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Maximum dimensions: Height, 80 mm.; width, 71 mm.; 

 depth or diameter, 21 mm. 

 Hab. : New Caledonia. 



Three specimens have been examined by me; the largest, taken as 

 type, is somewhat more worn than the two smaller specimens, one of 

 which is lighter and the other darker in colour than the type. 



Its compressed form and short spines separate it from multisetosiis. 



51. — S. igneus Fulton, n.sp. 



Shell pectiniform, moderately solid, upper valve fiery-red with 

 white umboncs and some specks of white at a line of growth 

 towards the middle ; ornamented with about twenty-six longitu- 

 dinal ridges, bearing rather short red spines ; lower valve of a 

 lighter red; ligamental area moderately produced; interior white 

 with margins bordered with red. 



Maximum dimensions : Height, 45 mm. : width, 42 mm. ; 

 diameter or depth, 23 mm, 

 Hab. ? 



A beautiful little shell of the multimuricaUts group. 

 52. — S. layardi ^Q&wQ. Conch. Icon., pi. 18, fig. 66. 

 Hab. : Ceylon. 



The type specimen is not so dark in colour as represented in the 

 Iconica. 



53. — S. pesasininus Bolten. Museum Boltenianum, 1798, p. 194. 

 Conch. Cab., vii., pi. 46, figs. 472, 473. 



{^^digitatus Perry. Perry's Conch., 181 1, pi. 59, no. 3). 

 (=r.cosiatus Lamk. Anim. Sans Vert., vi., p. 189). 

 (^^multilatnellatus\a^mk. Anim. Sans Vert., vi., p. 189). 

 {^—=petroselinum Sowb. Thes. Conch., figs. 6, 10 & 49). 

 {=^foliaceus Reeve. Conch. Icon., fig. 25). 

 Hab. : Philippine Islands (Cuming). Mauritius (Sow.). 

 Chenu in his lUust. Conchyl. figures quite a different species as 

 inultilamellatus Lamk., but the figures referred to by Lamarck are 

 certainly pesasininus Bolt. 



Group K. 

 54. — S. tenellus Reeve. Conch. Icon., pi. 18, fig. 67. 



Hab. : Australia. 



There are two specimens in the British Museum collection from 

 Adelaide much larger than the type, with less numerous but longer 

 spines. There are also short-spined specimens said to be from 

 Tasmania. 



