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seas contain vaHous spp.; and several others occur on the different 
shores of Africa and S. America^ the Arctic and European seas 
and the Red Sea_, however, having no representative of them. 
Valuta rupestris, var. hamillei, Orosse, Lischke, Jap. Meeres-Oonch. ii. 
p. 59, Japan. 
Valuta punctata (Swains.) figured from a fine specimen ky Cox, J. de Conch, 
xix. p. 77, pi. 6. fig. 2; V. caniformis^ Bass’s Straits, and Idngij N.W. Australia, 
spp. nn., id. ibid. pp. 74-7G, pi. 4. figs. 1 & 2, also P. Z. S. 1871, p. 324, pi. 
34. figs. 4, 5, & 6. 
V. (Atdica) wisemaniy sp. n., Brazier, J. de Conch, xix. p. 78, pi. 5. fig. 3, 
N.E. Australia. 
V. {Amaria) australice, sp. n., Cox, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 643, pi. 34. fig. 6, Bass’s 
Straits. 
MlTRIDyE. 
Mitra kraussii (Bunker) = (Schrenk, nec Lam.), Lischke, Jap. 
Meeres-Conch. ii. p. CO, Japan. 
Mitra carinilirata, sp. n., Souverbie, J. de Conch, xix. p. 335, Art Island, 
N. Caledonia. 
M. (Turrictda) clcgantula, sp. n.. Bunker, Mai. Bl. xviii. p. 154, Upolu. 
M. (T.) bella (Pease), jncea (Pease), and tadilla (High.), Martens & Lang- 
kavel. Bon. Bism. pp. 17 and 19, pi. 1. figs. 10-12, Sandwich Islands j cf. ibid. 
pp. 16 & 17 on colours of rubra and rosea (Brod.). 
M. (^Strigatella) acuminata (Swains.) and columbellceformis (Kien.) ; for 
critical remarks on these spp., cf. Martens & Langkavel, 1. c. pp. 13 & 16 ; 
hrunnea (Pease) described, ibid. p. 15, Baker Island; samuelis (Bohrn) is di- 
stinct from astricta (Reeve), ibid. p. 18. 
Dibaphus philippii (Crosse) occurs on the Caroline Islands : Pease, J. de 
Conch, xix. p. 98. 
CoLUMBELLIUiE. 
Columbella varians (Sow.) and nana (M\(da.')==poccila (Sow.), as to varia- 
bility of which cf. Martens & Langkavel, 1. c. p. 21; C. marquesa (Gaskoin) 
queried as a Daphnellay ibid. p. 22 ; C. fusiformis (Pease), ibid. p. 21, pi. 1. 
fig. 14, Sandwich Islands. 
Cahimbella martensiy sp. n., Lischke, Mai. 131. xviii. p. 40, and Jap. Meeres- 
Conch. ii. p. 47, pi. 5. figs. 1-9, Nagasaki. 
C. {Seniinella) varia (Pease) is renamed varia being preoccupied; C. 
(S.) lacrgma (Gaskoin), Martens & Langkavel, 1. c. p. 23, pi. 1. figs. 17 & 18, 
Sandwich I. 
C. (Nitidella) mtensis and plicatida, spp. nn.. Bunker, Mai. Bl. xviii. pp. 166- 
168, and C. {Anachis) nana and pusiola, spp. nn., td ibid. p. 167, Fiji I. 
C. {3Iitrella) bicincta and attenuata, spp. nn., Angas, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 14, ]il. 1. 
figs. 3 & 4, Port Jackson. 
Amycla {Astyris) striatula and tcsselatay spp. nn.. Bunker, . c. pp. 166 Si 
156, Fiji and Paumotu I. A. {Ast.) varians (Bunker), Lischke, Jap. Meeres- 
Conch. ii'. p. 49, Nagasaki. 
Marginellid^e. 
Marginella hcenii, Marratt, Ann. N. II. (4) vii. p. 141, S. Africa ; Ufouanay 
