FUSING. <)0 



F. OCELLIFERUS, Bory, PI. 39, fig. 165. 



Whitish, with pale yellowish brown, longitudinal strigations ; 

 revolving ribs rather broad and flattened, disposed to break up 

 into tuberculations, and striate on the top ; the inter-channels 

 each with a single narrow ridge ; whorls peculiarly appressed 



below the sutures ; shell thin. Length, 4 inches. 



East Indies ? 



F. MINUTISQUAMOSUS, Reeve. PL 39, fig. 166. 



Longitudinally plicately ribbed, crossed by squamous fine ridges. 



Yellowish white. Length, -15 inch. 



Hob. unknown. 



I am not acquainted with this species, of which Reeve has 

 only given us a back view : it may be a Ooralliophila, perhaps. 



F. PULCHELLUS, Phil. PI. 39, fig, 167. 



Light chestnut-color, the longitudinal ribs dark chocolate, ex- 

 cept upon the periphery, where they are tipped with white, form- 

 ing an nterrupted band. Length, 22 mill. 



Mediterranean Sea. 



F, NIPONICUS, E. A. Smith. PI. 39, fig. 168. 



Whitish or yellowish, brown stained on the spine, and with a 

 narrow brown band on the body-whorl ; white within. 



Length, 22 mill. 



Japan. 



Evidently immature, and very probably not a true Fusus. 

 F. SIMPLEX, E. A. Smith. PL 39, fig. 169. 



White, under a smooth, grayish-olive epidermis. 

 Length, 18 mill. 



Japan. 



Certainly a very young shell ; very probably its adult form has 

 an older name. 



F. RUBROLINEATUS, Sowb. 



Shell rather short, light reddish, bifasciate with chestnut, dis- 

 tantly lineated with spiral red lines, thinly striated ; spire rather 

 short ; whorls seven, marked with rather distant rounded ribs 

 and spiral lines, with a wide chestnut band above ; aperture 



Kb-ovate, terminating in a sub-elongate canal. 

 Agulhas Bank, South Africa. 

 



