224 GLYPHIS. 



ing to Deshayes, F. minuta LAM., see An. s. V., Edit. Desh. vii, p. 

 599, footnote). 



A beautiful little species, having radiating black lines. Deshayes 

 is doubtless wrong in saying that the F. minuta of Lamarck is dif- 

 ferent from the species generally known under that name. See 

 Delessert, Rec. de Coq., for a figure of Lamarck's type. 



G. VARIEGATA Sowerby 2d. PL 61, fig. 26. 



Shell small, oblong, about twice as long as wide ; depressed, the 

 back slope a little convex, about twice the length of the front slope. 

 Orifice narrow, long, tripartite. Sculptured with fine alternating 

 radiating riblets crossed by finer concentric threads, continuous 

 over the radii. 



Color whitish or buff, with about seven broad dark-brown stripes 

 or spots not reaching to the apex, often coalescent around the base. 

 Interior white, showing the dark maculations ; the hole-callus some- 

 times having a dark horse-shoe shaped boundary, truncated behind. 

 Side-margins slightly arcuate. Length 11, width 5i, alt. 2f mill. 



St. Thomas, W. Indies. 



F. variegata SOWB., Thes. p. 200, f. 172, 173. 



Allied to G. minuta but with the rays not split into lines, the 

 intercostal spaces more distinctly cut into pits, the riblets less dis- 

 tinctly beaded, the orifice not black-bordered outside. I am never- 

 theless inclined to rank the form as a variety of the G. minuta. 



G. CANDIDA Sowerby. PL 36, fig. 25. 



Shell oblong, nearly twice as long as broad, depressed ; slope in 

 front of the hole less than half the length of that back of it. Length 

 of hole contained 7-8 times in length of shell. Sculptured with fine 

 alternately larger and smaller radiating riblets, decussated by finer 

 concentric striae. 



The color is white or whitish, sometimes with ill-defined, pale 

 brown rays. Inside white ; hole narrow, twice as long as wide ; 

 hole-callus distinctly truncated posteriorly ; edge of shell very finely 

 crenulated. The side margins are somewhat arched, so that the 

 shell rests upon the two ends alone. Length 15, width 8, alt. 4-4J 



mill. 



Habitat unknown. 



F. Candida SOWB. Conchol. Illustr. f. 58. RP;EVE, Conch. Icon, 

 f. 89. F. angustata G. B. SOWERBY 2d., Thes. iii, p. 200, f. 170, 

 171. 





