EUCHELUS. 435 



E. BACCATUS Menke. PL 62, figs. 72, 73. 



Shell globose-conic, imperforate, solid, pinkish, with sparsely 

 scattered reddish or blackish dots. Spire elevated, conical, con- 

 stricted by deep, canaliculate sutures ; whorls 5, convex, encircled 

 by closely beaded equal spirals, the interstices lamellose-striate; spirals 

 (typically) 9 on the penultimate whorl, 17 on the last, including 

 base. Body-whorl rounded ; aperture rounded, lip thick, crenulate 

 inside, columella concave, terminating in a minute tooth, and 

 bounded by a longitudinal groove. 



Alt. 11, diam. 9* mill. ; alt. 13 diam. 13 mill. 



S. Australia ; Singapore ; Solomon Is. 



Monodonta baccata MKE., Moll. Nov. Holl., p. 14. Tr. baccatus 

 Mke., PHIL., Conchyl. Cab., p. 173, t. 27, f. 13. FISCHER, Coq. 

 Viv, p. 292, t. 94, f. 2 ; t, 115, f. l. Trochus aspersus KOCH, Zeitschr. 

 f. Mai. 1846, p. 103. 



There is considerable variation in degree of elongation, some shells 

 being high, subscalariform. These have received the varietal name 

 of solutus Fischer (pi. 38, fig. 17). The number of line on the 

 penultimate whorl, their equality in size, and the coloration, are the 

 more salient specific characters. 



E. BELLUS Hutton. PL 67, figs. 80. 



Shell small, globose-conic, solid, thick (blackish or) pink varied 

 with darker; imperforate when adult, with a groove at the place of 

 the umbilicus. Spire short, conic ; apical whorl smooth, the follow- 

 ing whorl with three granose lirse, the next with 3 or 4 ; the penulti- 

 mate has 1 or 8 equal, grained lime, the interstices narrow ; last whorl 

 with ten such line. Whorls 5, convex, the last globose, descending 

 at the aperture. Aperture rounded, nacre with steel-blue and dark 

 red reflections, lirate inside ; columella concave, terminating in a 

 tooth, below which there is a narrow notch, and another tubercle 

 or tooth on the basal lip equal in size to the columellar denticle. 



Alt. 6J, diam. 6i mill. 



New Zealand; Chatham Is. ; Tasmania. 



E. bellus HUTTON, Cat. Mar. Moll. X. Z., p. 37, 1873 ; Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. S. Wales ix, p. 357, 1884; Trans. N. Z. Iiist. xv, t. 14, f. 1 

 (operculum and dentition). Huttonia iricolor KIRK, Trans. N. Z. 

 Inst. xiv, p. 282, 1882. 



A globose little shell, evenly grained all over. 



