MOLLUSCA. 
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for it the new genus TJrosalpmx. The ovicapsulse of the true 
Muricidoi are more or less pedunculated and erect, those of the 
Buccinidoi, including Nepiunea, flattened, adhering by a broad 
basis, and generally piled one upon another. (Am. Journ. 
Conch, i. pp. 56-59.) The lingual dentitions of Trophon gunneri, 
Tritonidea tincta, Eupleura caudata, and TJrosalpmx cmereus are 
figured on pi. 8. figs. 3-6 ; the ovicapsulse of the last fig. 7. 
Murex erinaceus is very destructive to oysters, boring with its proboscis a 
round hole in the oyster-shell, between the muscular impressions and the 
apex, in order to feed upon the flesh of the oyster. Fischer, Journ. Conchyl. 
xiii. pp. 6-8. 
New species : — ■ 
Murex ahysHcola, Crosse, Journ. Conch, xiii. p. 30, pi. 1. ,flg. 46, Guade- 
loupe j M. friclci, Crosse, ibid. p. 67, California ; M. inglorius, Crosse, ibid, 
p. 213, pi. G. fig. 4, locality mihnown. 
Ocmehra interfossa, Carpenter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1866, p. 64, 
Puget Sound ; Ocinehra poulsoni, Carpenter, Journ. Conch, xiii. p. 148 , 
California. 
Muricidea harharensis, Gabb, Proc. Calif. Acad. Nat. Sc. 1865, Cali- 
fornia ; Muricidea dubia, var. squamidata, Carpenter, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1866, 
p. 281, Cape St. Lucas, California. 
Typhis yatesi, Crosse, Journ. Conch, xiii. p. 64, pi. 2. fig. 6, South 
Australia. 
Ftisus (Pisania) crosseanus, Souverbie (formerly regarded as an extreme 
variety of P. hilleheusti), Journ. Conch, xiii. pp. 169-161, New Caledonia. — 
Fusus helleri, Brusina, Verhandl. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, p. 8, Dalmatian 
near F. corallinus. — F, schrammi, Crosse, .Journ. Conch, xiii. p. 31, pi. 6. 
fig. 9, Guadeloupe ; F. lincolnensis, Crosse, ibid. p. 63, pi. 2. f. 4, South 
Australia. 
Chrysodomus rcctirostris, Carpenter, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1865, 
p. 64, Puget Sound. 
Siplionalia fuscozmiata, Angas, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 66, pi. 2. f. 7, 8, 
South Australia ; S. fuscotincta, Carpenter, Ann. &; Mag. Nat. Hist. xv. 
p. 399, Sta. Barbara, California. 
BuCCINIDuE. 
Mr. W. Stimpson regards as chief characters of this family the 
flat lamelliform rhachidiaii [median] tooth, and the lateral tooth 
armed with at least two strong dentiform lobes; he excludes 
thereby the Nassidm, which would form a distinct family on 
account of the arched form and very numerous denticles of the 
rhachidian tooth, but establishes a new subfamily, NepiumincB 
(see above, p. 242) , characterized by a more or less beaked shell and 
an ovate operculum with apical nucleus. Also the genera Feri- 
sternia (Morch), formerly among the Turbinelleje, and Busy con 
(Bolten) (Month, type, Pyrula canaliculata, Lam.) are 
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