508 R. Bullen Newton— Shells from Raised Beaches, Red Sea. 



Family STROMBIDiE. 



Strombus fasciatus, Born. (PI. XX, Fig. 3.) 

 Stromhm fasciatus, Born: Testacea Mus. Cassarei Vinclobonensis, 1780, p. 278 

 (= Uneatns, Lam.). 

 Distribution. — Red Sea, Gulf of Akaba, and beacb deposits of 

 the Eed Sea (Issel) ; Eed Sea to Philippines (Tryon). Coll. Geol. 

 Surv. Egypt : Recent beach between Jebel Mellaha and Jebel Zeit 

 (No. 2,159, Box No. 10/, and Nos. 2,162-2,167, Box No. 21/) ; east 

 of Gharib (Nos. 2,227-2,254, Box No. 17^) ; south of Gharib light- 

 house (Nos. 2,198-2,216, Box No. 53/) ; Gemsah, 50 foot beach 

 (Nos. 2,031-2,057, Box No. 58/) ; east of Jebel Esh (Nos. 2,172- 

 2,190, Box No. 64/) ; camp north of Wadi Gueh, west of Kosseir, 

 80 feet above sea (Nos. 1,655-1,657, Box No. 81/) ; Ras Gharib 

 and Jebel Zeit (Barron) ; raised beach 80 feet above sea. Camp 6, 

 Wadi Gueh (No. 1,571, Box No, 38/b) ; raised beach, Camp 6, Wadi 

 Gueh (No. 1,572, Box No. 52/c, and Nos. 1,574, etc., Box No. 62/c). 



Strombus floridus, Lamarck. 



Strombus Jloridus, Lamarck: Hist. Nat. Anim. sans Vert., vol. vii (1822), p. 211. 

 Distribution. — Beach deposits near Kosseir (Fraas) ; Kosseir 

 and Akaba Gulf (Issel) ; Zanzibar, Japan, Australia to Viti Islands 

 (Tryon) ; Eed Sea, Indian Ocean, Philippines (E. A. Smith). Coll. 

 Geol. Surv. Egypt : raised beach 80 feet above sea. Camp 6, Wadi 

 Gueh (No. 1,871, Box No. 387c) ; raised beach, Camp 6, Wadi Gueh 

 (Nos. 1,574, etc.. Box No. 62fc). 



Strombus fusiformis, G. B. Sowerby. 

 Slromhcs fusiformis, G. B. Sowerby : Thesaurus Conchyliorum, vol. i (1847), pi. ix, 

 figs. 91, 92. 



Distribution. — Gulf of Akaba and beacli deposits of the Eed 

 Sea (Issel) ; Aden, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, North Australia (E. A. 

 Smith). Coll. Geol. Surv. Egypt: Gemsab, 50 foot beach (Nos. 

 2,031-2,057, Box No. 58/) ; Ras Gharib and Jebel Zeit (Barron). 



Strombus tricornis, Lamarck. 



Strombus tricornis, Lamarck : Hist. Nat. Anim. sans Vert., vol. vii (1822), p. 201. 

 Distribution. — Red Sea, Kosseir, East Indies, etc. (Issel) ; Red 

 Sea, Bourbon, Seychelles, Philippines (E. A. Smith). Coll. Geol. 

 Surv. Egypt: raised beach 80 feet above sea at Wadi Gueh, 

 Camp 5 (No. 1,607, Box No. 84/). A large cast in sandstone of 

 most probably this species from raised beach north of Kosseir (No. 

 2,137, Box No. 30/) ; anotlier cast which may have belonged to this 

 species or to S. Bonelli, Brongniart, from raised beach 380 feet 

 above sea near Camp 7, Wadi Shigeleh (No. 1,613, Box No. (J5k). 



Canarium dentatum, Linn^us, var. erythrynum, Chemnitz. 



Strombus dentatus, Linnajus : Systema Naturae, 10th ed. (1758), p. 745. 

 Strombus erythrynum, Chemnitz: Conchylien-Cabinet, vol. xi (1795), p. 146, 

 pi. excv, figs. 1,874, 1,875. 



Distribution.— Red Sea to Australia (Tryon) ; Red Sea, Indian 

 Ocean, etc. (E. A. Smith). Coll. Geol. Surv. Egypt: east of 

 Gharib (Nos. 2,227-2,254, Box No. 17/) ; raised beach 20 feet 



