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be eight, and not six (as described by the author of the species), the 

 three apical ones being smooth, convex, and glossy. The colour 

 also is rather blue slate-colour than " blackish ;" and the upper 

 edge of the whorls at the suture is dirty white or yellowish, and 

 a little below it there is a slender, obscure, reddish spiral line. 

 The aperture is very dark rich brown and small ; the labrum much 

 thickened, with two pale spots on the exterior, thinnish at the edge, 

 and furnished with four or five denticles within ; the columella 

 arcuate, clothed with a brown callus, which is rather broadly re- 

 flexed, and provided with a single tooth above and one at the base. 

 The longitudinal plications on the body-whorl ai'e from 20-21 in 

 number, and become somewhat obsolete towards the base, where 

 the transverse fine lirae are not granulous on crossing them as 

 above and on the whorls of the spire (where the number is from 

 five to six) ; and between these lirations there are very fine spiral 

 striae. 



35. Purpura buccinea, Deshayes, Anim. sans Vert. ed. 2, vol. x. 

 p. 92; Reeve, Conch. Icon. iii. f. 16, a, b. — Purpura striata, Quoy <5" 

 Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, pi. 37. f. 12, 13; Kiener, Coq. Viv.\)\. 38. 

 f. 88. 



Hob. Makeira Harbour, San Christoval, Solomon Islands {Brazier); 

 "New Guinea" {Quoy). 



36. Vexilla fusco-nigra, Pease, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1860, p. 141. 

 Hub. San Christoval, Solomon Islands {Brazier) ; " Sandwich Islands " 



(Pease). 

 The colour of this species differs somewhat from Pease's de- 

 cription, the tubercles of the spiral ribs being yellowish edged 

 with black, and the interstices between them bluish ash-colour. 



37. SiSTRUM anaxares, Duclos. — Purpura auaxares, Duclos, Kiener, 

 Coq. Viv. p. 26, pi. 7- f- 17; Reeve, Conch. Icon. iii. pi. 12. f. 61. 



Hab. San Christoval, Solomon Islands {Brazier) ; Lord Hood's Island 

 ( Cuming) . 



38. Latirus ustulatus. Reeve. — Turbinel laustulata. Reeve, Conch. 

 Icon. iv. f. 62. 



Hab. San Christoval, Solomon Islands {Brazier). 

 The locality of this species has not, I believe, been hitherto re- 

 corded. 



39. MiTRA c^RULEA, Recvc, Conch. Icon. ii. f. 113. 



Hab. San Christoval, Solomon Islands (Brazier); Philippine Islands 



(Cuming). 

 This species is described and figuri'd by Reeve as being encir- 



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