POT AMIDES. 167 



L. ZONALE, Brug. PL 34, figs. 3, 4 ; PL 35, fig. 14. 



Obscurely longitudinally plaited, forming slight tubercles on the 

 shoulder of the whorls, spirally sulcated ; chocolate brown, white 

 banded on the shoulder. Length, 1*5 in. 



Hongkong (Stimpson) ; Japan (Lischke). 



It is L. pyrenale, Quoy. 



Var. ATERRIMA, Dunker. Fig. 14. 

 Shell uni colored, dark chocolate. 



Japan. 



L. ATRAMENTARIA, A. Ad. PL 34, fig. 5. 



Whorls somewhat inflated below, spirally sulcate ; dark chocolate 

 or obscurely tessellated ; white at the suture ; columella arched, 

 white. Length, 1'5 in. 



Hob. unknown. 



L. MULTIFORMIS, Lischke. PL 35, fig. 13 ; PL 34, figs. 6, 8. 



Short, club-shaped, spirally striate, sometimes with longitudinal 

 ribs, stronger at the suture ; chocolate color, or tessellated or banded 

 with white. Length, 1 in. 



Japan. 



L. Cumingii of Reeve's Iconica (not Crosse). 



L. ANGULIFERA, Sowb. PL 35, fig. 17. 



Whorls flat, angulated on the body-whorl, longitudinally plaited, 

 cut into tubercles by three spiral grooves ; brownish or olivaceous- 

 black ; aperture grooved. Length, 1 in. 



Australia. 



Section LAMPANELLA, Morch, 1876. 



L. MINIMUS, Gmelin. PL 34, figs, 9-11. 



Longitudinally obscurely ribbed, ribs fading towards the middle 

 of the body whorl, spirally ridged, ridges beaded, more nodose 

 above; black (epidermis olivaceous), often with a white sutural 

 band, or white with a central black band, or chestnut or chocolate 

 colored or white or yellowish brown, sometimes white with chocolate 

 lines, interior chocolate brown. Length, 15 mill. 



So. Carolina to West Indies; Bermuda. 



I have endeavored vainly to separate into several species, as 

 Morch has done, this very variable form ; the coloring patterns 

 have not sufficient constancy for even varietal distinction. The 

 synonyms are : 



