274 



has its axials and spirals not so broad and close-set. It may- 

 be only a variant, in which case its specific name will indi- 

 cate its difference from the typical form. 



Trophon latior, n. .sp. PI. xxi., iigs. o and 4. 



►Shell solid, ovately fusiform, of seven whorls. Proto- 

 conch of two and a half whorls, smooth, convex, ending 

 abruptly, apex exsert. Whorls convex, the first round, the 

 others sharj^ly angulate above the centre. Body-whorl 

 roundly angled at the periphery, very contracted at the base. 

 Aperture obliquely axially oval. Canal moderate, oblique 

 to the left, slightly concave to the right, recurved, open. 

 Outer lip thin, simple: inner lip only a glaze. Columella 

 nearly straight, scarcely angled at junction with the canal. 

 Sculpture bold ; axial costae, ten in the penultimate, high, 

 compressed, rovmded, narrower than the interspaces, ex- 

 tending from the suture to the varix of the canal. Spirals, 

 three, the largest on the shoulder, the smallest between it 

 and the upjoer suture, crossing the costse ; nine in the body- 

 whorl. Colour horn-tinted, with a white spiral line at the- 

 angle, and a broad, brown band below the periphery, dot- 

 ting the spire whorls in the spaces above the suture and fad- 

 ing out anteriorly. The most anterior spiral on the varix 

 of the canal articulated brown, the one above it wholly white.. 



Dim. — Length, 72 mm. ; of body-whorl, 4'7 mm. ;; 

 width, 39 mm. 



Locality. — Type in 40 fatlioms oft' Beachport, with twO' 

 other fresh specimens, all dead. 



Ohs. — One example is not quite so wide as the type. 

 Its affinity is with T. colmnnarius:, Hedley and May, but. is- 

 shorter and wider (whence its name) and has not its axial 

 foliations. 



Voluta fulgetrum, Sowerby, ray. dictua, v;u\ nov. 



PI. xxi., fig. 7. 



Valuta fulgctrum, Sowerby, Catalogue of Shells in the Col- 

 lection of the Earl of Tankerville, 1825; Appendix, p. 28. No. 

 2149, pis. iv. and v. 



This variety is of the same shape and size as individuals- 

 with typical colouration. It is covered with a fine network 

 of a light yellowish-brown tint, formed by close-set axial 

 lines of small transverse arrowhead and reticulate markings, 

 not unlike those of Voluta exoptanda, Sowerby. At the- 

 suture in the body-whorl these lines end as small blotches 

 of deeper colour, j^roducing a flamed articulation ; and in' 



