236 ASTRALIOl. 



granulose lira?, above nodose-plicate, last whorl subacutely angled 

 below, the angle bearing square, thick vaulted scales ; base imbri- 

 cately quadri-lirate ; aperture suboblique ; columella arcuate, silvery, 

 umbilical callus white. 



Habitat unknown. 



"A trochiform species in which the longitudinal ribs may be only 

 faintly traced, leaving nodules at the top of the whorls, and strong 

 obtuse square looking scales at the margin, while the whorls are en- 

 circled in the middle with two or three rows of minute granules." 



So\verby's description and figure are given. Compare A. tubero- 

 *um Phil. p. 227. 



A. PAGODULUM Sowerby Jr., 1886. PI. 63, fig. 28. 



"Shell imperforate, conical, orange-drab; whorls slopingly convex, 

 obliquely wrinkled-plaited, plaits, rather large, swollen, basal margin 

 of the whorls prickly scaled, base scale-ridged around the callosity." 



Habitat nnkn<m-n- 



Trochus afuleatus Reeve (preoc.) is a synonym. 



The original figure and description are given. 



A. p.U40i)us Tenison- Woods, 1879. Unfigured. 



Shell narrowly pyramidal, thin, pale roseate, variegated with 

 wide longitudinal olive bands; whorls 6, concave, very acutely 

 angular at the suture, armed with a regular row of short .spines, and 

 girdled with four or five lines of indistinct granulose line ; spines 

 numerous, obtusely angular, concave, 18 in number at the periphery 

 of the last whorl ; apex acute ; aperture obliquely quadrate, de- 

 pressed smooth inside, nacreous; labrum acute; columella curved, 

 truncate; base quite fiat, spirally lirate and very finely transversely 

 striate, pale yellowish white and very faintly spotted with brown. 



Alt. 15, diam. 18 mill. (Tenison- Woods) 



Moreton Jl'iy, Anxfi'dl'w. 



The original description is giving above. I do not know the exact 

 systematic position of the form. 



A. IIJEMATRAGUS Mciike. PI. 54, figs. 57, 58. 



Shell imperforate, pale ashen, elevated-conic, apex acute ; whorls 

 7, planulate above, with radiating oblique folds, which are produced 

 into short spines at the periphery ; last whorl carinated, with ten 

 to twelve spines in a single series ; base plano-concave, concentrical- 



