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striatis, apertura elongato-ovali, labio transversim corrugato ; 
labro rufo-marginato, intus sulcato; canali longiore, vix testam 
equante, subreflexo, ad sinistram curvato. 
Hab. Venezuela. Mus. Cuming. 
A very elegant /usus reminding one somewhat in markings, form, 
and sculpture of an elongated Sycotypus (or Ficula). 
4. Fusus auginus, A. Adams. F’. testa ovato-fusiformi, subven- 
tricosa, candida, spira mediocri; anfractibus octo, convewis, lon- 
gitudinaliter costato-plicatis, plicis, ad suturas, obsoletis, liris 
transversis crebris cinctis ; apertura elongato-ovali, labio levi; 
labro intus sulcato, canali mediocri recto, aperto. 
Hab. Ichaboe, West Africa. Mus. Cuming. 
This is a large, white, solid species with a moderately long beak, 
and with longitudinal, rounded, rib-like plicee which are obsolete at 
the sutures. 
5. Fusus assrmiuis, A. Adams. F’. testa elongato-fusiformi, ful- 
vicante, epidermide tenui, fusco induta; spira elongata, acuta; 
anfractibus decem, rotundatis, longitudinaliter plicato-costatis, 
costis latis, medio subnodulosis, transversim valde liratis, liris 
equalibus, subdistantibus ; apertura parva, ovali, labio producto, 
intus transversim rugoso ; labro margine crenulato, intus sulcato ; 
canali longiore, fere clauso, recto. 
Hab. China Seas. Mus. Cuming. 
Somewhat resembling in form and sculpture the F. turricula, 
Kiener, but the outline of the whorls is nodosely ungulated. 
6. Fusus nopicrnctus, A. Adams. FF. testa elongato-fusiformi, 
dilute rufa, rufo-ferrugineo variegata ; spira elongata, acuta; 
anfractibus convexis, transversim liratis, longitudinaliter nodoso- 
plicatis, plicis in medio anfractuum tuberculatis productis ; aper- 
tura ovali, labio transversim corrugato ; labro intus sulcato, canali 
mediocri, recto, aperto. 
Hab. Australia. Mus. Cuming, 
In this species the whorls are encircled with a series of conspicuous, 
rib-like nodules, and the shell is variegated with rusty-brown, of which 
there is a distinct transverse band on the last whorl. 
7. AMpHrIpeRAsS (OvuLUM) TRaILii, A. Adams. A. testa elon- 
gata, in medio angulata, carnea, albo marginata, lineis trans- 
versis, impressis, obsoletis, cincta ; apertura angusta, canalibus 
brevibus, valde emarginatis ; labio intus levi, sulco longitudinali 
instructo, postice tumido ; labro in medio recto, transversim sul- 
cato, extus albi-varicoso. 
Hab. Malacca (Dr. Traill). Mus. Cuming. 
This is an elongated species, somewhat angulated on the back, of 
a pale flesh-tint in some varieties, and of a deeper pink in others, 
and with the varix of the outer less white. In form it resembles, 
most closely, O. formosum, Sow., but that species is crossed with 
punctate, spiral lines. 
