GLYPHI3. 227 



Color slate-blue with numerous (about 20) narrow blackish-green 

 rays some of them often split into lines. Hole twice as long as wide, 

 indistinctly tripartite, about one-eighth to one-ninth the length of 

 the shell, and situated in front of the middle. Interior bluish, the 

 hole-callus bounded by a black line, and very distinctly truncated 

 behind. Edge a little crenulated. Length 17, width llf, alt. 7 

 mill. 



New Guinea. 



F. tegula RVE. Conch. Icon., f. 122, 1850. SOWB., Thes., p. 198, 

 f. 57, 58. 



A slate-colored species, black-rayed and having the concentric 

 sculpture nearly obsolete. 



Species of doubtful position. 



G. ? MONILIFERA Hutton. Unfigured. 



Ovate, white, radiated with moniliform ribs and obscurely can- 

 cellated ; border smooth or crenulated. Height '2, length '6, 

 breadth "45 inch. (IT.) 



Stewart's Id., 15 fms. 



Lucapina monilifera HUTTON, Cat. Mar. Moll. New Zealand, 

 1873, p. 42; Journ. de Conchyl. 1878, p. 35; Manual of N. Z. 

 Moll; p. 106, 1880. 



May be a Megatebennus, but the description is not sufficiently de- 

 tailed to enable one to classify it. 



G. ? SCROBICULATA Nevill. PI. 41, fig. 38. 



Shell small, depressed, almost regularly oval, the sides a little 

 narrowed in the middle, rounded in front and behind ; white, with 

 scarcely distinct, brownish, radiating bands. Surface all over min- 

 utely pitted and ornamented with subobsolete radiating strise ; fora- 

 men wide-oval, surrounded by an elevated margin ; margin of the 

 aperture thin, minutely crenulated. Inside white. Length 9s, 

 breadth of, alt. 2-} mill. (Nev.) 



S. province Ceylon. 



Fissurella (.*) scrobiculata NEVILL, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 

 xxxviii, p. 163, t. 17, f. 15. 



The sculpture of this interesting shell is very peculiar, the surface 

 being covered with rough diamond-shaped scrobiculations, perhaps 



