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2 2. iMiircx (Phyllonotus) cii-rosus lliiuls. 



Hinds, rroc. Zool. Soc. Loiul. 1843, p. 128. 



Reeve. Conch. Ic. Vol. Ill, Murex, fig. 138. 



SOWERBV. Thes. Conchyl. Vol. IV, Murcx, p. 40, D. 22, fig. 221. 



Tryon. Man. of Conch. Vol. II, p. iii, IM. 30, fig. 285. 



Stat. 51. I\huhn-a-ba)'. 69^ — 91 RI. Fine grey .sand, coarse sand with shells, i Spec. 

 Stat. 71. Makassar and surroundings. Up to 32 M. Mud, sand with mud, coral, i Spec. 

 Stat. 164. i''42'.5 S., I30°47'.5 E. Near West New Guinea. 32 M. Sand, small stones and shells. 

 4 Spec. 



The brown colour of the figures it not conspicuous in the Siboga specimens. They may 

 be bleached or belong to a light variety. As Reeve in his description says that the shell is 

 pale flesh colour, the darker brown of the figure may be exaggerated. 



Ocinebra Leach. 



1. Ocinebra Smithi n. sp. PI. XXI, fig. 3. 



Stat. 105. 6°8'N., 121° 19' E. Sulu-archipelago. 275 M. Coralbottom. 2 Spec. 



Shell shortly fusiform, with rather long, acute spire, thin, yellowish-brown. Whorls about 

 7 or 8, (in the finest specimen the upper whorls are incrustated, in the other one worn) convex, 

 slightly flattened above, separated by a deep suture. Shell rather smooth, with 8 varices on 

 the upper whorls. 6 on the last ; these varices have 2 hollow spines on the upper whorls, 3 

 on the penultimate and 6 on the last one, the upper spine of each varix is the longest and 

 elegantly turned up, the other ones are only slightly upturned, the spines are connected on the 

 intermediate areas by rather inconspicuous spiral ribs or lirae. Aperture subtriangular, upper margin 

 horizontal, outer margin convexly curved, the spines not very prominent, as in the apertural 

 varix they are connected by a very fine wall, consisting on the front side of fine angular 

 scales, which are moreover undulate. Interior margin with 4 tubercles ; columellar margin smooth, 

 with a thin free lamina, columellar side and outer border of upper and right margins light 

 violet, interior of aperture brown ; canal moderately long, a little open, directed towards the 

 right and upturned, with an external row of scales at its origin, formed by the ends of the varices. 



Alt. 15, lat. 8 (inch peristome but without spines of opposite varix) apert. alt. (with 

 canal) 8^3 lat. (from columellar margin to internal outer margin) 2 Mill. 



This fine species is, according to Mr. Smith, similar to M. pttritus Hinds, but is not 

 so much contracted below and the upper spines are much less curved, moreover that species 

 is from the West-coast of N. -America; it has in my opinion more resemblance with M. Hidalgoi 

 Crosse, which is however much larger (36 Mill.), of another colour and from the West Indies. 



2. Ocinebra fuscofrondosa n. sp. PI. XXI, fig. 4. 



Stat. 50. Bay of Badjo, West coast of Flores. Up to 40 M. Mud, sand and shells, i Spec. 



Shell obtusely fusiform, rather thin, yellowish, tinted with brown, with dark brown varices. 

 Apex wanting, remaining whorls 4^3, very convex, obliquely flattened above, with deep sutures, 



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