1862.] M. o. A. L. morch's review of the vermetidje. 61 



Serpula costalis, Chenu, 111. t. 10. f. 7 (non absimilis). 



Hab. Ad ins. Philippin. {coll. Gaming). (Specimen descriptum 

 ex tat in collectione Hornbeckiana.) 



In Mr. Cuming's collection is a specimen without apertural tube, 

 attached or slightly burrowing in the very same kind of coral as Dr. 

 Hornbeck's specimen. A detached tube, bent like a fishing-hook, 

 about 60 m. long, and agreeing in sculpture and calibre with the 

 apertural tube above described, is also found in Mr. Cuming's col- 

 lection. 



Var. 6. TRiaUETRA. 



T. affixa, scaphitdidea, albescens, tenuiuscula, latere affixo piano 

 Candida ; anfr. ultimus triqueter, carinula plana mediana Can- 

 dida, utrinque linea castanea marginata ; mar ginibus, prcBser tint 

 externo, dilatatis ; latere interna liris 2 vel 3 albis et lineis 

 ferrugineis 2 vel 3 confluentibus ; sfrice et rugcB ina'ementi scepe 

 ferruginecB, varie flexce, in intei'sectionibus lirarum et carince 

 preecipueincrassatce ; anfr. ultimus rectus, pone aperturam in- 

 fiexus, contractus, cylindricus ; apertura cireidaris, intus Can- 

 dida ; anfr. primi intus castanei. 



Diam. aperturse 5^ m. ; diam. anfr. ult. fere 10 m. 



Hab. Ad ins. Philippin. Specimen in fragmento Tetraclitce af- 

 fixum extat in Mus. Cnming. 



Var. (. GRANIFERA. 



T. crassiuscula, alba vel flavescens ; anfr. incumbentes, ohliqui, de- 

 pressiusculi, aperturam versus ampliati, marginibus dilatatis ; 

 anfr. primi angusti, inferne lividi; lirce longitudinales confertce, 

 alternatim minores, scepe interrupts vel confuste ; rugce incre- 

 menti validce, sigmdidece, scepe undulatce, versus marginem incras- 

 satce et sape furcatce, gramdis validis ornatce ; faucibus macula 

 badia oblonga, margine (^astaneo ; columella Candida, nitida ; 

 parietes interne flavescentes (ut videtur hi specimine fracto). 



Diam. aperturae 6 m. ; anfr. ult. inferne 12 m. latus. 



Hab. Ad ins. Philippin.? (Mus. Cuming). 



This shell looks very different from the preceding variety ; but the 

 first whorls are exactly of the same shape and bluish colour (with 

 agglutinated minute pebbles) as in the type, but chiefly in var. y. 



Var. K. FULGURATA. 



T. spirorbiformis, latissime umbilicata ; anfr. ultimus ampliatus, 

 conveoous, peripheria dilatata ; lirce spirales confertissimcs, regu- 

 lares, subgranosce ; lira quarta vel quinta quceque expressior, 

 Iceviuscula ; rugce incrementi sigmdidece, sat approximatce, utrin- 

 que incrassatce ; anfr. ultitnus juxta aperturam contractus ; 

 apertura soluta, circularis ; anfr. primi varicibus parvis 2 vel 3 

 fornicatis erectis ; color pallide flavescens, prcesertim periphe- 

 riam versus, fascia mediana obsoleta lactescente ; lineis trans- 

 versis fulguratis, aurantiacis velfuscis, ajjproximatis. 



