488 



MR. II. T^. KIDLET ON THE 



by a Mr. Lewis, together with other species which are imdoubtedlv 

 "West-African forms. 



12. Leucozonia ocellata (Gmeliii). 

 Hah. West Indies. 



The specimens obtained offer no differences from ordinary 

 West-Indian examples. 



13. Latirus spadiceus (Reeve). 



A single young shell seems to beloug to this species. 

 L. concentricKs, Heeve, L. hrevicaiida^ ^eewe, L. (/racilis, Keeve, 

 and the present species are very closely related. 



14. MiTRA BARBADENSis (Gmelm). 



Hah. West Indies, Barbados, St. Vincent, &c. 



M. tessellata, Kiener, which Reeve named M.^icta, is perfectly 

 distinct from the present species, and well known as a South- 

 African shell. Tryon *, not possessing or not having seen the 

 species, at once concludes, from their general superficial resem- 

 blance, that it must be the same as M. harhadensis. The sculpture 

 of the two is quite difterent. M. harhadensis is ornamented with 

 raised spiral lines, whilst 3£. picta exhibits transverse punctured 

 striae. The character of the outer lip also is quite different. 



15. MiTRA (Pusia) axsulata, Sowerhy. 



Mitra ansulata, Sowerby, Thes. Conch, vol. iv. p. 26, pi. 373. fig. 474. 



Mitra microzonias, -Reei;e (non Lamarck), Con. Icon. figs. 185, 202; 

 Sowerby, I c. fig. 635 ; Kiener, Coq. Viv. pi. 28. fig. 89 (probably) ; 

 Tryon, Man. Conch, iv. p. 183, pi. 54. figs. 568, 569. 



Hah. St, Thomas (Ilus. Cuininc/) ; " West Indies, Morch, Krebs, 

 and Swift," Tryon. 



This species is said to occur in Polynesia, but the British 

 Museum Collection aftords no evidence in proof of this statement. 



The shell from Pernando Noronha belongs to that form of the 

 species as figured by Eeeve (fig. 185). 



This is usually considered the M. microzonias of Lamarck, but 

 if it be compared with the figure of that sj^ecies in the ' Eucy- 

 clopedie Methodique' (pi. 374. fig. 8), it will be seen that it is 

 a much more slender shell. The true M. microzonias has also 

 been figured by Kiister (Con.-Cab. pi. 17. figs. 12, 13), and Reeve 

 also correctly depicts it (Con. Icon. pi. xxx. fig. 242 on left) under 

 the name of 31. leucodesma. Sowerby in his description of 

 * Man. Conch, vol. iv. p. 118. 



