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the upper ones are somewhat ungulate, and the last scarcely exceeds 

 one-third of the entire altitude. The aperture is nearly circular." 



Alt. 4 mill. 



Habitat unknown. 



Philippics description is translated above. 



P. (iiTTTATA Phil., 1853. PI. 39, fig. 16. 



Shell ovate-conoid, imperforate, very smooth and shining, whorls 

 very convex, rapidly increasing; the last over three-fifths the entire 

 altitude ; aperture broad-ovate, nearly circular. One example is 

 brown with green spots [" Tropfen "] which are sometimes bordered 

 on one side with dark brown ; in the other specimen the ground- 

 color is brownish rose-red, and the "drops" have united into yellow- 

 ish-white longitudinal flammules; the spire is brownish purple in 

 both. Alt. 4 mill. Habitat unknown. 



Description and figure are from Philippi. 



P. INCONSPICUA Phil, 1853. PI. 39, fig. 19. 



Shell ovate-conoid, perforate, very smooth and shining; whorls 

 5j, very convex, and rapidly increasing, the last three-fifths of the 

 total length ; spire conic, but apical whorl blunt, white ; the following 

 whorls reddish brown, with oblique white brown-bordered flammules 

 above, apparently unicolored brown below, excepting a series of 

 white flecks around the umbilicus, but upon close inspection showing 

 very oblique brown lines as in P. minuta [== tessellata P. et M.] and 

 P. perforate. Alt. 5 mill. Habitat unknown. 



From P. minuta and P. perforata it is distinguished by the more 

 rapidly increasing whorls, etc ; from P. guttata it is separated by the 

 umbilical perforation. My description and figure are from Philippi. 



P. FULGENS (Koch) Phil, 1853. PL 39a, fig. 18. 



"The shell is thin, imperforate, steeple-shaped, acute, smooth and 

 very shining, unicolored olive brown. Only a narrow border on the 

 columella is white. The 7 whorls of which it is composed are but 

 slightly convex, especially above ; the last attains almost half the 

 altitude of the shell; the aperture is ovate, acute above." (Philippi.) 



Alt. 8, diam. 5 mill. West Coast of Australia. 



Very distinct, says Philippi, by the turreted form, the nearly 

 plane whorls and the uniform coloration. ,1 have not seen the 

 species. 



