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valde ina'assato ; labro margine varicoso, intus corrugato-plicato, 

 antice dente valido acuta instructo. 

 Long. 10 lines, lat. 4 lines. 

 Hab. China Sea {Coll. Tyler.). 



A very pretty species, with four transverse red- brown bands on 

 the last whorl, and with a conspicuous sharp tooth at the fore part 

 of the outer lip. 



3. TuDiCLA (Tudicula) spinosa, H. & A. Ad. 



T. testa turbinata, alba, solida ; spira brevi, depresso-conica, apice 

 papilloso ; anfractibus 5, planis, transversim liratis, liris noti' 

 nullis validioribus longitudinaliter oblique striatis, ad suturas un- 

 dulatis et spinulosis ; anfractu ultimo plicis longitudinalibus et ad 

 peripheriam squamulis spiniformibus instructo, transversim valde 

 lirato, lirulis intermediis ornato ; apertura ovata ; labio antice 

 plicis tribus validis instructo, canali recto valde producto ; labro 

 intus valde sulcato. 



Hab. Port Curtis {Coll. Cuming.). 



This species and T. armigera, A. Ad., have spiny varices and three 

 transverse plaits on the columella. They form a peculiar group near 

 Turbinella, for which we propose the name of Tudicula. 



4. Peristernia luculenta, H. & A. Ad. : : •■ -j ;^ » - o ; ■ <> /}■ '/h 



P. testa ovato-fusiformi, solida, umbilicata, alba, fascia lata trans- 

 versa pallide carnea in medio anfractnum ornata ; anfractibus 8, 

 postice excavatis, longitudinaliter plicatis, plicis convexis, distan- 

 tibus, postice acute nodulosis, suturis maculis rufescentibus obli- 

 quis linearibus ornatis, transversim liratis, liris elatiusculis dis- 

 tantibus filosis, antice sex validioribus valde punctatis, rufo-fuscis, 

 interstitiis regulariter transversim striatis; apertura acuminato- 

 ovata ; labio lavi, plica antica obliqua instructo, canali mediocri, 

 valde recurvo ; labro intus IcBvi, margine postice subangulato. 



Hab. Gulf of Mexico ( Co//. Cuming.). 



A very handsome species, white, with a broad flesh-coloured band 

 in the middle of the nodosely-plicate whorls, and with a series of 

 rufous-dotted spiral lirae at the fore part of the last whorl. 



5. Trophon spiratum, H. & A. Ad. 



T. testa ovato-fusiformi, tenuicula, cinerea, spira elata ; anfractibus 

 postice angulatis, varicibus tenuibus longitudinalibus permultis et 

 liris transversis validis subconfertis cancellatis ; apertura ovata, 

 in canalem mediocrem apertum vix recurvatum desinente ; labio 

 subcalloso ; labro tenui, intus sulcato, margine postice angulato. 



Long. 46 m., lat. 23 m. 



Hab. New Zealand {Coll. Cuming.). 



A cancellate species, with spirate whorls, and with the aperture 

 ending in a short open canal. 



6. Trophon coronatum, H. & A. Ad. 



T. testa ovato-fusiformi, tenui, cretacea, alba, spira mediocri; an- 



