368 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



MARINE SHELLS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 

 By G. B. SOWERBY, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



(Read before the Conchological Society, November 3rd, 1893). 



The following species haYe been brought to my notice 

 since the publication of my work with the aboYC title in 1892. 



The references are not always to original descriptions, but 

 to figures in well-known works. 

 Murex ramosus Linn. — Sow., 'Thes. Conch.,' yoI. iv., pi. 



387, fig. 69. Natal. 

 Tritonidea subrubiginosa. — Smith, 'Proc. Zool. Soc.,' 



1879, P- 200, pi. 20, fig. 40. Natal (Burnup). 

 Pleurotoma cingulifera Lamk. — RecYe, 'Conch. Icon.,' 



Yol. i., Pleurotoma^ fig- i- A young shell from Knysna. 

 Mangilia cerea (?) Carpenter. — A small shell bearing a very 



close resemblance to this species has been submitted to me 



by Mr. Langley Kitching, from near Cape Town. 

 Triton gemmatus. — Reeve, 'Conch, Icon.,' vol. ii., Triton, 



pi. 15, fig. 60. Natal. 

 Triton tuberosus Lamk.^ — Reeve, 'Conch. Icon.,' vol. ii., 



Triton^ pi. i, fig. i. Natal. 

 Triton gallinago. — Reeve, 'Conch. Icon.,' vol. ii., Triton.^ 



pi. 2, fig. 3. Natal. 

 Triton moni lifer. — Adams & Reeve, 'Voyage, Sainarangj' 



pi. 10, fig. 18. Natal. 

 Triton (Persona) anus Lamk. — Reeve, 'Conch. Icon.,' vol. 



ii., Triton, \)\. 12, fig. 44. Natal. 

 Nassa algida. — Reeve, 'Conch. Icon.,' vol. viii., Nassa, pi. 



22, fig. 145. Natal. 

 Buliia pustulosa Sowerby, n. sp. 



Testa acuminata, solidiiiscula, luteo-albida ; spira acute tunita, 



ad apiceni obtusiuscula ; anfractiis 6 prinii (2) /cBves, sequcntes 



granulati, spiraliter sulcati, longitudinaliter plicati, sutura 



J.C., vii., Apr. 1894. 



