95 



Hab, : — Tugela River mouth N. by W. £, W., distant 15^ miles. 

 Depth, 40 fms. Bottom, mud. 



Compared with iV. acuiniiiata. Reeve (Triton) this shell is 

 smaller, narrower in proportion to its length, its longitudinal ribs 

 are more nunrerotis, and the transverse lir^e more defined and 

 distant. 



LoTORiUM KANELLoiDES, Reeve, Proc- Zool. Soc. 1844 

 (^Triton), Conch. Icon. Triton (Plate III. fig. 10). 



Hat). : — bcoitsburgii Ligtit-tiuuse, iNatal iN.W. by W., distant 8 

 miles. Depth, 92 tms. Bottom, sand and shells. 



The shell is narrower, and the tubercles smaller and more 

 numerous than in Reeve's type. Similar specimens have been 

 received from Japan. Reeve gives — Island of Luzon, Philip- 

 pines, as the locality. 



LoTORiUxM NASSARiFORAiE, n. sp- (Plate II. fig. 7). Shell fusi- 

 form, rather solid, yellowish white, interruptedly banded with 

 brown, with a narrow white zone just below the periphery. Spire 

 acuminate, acute, raither long; whorls /^, apical ones regular_, 

 the first minute, ihe third decussated with thin, rather distant, 

 longitudinal and spiral lira; ; the remaining whorls are rather 

 convex, closeh' nodulosly ribbed, spirally striated, and 

 furnished at irregular, distant intervals with rather prominent, 

 slightly reliexed, granular and tubercular varices. Last whorl 

 about half the entire length of the shell, som^Avhat inflated, con- 

 tracted below the periphery, and terminating in a somewhat 

 oblique, slightly recurved, rostrum- Aperture rather small, sub- 

 uvai, up \\iiitc, with the outer margin thin, sfightly reflexied, and 

 spotted with brown; inner margin thicken'=^d, with seven 

 prominent tooth-like projections, the hinder one being the most 

 prominent ; columellar lip irregularly plicated, with a rather thin, 

 expanded callus, and a prominent tubercle neat the posterior 

 extremity : anterior canal slightly reflexed, with a narrow open- 

 ing, widening at the extremity. The entrance to the aperture of 

 the shell on the columellar side is decussated and coloured 

 between the decussating ridges with square brown spots. 



Length, 35 ; breadth, iS millim. 



Hab. : — Scuttsburg Light-house, Natal N.W. by W., distant 8 

 miles. Depth, 92 fms. Bottom, sand and shells. 



This species, undoubtedly a Lotoriuni, has much the form of a 

 i\assaria. Superficially, the shell has something in common with 

 L. rancUoides, but it is manifestly distinct from that species, being 

 very much more closely tubercled, and having no posterior canal. 



BuLLiA (BucciNANOPs) ANXULATA, Lanik. (Plate 11. fig. 4). 

 Two specimens pr 'Ciired in Algo ^ Bav. \a 33" 50 ^., ong. 

 25°54'3o" E. Depth, 24 fms. Bottom, sand, shells, and rock. 



The shells of this species are well known and abundant ot J^ori 



