BULLA. 349 



B. CONSPERSA Pease. PL 39, fig. 73. 



Shell ovate, rather solid, perforate, smooth, marked faintly with 

 longitudinal striae of growth ; aperture contracted above, expanded 

 below ; outer lip slightly produced posteriorly ; white, promiscuously 

 spotted and mottled with white, black and brown of different shades, 

 towards the base encircled with a single red band which is generally 

 obsolete or altogether wanting. (Pse.). 



Marquesas Is. 



B. conspersa PSE., Amer. Journ. Conch., v, p. 72, pi. 8, f. 9. 1869. 

 Compare B. ovula Gld. with which this may prove identical. 



B. VERNICOSA Gould. Unfigured. 



Shell ovate-globose, solid, smooth, widely perforated ; ashy, 

 variegated with rufous, and encircled by four bands of brown spots 

 sometimes angular. Aperture narrow, lip straight, slightly inflected, 

 rufous-edged ; throat porcellaneous. Alt. 1*3 in., diam. *8 in. ( Gld.). 



Liu Kiu Is. (W. Stimp.). 



B. vernicosa GLD., Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, p. 138, Oct., 1859; 

 Otia Conch., p. 111. 



Very shining, less inflated and narrower aperture than B. am- 

 pulla ; more globose and more polished than B. australis (Gld). 



The following seems to be a synonym or variety of vernicosa. 

 VAR. OVULA (Gld.) Sowb. PL 36, figs. 34, 35. 



Shell oblong but with convex, not flattened lateral outlines; 

 slightly narrowed above; apical umbilicus narrow (1 to II mill, 

 diarn.), white and weakly spirally grooved within. Brown with 

 scattered white dots, and showing three or four spiral ill-defined 

 bands of darker clouding or mottling. Columella rather straight- 

 ened, with a chink along the edge of the reflexed crescentic white 

 callus. 



Alt. 24, diam. 16 mill. 



Alt. 21, diam. 13 mill. 



Boshiu, Japan ; Liu Kiu Is. (Fr. Stearns). 



B. ovula (Gould, where?) SOWB., Conch. Icon., f. 5, Jan., 1868. 



Evidently nearly allied to B. conspersa Pse. Perhaps this is the 

 shell Dunker called " B. ampulla." Angas (P. Z. S., 1867, p. 227) 

 lias quoted " B. ovulum Gld. MSS. in Mus. Cuming " as a synonym 



