550 ME. E. A. SMITH ON MABINE SHELLS 



whorl, and the lowest a little below it. Eeeve describes the 

 whorls as beiug smooth beneath the orange nodules. The shell 

 before me is longitudinally broadly ribbed, the upper extremities 

 being somewhat thickened, but scarcely nodulous. They do not 

 extend quite to the base of the body-whorl. 



52. MiTRA (Turricula) lubens. Reeve, Conch. Icon. ii. f. 331. 

 Hah. San Christoval, Solomou Islands {Brazier) ; Philippine Islands 



{Cuming). 



53. M, (Turricula) nodulifera, A. Adams, Proc.Zool. Soc. 1851, 

 p. 141. 



Hab. San Christoval, Solomou Islands {Brazier); " ?" (Adams). 



The length of the specimen from the above locality is 11^ mill., 

 and its diameter 4. Its ground-colour is pale pinkish ; and the ribs 

 are white, especially at the nodulous ends, and the interior of the 

 aperture orange. 



64. M. (Turricula) ficulina, var. PI. XXX. fig. 12. 



Mitra ficulina, Lamk. Anim. sans vert. ed. 2, vol. x. p. 336; Kiener, 



pi. 27. f. 86; Reeve, i. 141. 

 Testa ovata, turrita, brevis, lata, saturate chocolato-fusca ; anfractus 9 ? 

 (apice fracto), sutura profunda sejvmcti, costis obliquis crassiusculis 

 (in anfr, ultimo 13 versus basim fere obsoletis) instruct!, et sulcis spi- 

 ralibus circiter 6 distantibus (in anfr. ult. 15-1 6, quorum 2-3 paululum 

 ante basim latissimi et profundi) sculpti ; apertura pallide lilacea, 

 longitudinis testie ^ paulo superans, longe intus liris filiformibus cir- 

 citer 12 armata; columella tenuiter callosa superne tuberculata, plieis 

 obliquis 4 munita ; canalis mediocris, leviter recurvus. Long. 15^ 

 mill., diam. 7%- 

 Hab. San Christoval, Solomon Islands. 



This specimen is remarkable for its short ovate form and uniform 

 dark chocolate-brown colour. The ribs on the body-whorl are 

 much attenuated at the base, and are made nodulous by being 

 traversed by the few deep and broad sulcations which exist around 

 that portion of the whorl. 



55. M. (Pusia) CuMiNGii, Reeve, Conch. Icon. ii. f. 6/. 



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

 {Cuming). 



The interstices between the transverse ridges are described by 

 E,eeve as " deeply impressed ;" but in the specimen sent by Brazier 

 they are deeply elongately punctured between the longitudinal 

 costations, especially on the spire and tlie upper half of the body- 

 whorl ; on the lower portion they are less deep. The short Cauda 

 of this whorl is bright orange ; and the aperture is pale buff. 



