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unusual pleasure to name this shell after my aunt, Miss Jean Melvill, 

 who has always evinced mucii affectionate appreciation of my con- 

 chological studies. 



12. Latirus maximus Sowerhy. 



Latirtis maxivius G. B. Sowerby. The Conchologist, vol. ii., pp. 



139-140, fig. (1893). 



This fine addition to the genus, of which I have a large and impos- 

 ing specimen 'ex auctore,' is described as fusiform-turbinate, solid and 

 heavy, smooth, fuscous, or white filleted and banded with fuscous. 

 Spire shortly turreted, obtuse, suture irregularly impressed, whorls 

 obtuse-angled, provided with broad ribs ; body whorl sub-quadrate, 

 constricted below the middle, spirally sulcate towards the base, 

 shortly caudate, aperture ovate, white, finely Urate, columella with 

 white callus, lightly granulate, plaits inconspicuous. 



Long.: ^o; diarn.: 50 mm. 



Hab. : I. S. Thiago, Cape de Verde Isles (Eudel). 



The above is a free translation of the author's Latin description. 

 In my specimen there is not the slightest sign of columellar plication, 

 the granulosity at the base of the columella is interesting and dis- 

 tinctive. The great ponderosity doubtless gives the shell its chief 

 claim to be allied with the Lafiri, otherwise it might be considered 

 by some a Fusus, or even a Siphonalia. 



13. Latirus pagodseformis Melvill. 



Latirus ( Peristernia) pagodcBformis J. C. Melvill, Ann. and Mag. N. 

 Hist., ser. vii., vol. 4, p. 89, pi. i., fig. 8 (1899). 



An attenuate species, fusiform, fuscous-brown, often whitening on 

 the rib-centres, below spirally fusco-zonate ; ten whorled, the three 

 nuclear are pale brown, smooth, vitreous, the remainder swollen, 

 much impressed suturally, roundly-costate longitudinally, thickened, 

 ten in number round the body whorl, uniformly spirally filostriate ; 

 the interstices closely squamulate ; aperture ovate, within ashy-grey or 

 palest violet ; lip thin, simple, columella smooth, shining, obscurely 

 obliquely four-plaited, canal long, slightly recurved, tinged with 

 brown. 



Long.: 28; dlam.: 9-50 mm. 



ILab. : Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, adhering to the telegraph cable 

 at 20-25 fathoms, mud. Lat. 25° N., Long. 63° E. (F. W. Townsend). 



The above is a translation of the original Latin description. It is 

 not a species prone to vary ; and has been received now from two or 

 three contiguous dreduings. 



