108 LIOTIA. 



FAMILY LIOTIID^E. 

 Genus LIOTIA, Gray, 1842. 



L. SCALAROIDES, Reeve. PL 36, fig. 87. 



Subglobose, white, stained with chestnut, with seven distant oblique 

 varices, crossed by a few raised spiral strisB, umbilicus moderate, with 

 angular margin, interior of aperture salmon-colored. Diam. 15 milL 



Philippines. 

 L. DEPRESSA, Reeve. PI. 36, fig. 88. 



Flatly rounded, spire remarkably depressed, last whorl somewhat 

 shouldered, distantly obliquely costate, with distant spiral ribs, the 

 intersections subspinous or nodose, interstices punctate in spiral 

 series. Diam. 21 mill. Philippines. 



L. VARICOSA, Reeve. PI. 36, fig. 89. 



Angularly globose, with longitudinal thick varices, rendered nod- 

 ulous by the crossing of spiral lira?, interstices punctate. 



Diam. 18 mill. 



L. CIDARIS, Reeve. PI. 36, fig. 90. 



Depressed globose, solid, rounded, with broad varices and rather 

 wider interspaces, crossed by spiral ribs, of which two median ones 

 are more prominent, lower part of the body whorl deeply punctate* 



Diam. 21 mill. Philippines. 



L. PERONII, Kiener. PI. 36, figs. 91, 92. 



Shell shouldered, radiately distinctly ribbed to the shoulder, be- 

 low which they become obsolete, with a spiral rib forming the 

 shoulder and another just below it, tooth somewhat tubercular, and 

 numerous small elevated spiral lirse, becoming granular below, be- 

 tween the lirse are minute punctations, and a row of large, deep pits 

 revolves around the base, outer lip strongly, crenulately varicose. 



Diam. 12-20 mill. 



China, Australia, Philippines, Mauritius, Vlti Is. 



L. Hermanni, Dunker is a synonym. 

 L. CRASSIBASIS, E. A. Smith. PL 36, fig. 94. 



Solid, umbilicated, smooth ; whorls 4, plane above, scarcely slop- 

 ing, bicarinate, radiately ribbed, and spirally lirate, base produced 

 and greatly thickened, forming a very thick basal lip. 



Diam. 14 mill. Habm un j, )Mirn , 



