new Gastropoda from the Persian Gulf, &c. 307 
tecta, albida, infra, juxta suturas et infra medium anfractus 
ultimi castaneo-zonata; anfractibus 8-9, quorum apicales 34 
pellucidi, levissimi, czteris ventricosis, multum apud suturas 
impressis, longitudinaliter costatis, costis crassis, numerosis 
(ultimo anfractu apud 10), omnino spiraliter arctissime liratis ; 
apertura rotundo-ovata, alba, labro arcuato, crassiusculo, intus 
albo, multicrenulato; columella recta, operculo corneo, tenui, 
nucleo apicali, canali brevi, paullum recurvo. 
Long. 31, lat. 18 mm. 
flab. Gulf of Oman and Mekran Coast, especially between 
Gwadfr and Jask, from 25-30 fathoms, “usually occurring 
with Murex malabaricus”’ (F, W. 'T.). 
Also lat. 25° 20' N., long. 58° 50! E., at 90 fathoms, in 
company with Lattrus pagodeformis, Melv., June 1903. 
This beautiful species was first pointed out to us as distinct 
by Mr.G. B. Sowerby. It is near the old Buccinum hgneum, 
Reeve, =Tritonidea Cecillei, Phil. It differs in being of 
stouter build, with the whorls not so scalate. There is like- 
wise an affinity with 7. erythrostoma, Reeve, but the lip is 
never coloured in the slightest degree. 
Metula daphnelloides, sp.n. (Pl. XXII. fig. 9.) 
M. testa eleganter fusiformi, albida, delicata, mitrali; anfractibus 9, 
quorum 43 apicales albo-vitrei, leves, spiraliter circumcarinati, 
supernis una, inferis duabus carinis preeditis, ceteris apud suturas 
gradatulis, undique longitudinaliter pulcherrime et arcte costatis 
(ultimi anfractus ad 46), costis rectis, levissimis, nitentibus, 
interstitiis spiraliter liratis, infra, juxta suturas, plica spirali 
conspicua sepe preedita, superficie hic illic obscure stramineo 
maculata et depicta, ultimo anfractu (11 mm. in longitudine) 
gracili, paullum producto; apertura anguste oblonga, intus alba, 
nitida, labro paullulum effuso, crassiusculo, intus multidenticu- 
lato ; columella incrassata, pernitida, simplici, basi lata. 
Long. 17, lat. 5°50 mm. 
Hab. Gulf of Oman, lat. 24° 58’ N., long. 56° 54! E., 
156 fathoms. 
Two species of the genus occurred together, the above 
being mitriform, elegantly spindle-shaped, and white; the 
other is the Buccinum metula, Hinds, = Metula Hindsii, Adams 
and Reeve, which should properly, we consider, be known by 
the duplicated name of Metula metula (Hinds). ‘This last is 
larger, with coarser ribs and spiral liration, and does not 
possess the obscure straw maculations of the M. daphnelloides. 
The apical whorls are well worth examination. Four or 
five in number, out of a total of nine in all, they are glassy 
vitreous white, the extreme apex mamillate, small, the next 
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