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11. Fusrs (COLTJS) EADIALIS, n. sp. 



St. 142. Dec. 18, 1873. Lat. 35" 4' S., long. 18° 37' E. Off 

 the Cape of Good Hope. 150 fms. Sand. Bottom temperature 

 47° r. 



Shell. — Thin, fusiform, high, narrow, with rounded whorls bi- 

 sected by a sharp radiatinglj tubercled keel, and parted by a deep 

 open suture ; the rounded and contracted base is produced into 

 a long narrow snout. Sculpture. Longitudinals — the surface is 

 scored by sharp, high, close-set, unequal, hair-like lines of growth. 

 Spirals — in the middle of each whorl is a sharp expressed keel 

 running out into rays of horizontal blunt tubercles * ; above this 

 there are two rounded threads, and below it one, parted by flat 

 furrows three times their breadth; on the last whorl below the keel 

 there are of these threads, on the base three, at the root of the snout 

 one, and on the snout about ten. The whole surface is further 

 scratched with fine sharp lines. Colour -. the specimen is dead 

 and bleached. Spire scalar, high and conical. Apex eroded. 

 Whoo'ls 6 to 7, well rounded but for the prominent sharp keel 

 which angulates them ; they are very much contracted above and 

 markedly so below ; the last is a little tumid, with a round much 

 contracted base, produced into a long, straight, narrow snout. 

 Suture a minute line at the bottom of the deep broad hollow in 

 which the superior and inferior whorls meet. Mouth, irregularly 

 circular, and produced into a long, straight, narrow canal. Outer 

 lip thin. Inner lip shortly concave above, and then very straight. 

 H. 1-47. B. 0-62. Penultimate whorl, height 0-2. Mouth, 

 height 0-87, breadth 0-3. 



This species, the only specimen of which is uufortunately in 

 very bad condition, slightly resembles F. spiralis, A. Ad., but is 

 broader, the suture is deeper, the uj)per part of the whorls is 

 much more sculptured, and the keel is much sharper and more 

 expressed. 



12. Fusirs (CoLTJs) saeissophoeus t, n- sp. 



St. 122. Sept. 10, 1873. Lat. 9° 5' S., long. 34° 50' W. Off 

 Pernambuco. 350 fms. Mud. 



Shell. — Thin, porcellaneous, white, acutely, substellately cari- 

 nated, with a short, conical, subscalar spire, mamillate apex, deep 

 suture, contracted base, and long, sharp, and fine snout. Sculp - 



* Hence the name. 



t So called from the long pike-like snout which it bears. 



