l66 tOURNAL OF CONCltOLOGV, VOL. I3, NO. 6, APKlL, I9II. 



2. Latirus alboapicatus .Smith. 



Latirus alboapicata E. A. vSmitli, Journ. of Condi. ^ vol. x., p. 250, 

 pi. iv., f. 5, 1902. 

 ,, alboapicatus E. A. Smith, Proc. Malac. Soc. London, vol. v., 



P- 3695 1903- 



The following is a free English translation of the author's Latin 

 description : — Shell fusiform, rufescent, white towards the apex, and 

 below the centre of the body whorl girt with a pale band ; the spire 

 is elongate, rather turreted, whorls yi, the two nuclear big, smooth 

 and rounded, the third possessing about twelve longitudinal ribs, the 

 remainder lightly concave above, sloping, below nodulously ribbed, 

 spirally lirate ; the body whorl is girt with about eight ribs, becoming 

 evanescent towards the base ; the mouth is oval, produced anteriorly 

 into an oblique recurved canal, rufescent within. Columella with a 

 thickened callus, and furnished with a small tubercle close to the lip. 



Long.: 28; diani.: 12. 



Hab. : Durban. 



The author points out the contrast given in the large white apex 

 compared with the rufous lower whorls of the species. The type, 

 presumably unique, is said to be in the possession of Mr, Anderson. 

 I have an unnamed shell in my collection which may possibly be a 

 form of this, but I am not certain about it at present. 



3. Latirus andamanicus Smith. 



Latirus andamanicus E. A. Smith, Ann. &> Alag., N. Mis/., ser. vi., 

 vol. 14, p. 164, pi. iii., f. 9 (1894), 



This is a fusiform species, whitish, covered with pale olive epider- 

 mis, eleven whorled, three being nuclear, white, smooth, polished, 

 the remainder rather convex, upper whorls longitudinally ribbed, the 

 ribs becoming more or less obsolete on the two lowest whorls, all 

 succinct with three or four conspicuous lirations, with filiform spiral 

 stride intermingling. Aperture white, columella arcuate, having two 

 obscure oblique plaits, canal nearly straight, narrow and elongate. 



Long.: 50; /a/..- diam. t2 mm. 



LLab.: Two specimens^ dredged by s.s. "Investigator," off Port 

 Blair, Andaman Isles, m 112 fathoms. 



Not seemingly dissimilar in some respects from L. aiabicus Melv., 

 but differing in the character of the spiral lirte, and the evanescence 

 of the costEe on the penultimate and body whorls. The columella of 

 aiabicus is sometimes 3-4 plicate, though the plicas are obscure. 



I One of Lhe specimens is in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), the olhei- in the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta (E, A. Smith). 



