirate. 



Length, 10, diam. 4'5 mill. 



Tasmania, 

 Unfigured. I have not seen it. 



Genus CLEA, A. Adams. 



First proposed as a genus of the family Melanidtt, which the 

 shell resembles in its form, epidermis and habitat in fresh waters, 

 especially reminding one of the genus Hemisinus. The operculum 

 with its apical nucleus, no less than the lingual dentition, whereof 

 the formula is Tl-l in Clea, instead of 3'1*3 as in Melania, 

 induced Brot to remove the species to Buccinidse ; and really 



