18 Melvill, Descriptions of Marine Mollasca. 



Alt. 10, diam. g mm. 

 Locality. Charbar, 7 fathoms. 



An extremely neat shell, which seems better placed 

 in Thalotia than Calliostoma. It is allied to T. Torresi 

 Smith, being identical in form, and in umbilicus, but 

 the grained pattern is here replaced by smooth whorls, 

 spirally lirate, and at the sutures elevate, threaded, red 

 tained, and the whole surface of the whorl being 

 extremely obliquely striate, the striae passing from left 

 to right. The periphery is acutely keeled, the concentric 

 lirse at the base are rufous-dotted, and the reflexed 

 columellar margin half conceals the narrow umbilicus. 

 The upper whorls are tinged with pink — say the three 

 apical, and the next three as well. 



Calliostoma funiculare, sp. uov. (PI. 6, f. 18). 



C. testa solida, pyramidata, pallide fidvescente-ochracea, 

 hie illic cinereo-effusa, anfractibus decent, apicalibus duobus 

 pcllucentibits, deinde quatnor supernis transversim tribus gem- 

 mularum ovdinibus instructis, cceteris quatnor vel quinque 

 cingtdis funiculatis accinctis, nitidis, cingulo superiore angusto, 

 cremdato-gemmulifero, duobus inferiorities cingidis prcecipue in 

 penidtimo, antepenultimo, et apud peripheriam idtimi anfractus 

 latioribus, nitidis, et regidariter Icete riifo-macidatis, ad peri- 

 pheriam acidangidato , basi spiraliter concinne novem-funicu- 

 lata, delicate et regtdariter rufo -punctata, apertura subquadrata, 

 labro paidlum effuso, marginem apud columellaruni incrassato. 



Alt. 14, diam. 11 mm. 



Hab. Telegraph Cable. Lat. 27 N., long. 52 E. 

 (F. W. Townsend.) 



A compact pyramidal species of the normal type of 

 Calliostoma, being in pattern not altogether unlike a small 

 C. zizyphinus L. The whorls are 10, two being apical, and 

 the next four transversely beaded, shining, the remaining 



