380 MESSES. MELVILL AND STAlfDEN ON [June 18, 



Earn. Veemetid^. 

 Veemetfs sp. 



1. Bombay {Ahercromhie). round cast up from deep-water 

 amongst shell-sand. 



SiLIQUAEIA sp. JUV. 



I. Lat. 18° 58' N., long. 71° 45' E. ; 40 fathoms. 



Earn. SteombiDjE. 

 Strombus (GtAllinula) deeoemis Gray. 



M.C. A single dead specimen only dredged, without more exact 

 record of locality. 



Steombus (Gallinula) fusieoemis Sowb. 



P.G. Shaikh Shuaib Island, &c. This rare species, queried by 

 Try on (Man. de Conch, vii. p. 117) as inhabiting the Eed Sea, 

 seems to be general in the Persian Gulf, being found at from 

 7 to 10 fathoms in coral-sand bottom. Many varieties occur, one 

 being pale lemon-yellow. Juvenile examples exhibit strong varices 

 and transverse striation throughout. In the Gulf of Oman it 

 occurs near Maskat at 15 fathoms. 



Steombus (Canaeium) eloeidus Lam. 



M.C. Charbar. On mud-covered rocks at low tide. 



Steombus (Canaeium) gibbeeulus L. 



P.G. Maskat, 15 fathoms. Not common in the Gulf, but 

 one of the most widely-distributed gastropods in the Indo- 

 Pacific region. 



I. Bombay {Ahercromhie). Bassein, southwards (Lt.-Col. II. 

 D. Olivier). 



Steombus (Canaeium) yeebueyi E. Sm. 



P.G. Kais and Shaikh Shuaib Islands. From 7 to 10 fathoms, 

 coral-sand. Our examples appear almost intermediate between 

 typical yerhuryi and joulchellus Eve., and suggest these two being 

 extremes of a variable species. 



Steombus (Conomueex) beluchiensis ^ Melv. (nom. emend.). 

 (Plate XXI. figs. 13, 15.) 



P.G. Linjah. 3^ fathoms, December 1900. Maskat (Dr. A. B. 

 Jayakar). 



M.C. Charbar. 7 fathoms, mud and sand. 



The more recently-dredged Persian Gulf examples exhibit variety 

 in colour and marking, though none in form. One example is 

 banded with pale straw-coloured fasciae, the spaces filled with 

 delicate zigzag lines ; another strongly banded with dark-brown 

 fasciae of varying thickness. The first examples discovered in 1898 



^ I described this as helutschiensis, but venture to emend the spelling to 

 heluchiensis as more in harmony with the dictates of orthography, — J. C. M. 



