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C. testa turrita ; anfractibus trigonis, ad basin angustatis, ad 

 angulum coronatis, in medio sulcato ; umbilico inaximo, margine 

 crenulato ; apertura trigona, columella triplicata ; colore pallide 

 violaceo. 



From Ceylon, widely different from all other species. 



66. Cancellaria semidisjuncta (pi. xcv. f. 62, 63), 

 Sowerby, Junr. Pro. Zool Soc. 1848. 



C. testa ovali ventricosa, turrita, spiraliter sulcata ; anfractibus 

 angulatis, ad suturam profunde disjunctis, ultima disjuncta : 

 umbilico maximo, costato ; apertura triangulari ; columella tripli- 

 cata, colore fulvo, fusco longitudinaliter fasciato. 



Cagayan, island of Mindinao, in twenty-five fathoms, sandy 

 mud, by Mr. Cuming. 



67. Cancellaria antiquata (pi. xciii. f. 27), Hinds, Zoo- 

 logy of the Sulphur, p. 43. pi. xii. f. 17, 18. 



Testa ovata, acuminata, contabulata, albida ; anfractibus sep- 

 tenis, planulatis, costatis, transversim striatis ; costis acutis, 

 superne spinis cavis desinentibus ; apertura trigona ; labro retlexo ; 

 columella plicis tribus minimis ; umbilico maximo. 



A most elegant little species with a trigonal aperture, large 

 umbilicus, and the whorls separated from each other by a series 

 of pits. 



From the shores of New Guinea; taken in coarse sand, 

 twenty-two fathoms. 



68. Cancellaria acuminata (pi. xcii. f. 1), Sowerby, Pro. 

 Zool. Soc. 1832. p. 53. 



C. testa ovali, la3vi, spiraliter obsolete striata ; spira sub-elon- 

 gata, acuminata ; anfractibus rotundato-angulatis ; apertura interne 

 plicata, columella triplicata, posteriori magna : labio externo ad 

 canalem emarginato. Colore fasciatim fulvo ; apertura alba. 



This shell, dredged by Mr. Cuming in sandy mud, at a depth 

 of twelve fathoms at Guacomayo in Central America, is like 

 C. reticulata in general form and character, but the ribs and sides 

 are obsolete, and the spire is much longer in proportion to the 

 aperture. 



