170 REVUE ET MAGASIN DE ZOOLOGIE, 1875. 



la description de M. Sowerby. Dans sa deuxième édition, 

 Menke considère la M. irrorata comme un jeune individu, 

 de la M. glabella. 



3. Marginella Poucheti. 



Marg. Poucheti. Petit, J. conc. 1851. pi. 1, f. 3. 



« Testa ovato-oblonga, carneolata, rufo-pallido trizo- 

 nata, ad suturas albo-cincta, spira breviori, obtusiuscula; 

 apertura longitudinali, basi angustata, intus mfa; colu- 

 mellaquadriplicata; labrocrasso, marginato, intus albido, 

 crenulato, externe aurantio mfescente ; emarginatura 

 supera interne angustata. Long. 27 mill., larg. 16 mill. « 



flab. cotes occident. d'Afrique. 



4. Marginella castanea. 



Voluta castanea, Dillw. Cat. rec Shells. V. i, p. 530. 



« Shell ovate, shining, slightly striated longitudinally; 

 pillar four plaited, and the outer lip trickened and toothed 

 within. 



Voluta castanea, Solander's. 3Iss. 



Martini, ii. PI. 112, t. 42, f. 430. 



Shell about three-quaters of an inch long, and half as 

 broad, trick, strong, shining, obsolète! y striated longitu- 

 dinally, of a chestnut-colour, often more or less mottled 

 with blotches of white, and somelimes marked irregu- 

 larly with white spots at the sutures. The aperture is more 

 contracted towards the base and more channelled, and 

 the outer lip is toothed and more trickened inwards than 

 in either of the proceding species. 



Hab. cotes du Brazil, Martini. 



5. Marginella aurantiâ. 



Marg. aurantiâ, Lam., An. s. vert, vu, p. 358, n. 10. 



« M. testa ovatâ, aurantio-rubente ; spira conoideâ, 

 obtusiuscula; labro intùs crenato ; columellaquadriplicatâ. 

 Lone;. 8 lio-nes. » 



