ACTION. 151 



A. pudicus AD., P. Z. S. 1854, p. 60. Tornatella pudica REEVE, 

 Conch. Icon, xv, pi. 3, f. 13. 



Described from one dead specimen. 

 A. VIRGATUS Reeve. PI. 20A, figs. 63, 64. 



Shell stoutly ovate ; transversely finely linearly grooved through- 

 out ; ivory-white, conspicuously obliquely streaked with black ; 

 spire short, rather obtuse, apex sharp ; columella one-plaited. 

 (Eve.). 



Masbate, Philippines, in 7 fms. (Curning). 



Tornatella virgata RVE., P. Z. S. 1842, p. 60 ; .Conch. Syst. ii, pi. 

 206, f. 8, 9 ; Conch. Icon, xv, pi. 2, f. 8. 



A. FLAMMEUS Gmelin. PI. 20A, figs. 58, 59. 



Shell stoutly ovate, closely and densely punctured-grooved 

 throughout ; white, streaked with reddish flames or crescent-shaped 

 spots. Spire rather short. Columella strongly one-plaited. (Eve.). 



Java ; Islands of Ticao and Correjidor, Philippines, in 7 fms. 

 (Cuming) ; off Nukalofa, Tongatabu, 18 fms. ; Levuka, Fiji, 12 fms. ; 

 Off southwest point of Papua, 28 fms. (Challenger) ; Torres Strai. 

 (Brazier) ; East Africa, Querimber Is. and Mauritius (Martens). 



Voluta flammea GMEL., Syst. Nat. xiii, p. 3435 (excl. var.).Bul- 

 imus variegatus BRUG., Encycl. Meth. vers, i, p. 336, pi. 452, f. 1 

 (Tornatella flammed). Tornatella flammea LAM., An. s. Vert, vi, p. 

 219. SOWB., Genera, ii, f. 1. KIENER, Coq. Viv. Torn., p. 1, 

 pi. 1, f. 1. REEVE, Conch. Icon, xv, pi. 1, f. 2. MARTENS, Moll. 

 Mauritius, in Mobius' Reise, p. 303 ; Monatsber. Berl. Akad. 1879, p. 

 739.Actceonflammeus A. AD., P. Z. S. 1854, p. 59. BRAZIER, 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Wales, ii, 1878, p. 75. WATSON, Chall. Rep. 

 Gastr., p. 626. 



The young shell has an umbilical chink. 

 A. ORYZA Reeve. PI. 18, fig. 82. 



Shell ovate, rather solid, transversely linearly grooved through- 

 out ; ivory white ; columella rather prominently one-plaited. (Eve.). 



Catbalonga, Luzon, Philippines (Cuming) ; Mauritius (Lienard) ; 

 Reunion (Desh.). 



Tornatella oryza RVE., P. Z. S. 1842, p. 62 ; Conch. Icon, xv, pi. 

 4, f. 18. DESH., Catal. Moll. Reunion, p. 57. MARTENS, in Mobius' 

 Reise n. Mauritius, p. 302. 



