no JOURNAL OF CONCKOLOGY, VOL. lO, NO. 4, OCTOBER, igot. 



15. Peristernia leucothea Melvill. 



Peristernia leucothea Melvill. Mem. Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc, 



4th sen, vol. iv., p. 399, pi. ii., fig. 15, 1891. 

 Latirus {Peristernia) leucothea Sowerby, Marine Shells of South 



Africa, p. 17, 1892. 

 Euthria ebiirnea Sowerby, Proc. Malac. Soc, vol. iv., p. i, pi. i., fig. 2, 



1900. 



Hah., Port Natal (Melvill) ; Umkoniaas and Isipingo, Natal (H. 

 Burnup) ; Pondoland (Sowerby). 



A comparison of the figures referred to would not lead one to the 

 conclusion that the Euthria eburnea of Sowerby was identical with the 

 present species. Mr. Sowerliy's type, recently acquired by the 

 Museum, is in an exceedingly worn condition and only exhibits traces 

 between the costte of the thread-like lines with which this species is 

 sculptured. I'he aperture also is so worn that both the lirae within 

 the outer lip and the somewhat obscure columellar plications are only 

 just traceable. 



There are two distinct forms of this species, the one entirely white, 

 the other being more or less stained with purple-brown in the depres- 

 sions between the ribs, with a yellowish band below the suture and a 

 more distinct brownish or yellowish one around the middle of the 

 body-whorl, bordered below with a conspicuous white thread. The 

 aperture is purplish or purplish-brown within. The white thread 

 referred to is also quite noticeable on the typical white form. The 

 variety is raiher like P. pulchella Reeve in colour, but differs in size 

 and form. 



16. Melapium elatum Schubert and Wagner. 



Pjrula elala Schub. and Wag., Conchyl. Cab., vol. xii.. pp. 92 and 94, 



pi. ccxxvi., figs. 4012-13, 1829. 

 Melapium elatum, Smith, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1889, vol. iii., p. 269. 



Hab., from the stomach of a fish caught in 40 fathoms, about ten 

 miles from Durban (Quekett). 



It is interesting to have a definite locality for this species, hitherto 

 known only from " Indian Seas." 



17. Euthria queketti. (PI. I., fig. i). 



Testa fusiformis, fusco-olivacea, plicis nodosis albii ornata ; spira elon- 

 gata, turrita ; anfractus 8-|, duo superiores ,(;lobosi, Iceves, pallidi, 

 cceteri supra concavi, in medio nodose plicati, infra rectiusculi et leviter 

 contracti, spiraliter striati vet lirati, lineis incrementi tenuibus decus- 

 sati ; anfr. ultimus ad angJiluin fortiter nodosus, antice atteniiatus, 

 rostratus (rostro recu7vo, sinistrorsum verso), supra medium trans- 

 versim haud profunde sulcatus ; apertura ovalis, alba, antice in 

 canalem augustuni producta ; labrum intus tenuiter liratum ; cohim- 



