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6. Pisanra FiLaris, A. Adams. PP. testa ovato-acuminata, 
testacea, spira producta, superne subcylindracea, apice obtusa ; 
anfractibus septem, convewiusculis, longitudinaliter substriatis, 
transversim liratis ; apertura ovali, columella ineurva, antice 
uniplicata, oblique truncata, labro extus varicoso, intus sulcato, 
margine acuto. 
Hab. China. (Mus. Cuming.) 
A very simple and elegant species, with a subcylindrical apex, and 
possessing many of the characters of Metula and Truncaria. 
7. ComineLtaA MAuURA, A. Adams. OC. festa ovato-fusiformi, 
nigro-fusca, albo lineata ; anfractibus planiusculis, transversim 
valde sulcatis, sulcis distantibus equalibus ; apertura ovali, 
columella simplice, labro intus sulcato. 
Hab. Darnley’s Island, Capt. Ince. (Mus. Cuming.) 
This is a blackish-brown shell, in some specimens lineated with 
white ; the whorls are constricted just below the sutures, and the 
upper ones are longitudinally plicate and somewhat eroded. 
8. ComINELLA QuoyaANna, A. Adams. C. testa fusiformi, spira 
acuminata, albida, rufo-fusco maculata ; anfractibus octo, longi- 
tudinaliter oblique plicatis, plicis superne subnodulosis, trans- 
versim sulcatis; apertura ovali, columella antice uniplicata, 
labro intus lirato. 
Hab. New Zealand. (Mus. Cuming.) 
This shell is possibly a variety of the Buccinum costatum, Quoy 
and Gaimard, which appears to be a very variable species; it has, 
however, well-marked characters of its own. 
9. PerIsTERNIA sTIGMATARIA, A. Adams. P. testa ovato-fusi- 
formi, alba, maculis nigro-fuscis ornata, transversim lirata, 
longitudinaliter plicata, plicis rotundis, spira acuminata, apice 
atro-purpurea ; anfractibus convexiusculis, ad suturas maculis 
nigro-fuscis cinctis, ultimo maculis castaneis cincto, antice nigro- 
fusco tincto ; apertura ovali, columella antice plicis quatuor in- 
structa, canali brevi, labro intus lirato. 
Hab. Sandwich Islands, Dr. Newcomb. (Mus. Cuming.) 
A handsome species, with a zone of black-brown spots at the 
sutures, and another series in the middle of the last whorl ; the beak 
stained with brown-black. 
10. PeERIsTERNIA NoDULOSA, A. Adams. P. testa ovato-fusi- 
formi, umbilicata, albicante, cerina, subglabra, transversim ob- 
solete sulcata, longitudinaliter nodoso-plicata, spira pyramidali, 
ad suturas serie nodulorum cincta; anfractu ultimo in medio 
obtuse angulato; apertura ovali, columella antice plicis obso- 
letis instructa, labro intus valde lirato, margine antice angu- 
lato, canali brevi, recurvo. 
Hab. Australia. (Mus. Cuming.) 
A peculiar whitish waxy-looking shell, with smooth nodulous whorls. 
