134 . MOLLUSCA. 
. Olividal. 
Oliva. Marratt concludes his monograph of this genus in 
Sowerby^s ^Thesaurus ^ (pt. xxx. pp. 1-46, pis. 15-25), contain- 
ing 226 spp., and illustrated by 475 good figures. 
The following spp. are described as new, the localities of many 
of them being unknown : — 
O. artataj China sea, figs. 229 & 230 ; blandaj figs. 236 & 237 ; faha^ figs. 
238 & 239 ) reclusciy Florida, fig. 246 j mercatoriay W. Indies, figs. 268 & 269 ; 
mucronataj figs. 274 & 276 ; nivosa, fig. 276 j circinata, fig. 277 j ovata^ figs, 
281 & 282 j labuanensiSf Labuan, fig-s. 311 & 312; annotata^ Sierra Leone, 
figs. 313-316 ; cauta^ W. Africa, figs. 327-329 ; l(^e [s/c], W. Africa, figs. 
330 & 331; inti'icata, Africa, figs. 344 & 346; ajffinis, Acapulco, fig. 362; 
pusillUf Florida, fig. 360; lactcttf Edgeinont Bay, fig. 376; versicolor j Gulf of 
California, figs. 377 & 878 ; sctcrra, W. Indies, fig. 380 ; tenuis, fig. 886 ; 
elongata, figs. 386 & 387 ; alha, Guatemala, fig. 390 ; piperita, figs. 402 & 403 ; 
piilla, fig. 411 ; fahula, figs. 420 & 421 ; nota, Vancouver’s I., fig. 428 ; pulchra, 
fig. 429 ; compta, California, fig. 432 ; volutelloides, fig. 436 ; miliacea, Alexan- 
dria [?], fig*. 441 ; lufea, figs. 444 & 445 ; bullata, fig. 448 ; exiiis, fig. 462 ; 
orbigngi [auricidaiia (Orb.), var.], Patagonia, fig. 458; plana, fig. 463; puli- 
caria, fig. 464 ; micida, Alexandria [?], fig*. 468 ; grata, fig. 470 ; fidva, fig. 471. 
' Oliva (^Olivella) consobrina, sp. n., Lisclike, Mai. Bl. xviii. p. 41, and Jap. 
Meeres-Conch. ii. p. 62, p], 5. figs. 10 & 11, Nagasaki. 
Olivella exquisita, sp. n., Angas, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 13, pi. 1. fig. 2, N. S. 
AVales. 
Turhinellidaj. 
Turbinella scabra (Souverbie, 1869), J. de Conch, xviii. p. 430, pi. 14. fig. 3 ; 
and T. noumeensis (Crosse, 1870), ibid. xix. p. 199, pi. 6. fig. 1, N. Caledonia. 
FaSCIOLARIIDA5. 
Faseiolaria is said to be monographed in Hidalgo’s ‘ Moluscos marinos de 
Espaha,’ part iv., 1871 (63 pp. with 4 pis.), which, to the Recorder’s regret, 
has not come within his reacli. 
Faseiolaria audouini {3QXkdi&^, Lischke, Jap. Meeres-Conch. ii. p. 28, Japan. 
F. (Polggona) crocea (Gray) =Xrt^irwswet^com6n (A. Ad.), Sandwich Islands, 
Martens and Langkavel, Don. Bism. p. 12, pi. 1. fig. 9 ; F. (P.) sp. , ? = 
ustulata, Rv., described, ibid. F. ( Turbinella) rhodostoma (Bunker), Lischke, 
I, c. p. 29, Nagasaki. 
VOLUTIDAS. 
Crosse (J. de Conch, xix. pp. .263-309) gives a list of the 73 
knoAvn recent species of Valuta (excluding Lyria), arranging them 
in 16 sections, 6 of which are each composed of a single species, 
and most of which have been previously established by or are 
slightly modified from Swainson, Gray, and H. and A. Adams, 
the following being new : — 
Tsephcea, for Voluta concinna (Brod.), pi. 12. fig. 7, Japan ; Volutoconus, for 
V. eoniforrnis (Cox) [see next page] ; Mamillana, for V. mamilla (Gray). 
The headquarters of Voluta, as restricted by Crosse, appear 
to be in Australia, and a triangle from Ceylon to Japan and New 
Zealand would include three fourths of the species ; the Indian 
