BRODERIPIA. 47 



minute, recumbent, spiral, dextral, the tip eroded. Inside scarcely 

 nacreous, the color-pattern showing through. 



Length 6, breadth 4, convexity 1/6 mill. 



Habitat unknown. 



This is a shell smaller than B. iridescens, and more convex ; the 

 apex is nearer the posterior margin ; the interior is scarcely pearly. 

 The coloration and lack of granulation distinguish it from B. 

 cumingi Ad. 



B. CUMINGII A. Adams. PL 2, figs. 43-44. 



Shell ovate, depressed-convex, subpellucid, pallid, painted with 

 red rays, concentrically corrugated-striate, stride granulose ; vertex 

 posterior, excentric, submarginal ; aperture patulous, pearly within, 

 the margin acutely angular, prominent, posteriorly rather straight- 

 ened. Granulated on the upper surface ; the columellar margin is 

 also prominent and angulated. (Ad.} 



Capul, Philippines. 



B. cumingi AD., P. Z. S. 1850, p. 39 ; Thes. Conch, ii, p. 832, t. 

 173, f. 34, 35. SOWERBY in Conch. Icon., f. 2. 



Sowerby says that the shell from which the original figures were 

 drawn has been lost but an inferior specimen remains. 



B. ROSEA Broderip. PI. 2, figs. 24-28. ' 



Shell limpet-like, but with a recurved beak projecting beyond the 

 posterior outline of aperture ; very convex, sloping convexly toward 

 the front margin. Surface lusterless, showing under a lens rather 

 rude concentric growth-lines, and very numerous, close, fine striae 

 radiating from apex to margins. The coloration consists of narrow 

 red stripes obliquely descending from the median line to the borders, 

 forming a series of V-shaped markings. The beak is rolled forward 

 and a trifle inclined laterally, but the (dextral) apical whorl is lost. 

 The aperture is oval, posterior margin scarcely expanded ; its cavity 

 is deep, scarcely perceptibly nacreous. 



Length 4J, breadth 2J, convexity 2*1 mill.; length of aperture 

 3f mill. 



Grimwood's Island, S. Pacific; Ceylon. 



Scutella rosea BROD., P. Z. S. 1834, p. 48. Broderipia rosea 

 GRAY. B. rosea Bred., ADAMS, P. Z. S. 1850, p. 39 ; Thes. Conch, 

 ii, p. 832, t. 173, f. 30, 31. SOWERBY, in Conch. Icon., f. 1. , 



The shell described above and figured on pi. 2, figs. 24, 25, 26, seems 

 to me to represent this species. Arthur Adams has wrongly referred 



