SCALARIA. 83 



spiral striae, mouth encircled with a strong varix. Length, 4 mill. 



Torres Sts., N. Australia. 



Section ACHILLA, H. Adams, 1860. 



S. ACUMINATA, Sowb. PL 17, figs. 30, 35. 



Narrow, with 15 somewhat convex whorls, pale fulvous, with two 

 chestnut bands, and very numerous, close longitudinal, curved 

 striae, base keeled. Length, 1 '5-1 '75 in. 



Malacca, Japan. 

 S. FUSCA, Sowb. PI. 17, fig. 37. 



Narrow, with 9 somewhat convex whorls, yellowish brown with 

 longitudinal chestnut flames, spirally very finely striated. 

 Length, 22 mill. 



Sierra Leone. 

 S. MINOR, Sowb. PI. 17, fig. 38. 



Whorls 8, well rounded, a little angular above, yellowish brown, 

 with two spiral chestnut bands, obliquely, longitudinally sinuously 

 ridged, with a single spiral ridge at the lower part of the body 

 whorl, and chestnut colored below it. Length, 18 mill. 



Mouth of the Indus. 



Described by A. Adams under the preoccupied name of gracilis. 

 Its nearest ally is S. acuminata. 



S. FR^ELONGA, Jeffreys. PL 17, fig. 36. 



Whorls 12-15, convex, gradually enlarging, with numerous sub- 

 distant, oblique, curved, riblets, and about 5 spiral striae, whorls 

 angulated in the middle, base with a spiral keel, and smooth below 

 it. Length, 17'5 mill. 



N. Atlantic. 



Unfigured Species. 



S. FORMOSA (for S. pulcherrima, Mts., not Sowb.), S. HISPIDULA 



and S. STRIATISSIMA, Monts. Mediterranean. 



S. RUPICOLA, Kurtz. N. Carolina. 



S. LEPTALEA, Bush. N. Carol inn. 



S. SUBVARICOSA (Dkr. Ms.), S. SC^EVE, S. FILARIS, S. ^EOSPILA, S. 



PRETIOSULA, S. TURRITELLULA, and Var. RlISEI, S. OCTOCOSTATA, 

 S. QUINDECEMCOSTATA, S. MICROMPHALA, S. ERECTISPINA, S. 



VOLUBILIS, S. SPIN^-ROS^:, S. SPURiA (S. pseudo-scalata, Chemn.), 

 S. NOVEMCOSTATA, all of Morch. West Indies. 



