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S. VESTALIS, Hinds. PI. 14, fig. 37. 



Whitish, very minutely spirally striated; whorls 6, rounded, 

 crossed by numerous, close, minute, simple varices. Length, 14 mill. 



New Guinea. 

 S. DELICATULA, Crosse. PI. 14, fig. 39. 



Thin, narrow, acuminated, very minutely spirally striated; whorls 

 about 11, rounded, crossed by unequal ribs, most of them lamellar, 

 some thickened, simple at the suture. Lengtn, 12 mill. 



New Caledonia. 



Reeve mentions a keel on the last whorl, but his figure does not 

 show it, and it is neither in the original figures nor the descriptions. 

 S. OVALIS, Sowb. PL 14, fig. 40. 



Minute, thick, bluish white; whorls 5, contiguous, somewhat 

 convex, lamellae oblique, white, thick, not numerous, elevated above 

 the suture ; aperture auriform, margin expanded. Length, 5 mill. 



Ins. Mindoro, Philippines. 

 S. CONNEXA, Sowb. PL 14, fig. 41. 



Pupiform, with obtuse spire, pale purple between the white 

 lamellae; whorls 5, very slightly convex, lamellae oblique, white, 

 close, connected. Length, 8 mill. 



Ins. Luzon, Philippines. 

 S. DUCALIS, Morch. PL 14. fig. 47. 



Whorls 8, rounded, contiguous, crossed by regular, subdistant 

 strong lamellae, a little dilated and irregularly joined at the suture. 



Length, 1 in. 



Xipixappi, W. Columbia. 



This is not S. principalis of Pallas, for which it is erroneously 

 figured in the Thesaurus and Iconica, The name was changed to 

 JS. duealis by Morch in 1875 and to S. simillima by Tapparone- 

 Canefri, in 1876. S. tenuis, Gray (not Sowerby) is the juvenile. 

 S. ACICULINA, Hinds. PL 14, fig. 42. 



Narrow, chestnut brown ; *whor Is 9, rather convex, crossed, by 

 somewhat distant, thin, white, lamellae, subangulated in the middle. 



Length, 9 mill. 



? W. Coast of America. 

 S. POLITA, Sowb. PL 14, fig. 43. 



Thin, highly polished, pale grey, very narrow, whorls 10, convex, 

 with numerous, close, rather thin lamellae, obsolete in the middle of 

 the whorls. Length, 22 mill. 



Xipixappi, W. Columbia. 



