60 FUSING. 



F. CINEREUS, Reeve. PL 37, figs. 139-141. 



Shell more or less shouldered ; canal rather short; spire long. 

 Ribs generally whitish ; revolving lirae, alternately larger and 

 smaller, cross the ribs, and the larger lirse are brownish ; the 

 interstices of the sculpture are brownish, sometimes variegated 

 with white. Length, 20 mill. 



Farallone Isles to San Diego, CaL ; La Paz, L. CaL Gabb. 



Fusus luteopictus, Dall (fig. 140), is the shell which many 

 Californian collectors have erroneously referred to F. ambustus, 

 Gld., and which others have identified as F. geniculus, Conrad : 

 the latter is a miocene fossil, the figure of which is not sufficiently 

 good for recognition, the type lost. I do not doubt the identity 

 of luteopictus with cinereus, which was described without locality, 

 and as a Turbinella. P. Taylorianus, Reeve, (fig. 141), appears 

 to be a worn, immature state of the same species. 



F. DUNKERI, Jonas. PL 37, fig. 142. 



White, with a brownish interrupted zone. Length, 20 mill. 



Australia. 



This is evidently a very much worn specimen and perhaps not 

 adult; the locality, also, has not been confirmed by subsequent 

 collectors. Dr. Philippi considered F. Taylorianus, Reeve, a 

 synonym, but I do not think the condition of Dunkeri justifies a 

 positive conclusion. If the two species be merged the adopted 

 name will be Dunkeri, which has decided priority of publication. 



F. CRATICULATUS, Brocchi. PL 37, figs. 143, 144. 



Reddish brown, resembling F. Syracusanus somewhat in form 



and sculpture. Length, 31 mill. 



Mediterranean ; rather rare. 



F. scaber. Lam. (fig. 144), is a synonym. 



F. SYRACUSANUS, Linn. PL 37, figs. 145, 146. 



Whitish, with usually the shoulders of the whorls chestnut- 

 brown, as well as the canal, a median band of the same 0:1 the 



body-whorl. Length, T5 to 2;25 inches. 



Mediterranean. 



The form and coloring are remarkably similar in a number of 

 specimens from various localities, now before me; yet a variety 

 figured by Reeve (fig. 146), is larger, whorls rounded, without 



