548 ME. E. A. SMITH ON MAIUNE SHELLS 



cled by "a broad blue band" around the last whorl. In the spe- 

 cimen from the Solomon Islands this band is of a brown colour. 



40. MiTRA FLAMMEA, Quoy 8f Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, pi. 45 bis. 

 f. 23-25 ; Reeve, Conch. Icon. ii. f. 120. 



Hab. San Christoval, Solomon Islands (Brazier) ; Philippines (CMmw^r), 



41. M. QuoYi, Deshayes. — M. nigra, Q. Voy. Astrolabe, pi. 45. f. 16- 

 18 ; Reeve, Conch. Icon. ii. f. 109; Kiener, Coq. Viv. pi. 12. f. 37- 



Hab. San Christoval, Solomon Islands. 



I am by no means confident that the species figured above are 

 identical. Quoy describes his shell with three plaits on the colu- 

 mella, aud Eeeve four. The species of the latter author, when in 

 a good state of preservation, is clothed with a very thin dirty olive 

 epidermis, and is encircled with rather distant spiral series of 

 shallow punctures. The specimen from the Solomon Islauds agrees 

 with the latter variety. 



42. M. (Zierlian.a) anthracina, Reeve, Conch. Icon. ii. f. 137- 

 Hab. San Christoval, Solomon Islands {Brazwr); "Philippine Islands" 



{Cuming). 

 The lirse within the labrum are very fine, thread-like, and about 

 fifteen in number. 



43. M. (Zierliana) creniplicata, J. Adams, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1851, 

 p. 139. 



Hab. San Christoval, Solomon Islands (Brazier). 



Tiie locality of this species is not quoted by its describer. The 

 specimen sent by Mr. Brazier is 17 millim. long and G^ in width ; 

 and the lirations within the aperture are twelve in number, some 

 of them extending much further inwards than others. 



44. M. (Turrtcula) rufofilosa, sp. nov. PL XXX. fig. 10. 

 Testa ovato-fusiformis, turrita, saturate olivaceo-fusca, circa partem in- 



feriorem anfract. superiorum et paululum supra medmm anfr. iiltimi 

 zona alba medio linea rufa bipartita ornata; anfractus 11 sutura pro- 

 funda discreti, subplani, costis parum obliquis 14 instructi, et sulcis 

 profundis 5-6 praecipue inter costas, spiraliter sculpti ; anfr. ultimus 

 sulcis ti'ansversis circiter 21, paucis ad basim profundissimis ornatus 

 et costis longitudinalibus inferne attenuantibus et granosis ; apertura 

 subangusta, longitudinis testae quam ^ paulo minor, nigro-fusea albo 

 fasciata, intus tenuiter lirata; columella obliqua, plicis albis 4 munita, 

 superne tuberculum parvura gerens ; canalis angustiusculus leviter 

 recurvus. Long. \8h mill., diara. 7- 

 Hab. San Christoval, Solomon Islands. 



