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scarcely appreciable. Besides these, the upper half of the shell and 

 the point of the base are scratched with fine square-cut strise, which, 

 with a little difficulty, can be recognized as formed of minute con- 

 tiguous stipplings ; these are very remote in the middle of the shell, 

 but toward either extremity they become crowded. Epidermis 

 membranaceous. Colour white, with a faint ivory tinge. Crown 

 consists only of the flatly rounded margin of a very small pit-like 

 depression in front of the origin of the outer lip, which rises abruptly 

 above the top of the shell. Mouth curved, rather club than pear- 

 shaped, being gibbously enlarged in front and elongate and rather 

 narrow behind. Outer lip thickened, reflected, and sinuated above, 

 where curving forwards, it rises in a tooth-like form above the 

 crown ; from this point it sweeps very equably round to the point of 

 the pillar, the curve being very slightly flattened above and some- 

 what full on the base; it is patulous throughout; the very thin edge 

 is nowhere very prominent. Inner lip roundly convex on the body, 

 bluntly angulated at the top of the short scarcely curved and barely 

 truncate pillar. A thickish and rather prominent glaze joins the 

 two extremities of the outer lip; near its edge on the upper part of 

 the body this glaze has a few irregular rounded tubercles ; on the 

 base, where it is thickened to a pad, these tubercles increase in size 

 tind number, while the reverted pillar-lip is harshly covered with 

 them. The pillar lip is not quite closely appressed, having an over- 

 hanging edge and a closed chink behind it. Alt. 1'15, diam. 0*8. 

 Greatest breadth of mouth, 0*56 inch. (Wats.). 



South-east of the Philippines, 500 fms. 



S. niveus WATS., J. L. S. Lond. xvii, p. 343 ; Chall. Rep., p. 644, 

 pi. 48, f. 3. 



Only one specimen of this species having been found, it is im- 

 possible to say whether the roughening of the labial glaze is a specific 

 feature as in some of the Volutes, or the result of disease. In this 

 species the general form of the shell, and especially that of the body- 

 whorl is even liker a Bulla than is the case with Scaphander puncto- 

 striatus (Migh) ; but the apex is not perforated. As in that species 

 one, looking up the pillar, can only see a single complete whorl. 

 The minute stippling of the spirals resembles, on a still smaller scale, 

 that feature in Scaphander lignarms (Linne). Compared to Scaph- 

 ander mundus Watson, this is a much more tumid form, and the 

 sculpture is markedly different. (Wats.). 



