1879.] MR. E. A. SMITH ON MOLLUSCA FROM JAPAN. 213 



76. CoRALLioPHii.A jEFFREYSii. (Plate XX. fig. 48.) 



Shell shortly fusiform, reddish brown, transverse ridges, especially 

 at the middle of the whorls, white : whorls probahly 8 ; the six 

 that are left acutely angular at the middle, spirally deeply sulcated, 

 leaving very prominerit ridges between the sulci, longitudinally 

 obsoletely plicate ; the lirse are six in number on the penultimate 

 whorl, the third from the base being the most prominent, forming 

 the angles, acutely produced on crossing the plic<e, and closely, 

 ratlier coarsely imbricately scaled ; last whorl encircled with sixteen 

 lirse, with the scales on some of the lower ones reraaikably thickened 

 and prominent, terminated with a large prominent scaled ridge. 

 Aperture bluish within, with the canal equal to the spire, internally 

 finely Urate ; canal short, very oblique and recurved ; columella 

 straightish at the upper part. 



Length 20 millims., diam. 10. 



Hab. Station 22. 



This species is much of the same type as Murex lamellosus of 

 Philippi. It differs from it, however, in colour, the deeper sulci, and 

 the greater angulation of the whorls. 



The location of it in the genus CoraUiophila is only provisional. 

 The sculpture is just of the character which frequently obtains in 

 many species of that genus ; but the brownish red colour is unusual. 



77' Purpura bronni, Dunker. 



Purpura bronni, Dunker, Moll. Jap. pi. 1. f. 23; Lischke, Jap. 

 M.-Conch. i. p. 53, pi. 5. f. 17. 



IJab. Station 4. Nagasaki and Decima (Lischlce and D/cr.) ; 

 Tatiyama (A. Adams). 



78. Purpura alveolata, Reeve. 



Purpura alveolata, Con. Icon. iii. fig. 60; Smith, Ann. & Mag. 

 Nat. Hist. 1875, vol. xv. 



P. clavigeru, Kiister, Con. Cab. pi. 31«. f. 1 ; Lischke, Jap. Meer.- 

 Conch. i. p. 54, pi. 5. f. 12-14, part ii. p. 39. 



Ilab. Station 4. Nagasaki (Lisch/ie). 



The habitat " Panama," originally assigned to this species, is 

 evidently incorrect. 



79. SisTRUM UNDATUM, Chemuitz. 



Murex undatus, Chem. Con. Cab. xi. p. 124, f. 1851-2. 



Murex margariticola, Broderip, P.Z.S. 1832, p. 177 ; Reeve, Con. 

 Icon. iii. f. 178. 



\ar. =Bicim(laJisceJlum, Reeve (not Murex fscellum, Chemnitz}, 

 Con. Icon. iii. f. 28. 



Hab. Station 4. 



This species is very widely distributed. It has been recorded 

 from Lord Hood's island and ISIew Caledonia, besides Japan ; and in 

 the British Museum there are specimens from Swan River, Port 

 Essington (Ju/ces), Andaman Islands {Captain Wilmer), Singapore 



