1861.] M. O. A. L. MORCh's REVIEW OF THE VERMETID^. 167 



T. adulta elongata, tubulosa, recta aut subjlexuosa, e partihus 

 lateralibus septorum concreta, inde concentrice lameUosa et 

 stratificata, crassa, extus transversim striata et sxibannulatim 

 rugosa et aspera, scepius subtuberculosa et incequalis, intus 

 Icevissima, nitida {testa junior ad basin infimam attenuata et 

 spiraliter torta) ; septa transversa, remota, imperforata, ienuis- 

 sima, tuhtdoso-hemisphcerica (ciqitdiformia) se invicem amplec- 

 tentia {superiora inferioribus incutnbentia) ; j)artes laterales 

 in testam concrete ; basis septorum libere prominula, clausa, 

 hemisphcBrica, papyraceo-tenuissima, fragilis, rarius hernisphce- 

 rico-conica et subobliqua ; habitus orthoceratitdides, sed sipho 

 nullus (Junghuhn). 

 Diam. testae 8-14 lin. , eras, testae f-2 lin. ; septte inteniEe diam. 

 6-7 lin. 



According to the inhabitants this shell is only found in Java, at 

 Karangitam, which forms a part of the broad reefs at the mouth of 

 the small river Kalapatjondong, in the district Djampong, on the south 

 coast of Java. The tubes, which at flood-tide are covered with 8 feet 

 of water, stand upright in slightly bent positions, like organ-pipes, so 

 closely together on the rock which they form, that it is only by 

 touching the many small holes of the apertures that their presence is 

 recognized. To this variety belongs very hkely the shell brought 

 from Sumatra by Capt. Griffiths, and described by Home, Pliil. 

 Transact. 1806, pp. 2/6 & 287 (Woodward, in Proceed. 1857, p. 245). 



Vermetus gigas, Owen, Mag. of Nat. Hist. 1838, Aug., p. 408, 

 f. 20. & ' r . 



Vermetus gigas, A. & G., Chenu, III. pi. 5. f. 6. 



Siphonium gigas, Chenu, Man. p. 320. f. 2304 (copy). 



Serpula gigantea *, or great Oriental Worm-shell with its oper- 

 culum : a young specimen (Seba, t. 94), Port. Cat. 1786, p. 6, no. 97. 



The figures of Owen and Chenu seem to unite Junghuhn's shell 

 with the following form, which is the typical : — 



Var. y. SCANDENS. 



T. contorta, inter ramos Heteroporae scandens ; anfr. teretiusculi 

 superne et in/erne subplanati, rugis transversis latis obsoletis 

 arcuatis, varicibus crassis prcBcipitibus 1-2 ; strice incrementi 

 membranacets, confertcB, scejie ferruginece ; upertura circularis, 

 intus Candida, peritrema intus carneum. 



Diam. 21 m. 



Operculum pellucidum castaneum ; superne profunde concavum, 

 area centrali opaca, peripheria elevata ; limbo leevissimo, mar- 

 ffine angustofiavo, uti cote attenuato; inferne elevato-cnnvexum ; 

 impressio muscularis rotundata, prominula, concentrice inter- 

 rupte rugulosa ; limbus planissimus, latus, nitidus, margine 

 interna canali piano angusto terminato. 



Diam. 18-^ m., lat. hmbi 5 m., alt. operc. circiter 7 m. 



* The middle figure on pi. 97 of Seba is very likely meant, which perhaps is a 

 Cuphus. The specimen was obtained by Sykes for 9*. at the auction. 



