372 SOWERBY : MARINE SHELLS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



A narrow little white shell with a brown spiral line 

 about the middle of the whorls. From the form of the 

 mouth and columella it appears to be an Ach's, though in 

 sculpture it is more like a Tnrhonilla. 

 Solarium perspectivum Linn. — Sowb., 'Thes. Conch.,' vol. 

 iii., pi. 253, fig. 36. Natal. A small specimen. 



Solarium (Philippia) hybridum Linn. — 'Thes. Conch.,' 

 vol. iii., pi. 253, fig. 42. St. John's (Captain Turton). 



Solarium dorsuosum Hinds. — Sowb., 'Thes. Conch.,' vol. 

 iii., pi. 254, figs. 73-74. Natal. St. John's (Captain Tur- 

 ton). This species is found in the Persian Gulf and in 

 Japan. 



Cerithium crassilabrum Krauss. — Sud., 'Afr. Moll.,'pl. vi., 

 fig. 10. Natal. 



Pyrazus palustris Brug. — Sowb., 'Thes. Conch.,' vol. ii., pi. 

 185, fig. 261. Natal. 



Turbo (Pachypoma) taylorianus Smith, Proc Zool. 

 Soc.,' 1880, pi. 48, fig. 9, p. 483. Port Elizabeth. 



Turbo (CoUonia) pillula Dunker. — Sowb., 'Thes. Conch.,' 

 vol. v., pi. 505, fig. 160. St. John's (Captain Turton). 



Gibbula fucata Gould, 'Proc Post. Soc. N. H-.,' p. 8, p. 20. 

 Simon's Bay (Captain Turton). A prettily-marked rather 

 compressed variety was found by Mr. Langley Kitching, 

 at Green Point, near Cape Town. 



Gibbula incincta Sowerby, n. sp. 



Testa conica, ohtushiscula, iimbilicata, aurafitio-fusca, et viri- 

 descente, fasciis angtistis albidis^ maculis angulatis fuscis 

 articulatis pida ; anfradus 5 convexo dedives, fere leaves, 

 oblique sub-obsolete S7ilcati, lira rotundata marginati ; basis 

 leviter cojivexa, oblique plicata, spiral iter subtilissitne striata; 

 umbilicus late et profunde excavatus, albus, carina obtusius- 

 cula marginatus ; apertura oblique sub-quadrata ; columella 

 tenuis, obliqua, levissinie re/Iexa ; peristoma simplex. 



Alt. 6, maj. lat. 6 millim. 

 Hab. Port Elizabeth. 



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



