200 GIBBULA. 



lamellose-striate ; plicate or lamellose-striate below the sutures ; 

 base with 6 or 7 concentric lirse ; columella nearly straight, arcuate 

 above, terminating in a tubercle below ; umbilicus narrow. 

 Alt. 9, diam. 10 ; alt. 10, diam. 9 mill. 



Sicilian and Dalmatian Coasts. 



T. guttadauri PHILIPPI, Enumer. Moll SiciL, i, p. 177, t. 11, f. 1, 

 and ii, p. 154. PHIL., Conchyl. Cab., p. 179, t. 28, f. 6. FISCHER, 

 Coq. Viv., p. 147, t. 49, f. 2. 



Smaller than the preceding, and tricingulate on the body-whorl. 



G. FANULOIDES Fischer. PL 31, fig. 41-43. 



Shell umbilicate, conoid, rather thick ; whorls 5 to 6, convex, 

 canaliculate, spirally granose-lirate, above nodose ; cinereous macu- 

 lated with red and vermillion ; last whorl rounded, sulcate in the 

 middle, finely granose-lirate in the stilcus ; base convex, ornamented 

 with 9 to 10 concentric lirse, the interstices narrow ; aperture ovate ; 

 columella arcuate, base tuber cu lose ; umbilicus smooth, profound. 



Alt. 11, diam. 13 mill. (Fischer.') 



Habitat unknown. 



Trochus fanuloides FISCHER, Journ. de Conch., 1874, p. 373. 

 Coq. Viv., p. 333, t. 103, f. 3. 

 Combines the size of G. fanulum with the form of G. declivis. 



G. PULCHERRIMA A. Adams. PL 61, figs. 26, 27. 



Shell umbilicate, conoidal, solid, lusterless, white with a series of 

 red spots below the sutures, another beneath the periphery, and 

 more or less closely red-dotted over the whole shell. The spire is 

 conical, acute, somewhat scalariform ; the sutures very deeply 

 impressed ; whorls about 6, very convex, nodulose below the sutures, 

 the entire surface covered with spiral line which are distinctly beaded 

 on the base, less obviously so above, and which number about 12 on 

 the penultimate, 20 on the last whorl. The aperture is subcircular, 

 oblique ; outer lip bevelled to an edge, the bevel iridescent, pearly ; 

 the interior is very regularly lirate, the folds numbering about 14; 

 columella not thickened, arcuate, cut or excavated out, at its 

 junction with the body produced forward in a white lobe, ending 

 below in a denticle ; umbilicus deep, with a slight spiral rib near 

 its opening, ending in the columellar tooth. Alt. 14, diam. 16 mill. 



China ; Andaman Is. 



