29 



smooth, and tlie last of whk-h has 11 to 12 frondiciilated rib's. It is 7 mm. 

 long and 3 mm. thick. 



yassa Japonica Adams. 



(Genera Moll. vol. 1, p. 120, Caesia Japonica ; id. in Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



History 1870, vol. 5, p. 42tj. — Lischkc, Japan Meeres-conch. Ill, p. 37, 



pi. 2, f. 20-23. — Non Nassa Japonica Reeve, Demoulea Japonica Adams, 



in Reeve. Icon. Nassa. pi. 29. f. 192). 



Without tiying to criticize the s^tatements made by Lischke, I coniine 

 myself here to identifying with his species one which is very frequently found at 

 Oji, tliongli almost e.xclusively in very small specimens. The turreted shape and 

 the nice transverse stria; with broad, somewhat conve.x interstitional lines, go 

 almost imiformly over the costa> and give to the surface a mnch less granular 

 character than in the (equally elongated) N. grannlata J. Sow. The somewhat 

 conve.K and rounded form of the whcrl'^ niaki's this identilication perfectly 

 certain. 



Nassa live sec us Philippi. 



(Zeitscher für Malaco/.ool. 1848, p. 135, as Bucciuum. — Dunker, Moll. 

 Japon. p. 7 Lischke, Japan. Meeres-Conch. II, page 52, pi. 4, f. l-3i. 



The same is to be said about another sju'cies of Nassa, which occurred but 

 rarely at Oji, broader, thicker, with less convex whorls, and with coarser and 

 more oblique ribs. 



Colvmhelln scripta. Lin no. 

 (Syst. Nat. ed. XII, P. 1225, as Murex scri[)tus.— Blainville, Faune fran- 

 (;aise, p. 20S, pi. 8, f. 20-12, as Colund)elki conica.— Philippi, Enum. 

 Moll. Sicil. vol. I, p. 225 and 227. as I'ucciniun Limia-i. — Kiener, Coqu. 

 viz. p. 48, pi. 16, f. 56, as Piuccinum corniculatuin. — Sowerby, Thes. Conch 

 p. 127, pi. 38, f. 101, as C'llundiella cornieulata.— Deshayes in ed. Lamarck, 

 vol. X, P. 175. same name.— Philippi, En. Moll. Sic. vol. II, ]'. 190 and 

 193, as Buccinum scrifitinn Chemnitz, Conch, cab. second I'd. p. 41, pi 

 8, f. 19-22, same name. — WeinkanfF, Conch, d. ^littelm. vol. U, p 3l). 

 d'Orbigny, Prodr. vol. Ill, p. 175. as Columl'clla pseudo-scripta.-Hoernes, 

 Mollusken des Wiener Beckens, v. 1. y. ll'i, pi. 11, f. 12.14.— Beyrich, 

 Zeitschr. d. geol. Ges. Tert. M.1II. p. 107, pi. 6. f. 8.». 



This shell known- from Nagasaki and meutioneil by Uunker, Lischke (Jap. 

 Meeres-conch. I. p. 57 and .58) an I others agrees with fossil and recent specimens 

 of the species, which is eminently mediterranean. The sjiecimens of Oji are 

 tolerably numerous, nearly as large (15 m. m. long, C of which liclong tu the 

 aperture, 6 in. m. broad) and of the same pro[>ortions as the EurojK'an. 



Olivelln cniiHoliritia Lischke. 



(JajKin. MeercH-coiich II, p. 62, \>\. 5, f 10 and 111. ' 



A few 8|H;cimens entirely curresponding with Lischke's figure — only the color- 

 ing being deficient in the fossil shell— have been in<;t with at Oji. 



