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striatis, apertura elongato-ovali, labio transversim corrugato ; 



labro rufo-marginato, intus sulcato ; canali longiore, vix testam 



cequante, subreflexo, ad sinistram curvato. 

 Hab. Venezuela. Mus. Cuming. 



A very elegant Fusus reminding one somewhat in markings, form, 

 and sculpture of an elongated Sycotypus (or Ficula) . 



4. Fusus albinus, A. Adams. F. testa ovato-fusiformi, subven- 

 tricosa, Candida, spira mediocri ; anfractibus octo, convexis, lon- 

 gitudinaliter costato-plicatis, plicis, ad suturas, obsoletis, liris 

 transversis crebris cinctis ; apertura elongato-ovali, labio Icevi ; 

 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 plicae which are obsolete at 

 the sutures. 



5. Fusus assimilis, A. Adams. F. testa elongato-fusiformi, ful- 

 vicante, epidermide tenui, fusco induta ; spira elongata, acuta ; 

 anfractibus decern, rotundatis, longiludinaliter plicato-costatis, 

 costis latis, medio subnodulosis, transversim valde liratis, liris 

 cequalibus, subdistantibus ; apertura parva, ovali, labio producto, 

 intus transversim rugoso ; labro margine crenulato, intus sulcato ; 

 canali longiore, fere clauso, recto. 



Hab. China Seas. Mus. Cuming. 



Somewbat resembling in form and sculpture the F. turricula, 

 Kiener, but the outline, of the whorls is nodosely ungulated. 



6. Fusus nodicinctus, A. Adams. F. 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. Amphiperas (Ovulum) traillii, 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 leevi, 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. 



