CRYPTOSPIRA. ;M 



tint and in haying a thickened lip-margin, and in the second 

 plication being more unlike the lower one. 



M. TRICINCTA, Hinds. PI. 9, figs. 71, 72. 



Ash-color, very obscurely triple-banded with chestnut. 



Length, -9 inch. 



Straits of Macassar, coarse sand, at 11 fathoms (Belcher). 



The bands are usually more visible within the aperture, being 

 almost or entirely obscured by the gray callous coating. M. im- 

 mersa, Reeve (fig. 72), is a 



M. TRAILLII, Reeve. PL 9, fig. 73. 



Yellowish white, lip thickly reflected, columella five-plaited. 



Length, -55 inch. 



Malacca. 



Dr. Weinkauff thinks this is probably the young of M. Loeb- 

 beckeana (= elegans), but it seems to be much more cylindrical 

 than that species. It is in the Cumingian collection. 



M. SEXPLICATA, Dunker. PL 9, fig. 74. 



Grayish, inconspicuously longitudinally strigate, columella 

 six-plaited. Length, - 5 inch. 



Japan. 



Described by Sowb. in 1870 as M. obtusa, a specific name pre- 

 occupied by himself in 1846, and therefore changed to xexpli- 

 cata by Dunker in 1871, and to grisea by Jousseaume in 1875. 



M. ODORICYI, Bernardi. PL 9, fig. 75. 



White, with broad yellow bands, which are longitudinally 

 strigate with orange-brown ; interior of aperture orange. 



Length, 18 mill. 



Habitat unknown. 



Described from a single specimen in a worn condition. 



M. BERNARDII, Largill. PL 9, fig. 76. 



Fulvous ash, longitudinally streaked with grayish brown; 

 columella six-plaited. Length, 20 mill. 



China Sea. 

 M. OLIVELLA, Reeve. PL 9, figs. 77, 83. 



Inflated above, glassy white ; columella four- to five-plaited. 

 Length, 10 mill. 



N. S. Walts, Australia. 



