GIBBULA. 23.3 



A curious little form, quite distinct from any other known to me. 

 The figure and description are from specimens received from 

 GARRETT. 



G. SATORIUS Deshayes. PI. 40, fig. 23. 



Shell turbinate, subglobose, conoidal, blackish-brown, transversely 

 very finely lirate, lirse unequal, mostly punctate very regularly with 

 white ; spire short, acute ; whorls 6, slightly convex, separated by 

 linear sutures, slowly widening, the last large, globular, angular at 

 the periphery, obtuse below ; base profoundly perforate ; aperture 

 subcircular, very oblique, white ; columella cylindrical, slightly 

 tortuous. Alt. 6, diam. 6 mill. (Desk.} 



Id. Reunion. 



T. satorius DESK. Moll, de 1'Ile de la Reunion, p. 72, t. 9, f. 7, 8. 



G. STRIATA Garrett. 



Shell small, rather thin, globosely conical, grayish-brow r n, rarely 

 crimson, delicately mottled with whitish ; whorls 5, convex, last one 

 gibbose, subangulated at the periphery, closely lineated with large, 

 unequal sized, elevated spiral striae ; umbilicus whitish, small, with 

 deep spiral grooves within ; aperture roundly subquadrate, pearly 

 white, outer lip rather thin. Alt. 4, diam. 5 mill. (Garrett.} 



Viti and Samoa Is. 



G. striata GARRETT, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. iv, p. 201 (1872). 



According to Garrett this is a very rare species. I have seen no 

 specimens. 



G. LEHMANXI Menke. PI. 40, figs. 12, 13. 



Shell umbilicate, rather thin, orbicular-conoid ; whorls 6, separated 

 by impressed sutures, the first eroded, the following angular, flattened 

 above, gradate, strikingly painted, spirally lirate, lirse delicate, about 

 12 on the penultimate whorl ; last whorl dilated, biangular, or- 

 namented with transverse white and reddish-violet interrupted lines, 

 like flexuous rays; at the suture and periphery there are zones 

 formed of violet-brown spots alternating with white or yellowish 

 ones; base convex, with 15 to 16 cencentric lirse; coloration white 

 and reddish tessellated ; aperture subovate, margins thin ; columella 

 arcuate, subnodose inside below ; umbilical tract white, funnel- 

 shaped. Alt. 7, diam. 9 mill. (Fischer.) 



Western Australian coasts. 



