CASSIDA11IA. 279 



C. SOPHIA, Brazier. PI. 8, tig. 99. 



Globosely inflated, rather solid, tabulately shouldered, spi- 

 rally engraved, more distinctly so at the base ; white, with 

 several rows of distant, large chestnut blotches. 



Length, 2*75 inches. 



N. S. Wales, Australia. 

 G. GLABRATA, D linker. PI. 9, fig. 8. 



Rather thin, without varices, smooth ; white, with rare light 

 chestnut flames at the suture. Length, 2*75 inches. 



Zanzibar. 



Appears to be sufficiently distinguished by its narrow form, 

 elevated spire, coloring, and especially the absence of brown 

 maculations on the lip varix. 



Unfigured Species of Cassis. 



G. DOLT AT A, Yal. W. Coast Central America. 



G. CORRUGATA, Swainson. Galapagos Is. 



C. NANA, Tenison-Woods. Australia. 



C. THOMSONI, Brazier. N. S. Wales. 



C. tiMBiLiCATA, Pease. Sandwich Islands. 



(. VKXILLUM, Kiener. = Vexilla (Purpurae). 



C. GLOBULUS, Menke. = Desmoulea. 



C. SCROBICULATA, 0. TENUiLABRis, C. MURiCATA, Menke. Java. 



Genus CASSIDARIA, Lam., 1812. 

 C. ECIIINOPHORA, Linn. PL 9, figs. 9-11. 



Globosely ovate, with five or six spiral tuberculated. ribs on 

 the body-whorl, and two or three smaller spiral ridges between 

 each rib ; light fulvous white, more or less stained with rusty 

 brown ; lip dentate within, and with the columellar callus white, 

 interior of aperture rusty brown. Length, 2-5-4-25 inches. 



Mediterranean Sea. 



Varieties occur with two to four rows of tubercles, thus con- 

 necting it more closely with G. Tyrrhena, which has no 

 tubercles or, at most, a single superior row and in which the 

 revolving riblets are subequal, numerous and cord-like. 



It is Buccinum rugosum, Linn, a variety with a single nodose 

 band; C. depressa, Phil. (fig. 10), a variety with the prominent 

 ribs not tuberculate ; C. tuberculosa, Schum.; C. Tyrrhena, Sowb. 



