SMITH : SOUTH AFRICAN MARINE SHELLS, WITH NEW SPECIES. II3 



superiores 1-2 cofivexi, Jeeves, cceteri turritl, cojivexiusadi, lougi- 

 tudinaliter costati et spiraliter Urati granose caiicellati {costis in anfr. 

 penult. 14, lirisque 7-8), ultimus infra medium patdo contractus, 

 costis inferne desinentibus, antice oblique liratus, liris rufo punctatis ; 

 labrum leviter i}icrassatum, superne haud profunde sinuatu?n, intus 

 tiiberculis paucis armatum ; columella supra leviter cia-vata, infra 

 obliqua, callo tenui induta ; canalis antej'ior obliquus, recurv7is. 

 Longit. 4^ mm., diam. x\. Apertura 2 longa. 

 Bab., Natal (H. Burnup). 



The colour of this species is very characteristic. The ground 

 colour is a transparent yellowish waxy tint. This is varied with three 

 interrupted dark reddish or brownish lines round the middle of the 

 upper whorls, and one or two opaque white granules upon alternate 

 costas at the same part of the whorls. The body-whorl also has the 

 oblique lirse round the lower extremity dotted with red interrupted 

 lines. This style of coloration recalls that of Columbella mo7dlifera 

 Sowerby from the Bahamas, etc. {=^ Pleiirotoma fuscolineata C. B. 

 Adams=/y. scalpta Reeve). The radula according to Prof. H. M. 

 Gwatkin is columbelloid. 



22. Murex fallax. (PI. I., fig. 9). 



Testa abbreviaio-clavceformis, solida, sordide albida, zonis itderruptis 

 fuscis picta ; spira brevis, gradata ; anfractus normales 6, supra 

 planiusculi, declives, i)i medio angulati, 7iodulis acutis validis com- 

 pressis ad angulum instrucfi, varicibus tribus muniti, tdtimus antice 

 rostratus, circa medium seriebus tribus nodulorum ornatus ; inf-a 

 spinis validis tribus armatus ; rostrum fere rectum, fusco tinctum, 

 liris paucis obliquis instructum ; apertura oblique ovata, alba ; peri- 

 stoma fere continuum, margine externa anguste reflexo, subtuber- 

 cidato, intus Icevi, columellari dilatato, reflexo ; canalis anterior fe^'e 

 clausus. Longit. 78 mm., diam. 41. Apertura 17 longa, 12 lata. 

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

 from Durban (Quekett). 



In general form allied to M. haustellum Linn, and AI. chiysostoma 

 Gray. It differs from the former in colour and sculpture and in hav- 

 ing three conspicuous spines upon the upper part of the rostrum. In 

 this respect it somewhat resembles chrysostoma, from which it may at 

 once be separated by the smaller size of the aperture, the smoothness 

 of the labrum within, and the absence of transverse lira upon the 

 columellar callus. This species has generally three tubercles at the 

 angle of the whorls between the varices, but sometimes only two. 



23. Sistrum squamosum Pease var. 



Sistrum squamosum Pease, Amer. Journ. Conch., vol. iii., p. 277, 

 pi. xxiii., fig. 14, 1868. 



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