54 MESSRS. ADAMS AND ANGAS ON TWO NEW SHELLS. [Jan. 10, 
LATIRUS VIOLACEUS, Reeve. 
To the description we only add that the iridescent colours differ 
from those of the two preceding species in being of delicate golden 
and silvery shades of purple and green. 
To the above we add the following new species :— 
LATIRUS GIBBUS. 
L. t. fusiformi, solida, levi; spira acuminata, gracili ; longitu- 
dinaliter nodoso-costata, costis quinque, magnis, obliquis, com- 
pressis, valde elevatis ; transversim costata, costis tribus, ro- 
tundatis, indistinctis et irregularibus ; labro tenui, simplict ; 
costis albidis, interstitiis purpureo-violaceis iridescentibus, 
apertura violacea. 
Long. 13, diam. 8 mill. 
The iridescence appears but faintly in this species. 
9, Descriptions or Two New Species or SHELLS IN THE CoL- 
LECTION oF GrorGE Frencn AnGas. By Henry ApAms, 
F.L.S., ano G. F. Ancas, Corr. Mem. Z. 8. 
(Plate IT.) 
Genus Susuxina, Beck. 
Subgenus Ca@xiaxis, nob. 
Testa umbilicata ; spira stiperne attenuata. 
Suputina (Ca@xrAxts) LAYARDI, nob. (PI. I. fig. 1.) 
S.t. umbilicata, cylindraceo-turrita, tenuis, oblique confertim costulato- 
striata, candida; spira superne sensim attenuata, apice obtuso ; 
anfr. 19, convexiusculi, ultimus basi rotundatus ; apertura subver- 
ticalis, ovato-lunaris ; perist. simplex, rectum, marginibus callo 
tenui junctis, columellari reflexo. 
Long. 28, diam. 7 mill., ap. 4 mill. longa. 
Hab. Cape of Good Hope (Brit. Mus. and Coll. Angas). 
The examples of this species in the British Museum were collected 
during the voyage of H.MS. ‘Herald,’ and were received, with 
several other shells, as having been obtained at the Cape. The 
specimen in the collection of Mr, Angas was sent to him from the 
Cape, with the locality ‘« East London, Buffalo Mouth ”’ attached to it. 
TRUNCATELLA (TAHEITIA) CLATHRATA, nob. (PI. II. fig. 2.) 
T. t. elongata, subcylindrica, tenui, decollata, pallido-fulva, clathris 
acutis irregularibus subdistantibus instructa; anfr. superst. 7, 
convexiusculi, ultimus penultimo sejunctus; apertura subovalis ; 
perist. continuum, undique reflecum, margine dextro expanso. 
Long. 9, diam, 3 mill., ap. diam. 3 mill. 
Hab. Solomon Islands (Coll. Angas). 
