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The species now under consideration, is, without doubt, 

 the same as the above author's figure, 197^, which resembles 

 very nearly the South Sea shells. The color and markings 

 are the same as S. paupercula, but maybe distinguished from 

 that species by its more abbreviate form, more contracted 

 aperture, outer lip more heavily calloused in the inner 

 margin, and the conspicuous spiral grooves. The latter are 

 generally obsolete on the middle of the body whorl, and are 

 frequently punctured. 1 he interspaces between the grooves 

 are either convex or convexly-angulate. Many examples 

 have the body whorl more or less distinctly fluted, a character 

 never observed in paiipercida, with which it is by some 

 authors united. It is, in my opinion, as closely connected 

 with litterata as with the above species. 



Dr. Gould, in his " Expedition," cites one of the 

 2^/ Paf iiotu Islands as its habitat, where I very much doubt its 



being found. 

 80. Strigatella zebra sp. nov. 



Shell ovate, solid, smooth, spire short, retuse, base much 

 contracted, obliquely grooved anteriorly, rarely with spiral 

 impressed Unes on the upper whorls ; dark brownish-black, 

 longitudinally striped with white, the stripes narrow, more 

 or less flexuous, sometimes interrupted ; epidermis thin, pale 

 yellowish-brown; whorls 5—6, the last one shouldered and 

 very turgid near the upper portion of the aperture ; outer 

 lip with a heavy deposit of callus, slighdy crenulate near the 

 base, slightly contracted above. 



Found in the Viti and Samoa Islands. 



Genus TURRICULA Klein. 

 81. Turricula amabiiis Reeve. Conch. Icon., pi. xxxiii., fig. 



274. 



This small species which is rather rare, was obtained at 



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