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JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



Vol. 12. APRIL, 1907. No. 2. 



LATIRUS FUNEBRIS n.sp. FROM THE WEST INDIES. 



By H. B. PRESTON, F.Z.S. 



(Read before the Society, February 13th, 1907). 



Shell elongately fusiform ; dark purplish brown ; remaining whorls 

 seven, slightly rounded, sculptured with closely-set transverse ribs, 

 intersected by spiral grooves, giving the shell a cancellate appearance; 

 sutures impressed ; outer lip serrated by the termination of the spiral 

 grooves ; aperture oval ; columella two-plaited ; canal moderately 

 short. 



Alt., 15 mm. ; diam. maj., 5 mm. Aperture, alt. 4 mm. ; diam., 

 2*25 mm. 



Hab., West Indies. 



Allied to Z. cayohuesonicus Sow.,^ from Florida, but differs from 

 that species in its less pyramidal form and in the transverse ribs, 

 which are much more numerous and finer than is the case with 

 Z. cayohuesonicus. 



I Proc. Zool. Soc, 1878, p. 796, pi. xlviii., f. 4, and Mem. Manchester Soc, (4), vol. 4, p 

 404, 1891. 



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