36 MgIL 
MOLLUSCA. 
young state ; Nassa italica (Issel) is the young of a peculiar more elevated 
variety, for which the name italica may be retained ; Cyclope asteriscus 
(Michaud) = pellucida (Risso) is another variety. Issel, Ann. Mus. 
Genov, xi. p. 426. 
Ballia persica, sp. n., E. A. Smith, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 730, pi. xlvi. fig. 11, 
Bushire, Persian Gulf. 
Olividje. 
Oliva. H. 0. Weinkadpf has concluded his monograph of this genus, 
including Olivella, bringing up the number of described species to 163, 
in Kiister’s Conch. Cab. part 268, pp. 121-172, pis. xxxiv.-xxxix. ; the 
greater part of the descriptions and figures are copied from Sowerby's 
Thes. Conch., no new or previously unfigured species is contained in it. 
Weinkauff also gives a list of the known species, with synonyms, quota- 
tions of figures, and indication of localities, including also Agaronia ; 
JB. mal. Ges. v. pp. 108-123. 
Olivella (Swains.) : list of the known species (51) with same indications 
(see Oliva) t and three subdivisions ; Dactyliola, type nana (Lam.), 
Olivella s. str., type nivea (Gmel.), and Olivina (Orb.). Weinkauff, JB. 
mal. Ges. v. pp. 123-130. 
Ancillaria. Weinkauff has published a monograph of this genus in 
Kuster’s Conch. Cab., parts 269 & 273, pp. 1-44, pis. i.-xii., describing and 
figuring 49 known species ; many figures are copied from Reeve’s Conch. 
Icon. 
Fasciolariid^. 
Fusus bruijni, sp. n., Tapparone-Canefri, Ann. Mus. Genov, viii. [1876], 
p. 323, Geelvink Bay, New Guinea. 
Fusus P ahnormis, sp. n., E. A. Smith, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 811, pi. 1. fig. 10, 
Andaman Islands [looks something like a Nassa]. 
Boreofusus, g. n., for Fusus herniciensis (King), on account of the 
radula, in which the lateral plates are broad and many-toothed, as in 
Fasciolaria. Sars, Moll. arct. Norveg. p. 278, pi. xiv. fig. 2; radula, 
pi. X. fig. 26 ; operculum, pi. xviii. fig. 56, Finmark, 50-80 fath. 
Tudicula inermis, sp. n., Angas, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 610, Singapore ?. 
Latirus crenulatus (Kien., nee Reeve), Tapparone-Canefri, Ann. Mus. 
Genov, vii. [1875], p. 1029, Aru Islands. 
Latirus cayohuesonicuSf sp. n., Sowerby, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 796, pi. xlviii. 
fig. 4, Key West. 
Latirus decoratus (A. Adams) and fastigium (Reeve), from Andaman 
Islands, E. A. Smith, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 812, pi. 1. figs. 11 & 12. 
Meyeria [see among the Mu rigid.®]. 
Mitridj:. 
Mitra tricolor (Gmel.), var. n. pallida, Issel, Ann. Mus. Genov, xi. p. 419, 
woodcut, Isola dei Cani, Mediterranean Sea. 
Mitra wrighti, sp. n., Crosse, J. de Conch, p. 57, pi. i. fig. 1, Japan. 
