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angulate in the middle, a little convex beneath, provided with about 

 8 flat concentric lirse; aperture subrhomboidal, lip plicate within, 

 basal margin crenate ; columella oblique, sub-truncate below. 

 Alt. 5, diam. 6 mill. (Fischer.) 



Ceylon. 



G. bianfordiana NEVILL, Journ. Asiat. Sac. Beng., xxxviii, 1869, 

 p. 158, t. 17, f. 9. FISCHER, Coq. Viv., p. 265, t. 88, f. 3. 



The size mark was omitted on pi. 62, f. 65. Nevill's original 

 figure is copied on pi. 37, fig. 32. 



O. CICER Menke. PI. 62, fig. 75 ; pi. 26, figs. 18, 19. 



Shell perforate or subperforate, globose-conical, solid, whitish, 

 longitudinally striped with reddish or dark brown, the stripes often 

 broken into tessellations on the base ; whorls about 5, convex, the 

 first two yellow or rosy, smooth, the remainder coarsely spirally 

 lirate, the lira? about 6 or 7 on the penultimate whorl, separated by 

 deep interstices which sometimes interrupt the stripes of color ; 

 spire short ; body-whorl rounded ; base convex, finely marked with 

 about 8 narrow line; aperture subcircular, smooth and white with- 

 in ; columella arcuate, straightened in the middle and oblique, very 

 -obsoletely subdeniate below ; umbilical area small, white or yellow- 

 ish ; base frequently suffused with pink. Alt. 7, diam. 6 mill. 



Cape Region of S. Africa. 



T. deer MKE., in PHILIPPI, Abbild. u. Beschreib., i, Trochus, t. 3, 

 f. 5. (1844). Conchyl. Ca6.,p.l97, t. 29, f. 24. FISCHER, Coq. Viv., 

 p. 264, t. 88, f. 2.Gibbula musiva GOULD, Otia Conch., p. 159. 

 Leptothyra deer PILSBRY, Manual of Conch., x, p. 254, t. 54, f. 62. 



Turbo suHf/iiiiieu.* RI;KYK, Conch. Icon., t. 12, f. 55 ? (not of Linn.). 



Turbo roseus PHILIIMM, Conchyl. Cab., p. 85, t. 19, f. 10 (?). 



G. cicer is reported from Japan by Schrenck. (Amurl. Moll. p. 352.) 

 G. BENZI Krauss. PI. 51, figs. 13, 14. 



Shell orbicular-conoid, perforate, purplish, maculate with whitish, 

 orange or rose, irregularly transversely costate-striate ; whorls 5, 

 convex, separated by a distinct suture, the last veutricose, subangu- 

 lar in the middle ; base convex, striate ; aperture rotund-quadrate, 

 white within ; columella oblique, concave, dilated above ; umbilicus 

 profound, narrow. Alt. 8, diam. 9 mill. (Krauss.) 



Cape of Good Hope. 



The transverse stride are crowded, blunt, and very unequal above, 

 on the base rather regular and elevated. Young examples are 



