instances they are wanting. The shell has a brown epi- 
dermis; and is so well figured by Lister, nearly 140 years 
ago, that it is truly surprising no other writer has noticed 
it; although not common, it is by no means of great rarity. 
nee 
STROMBUS GRANULATUS. 
(Lot 736.) 
S. testd nodosd ; spird productd ; labii exterioris supra contracti mar- 
gine inflexo, ints granulato ; apertura nived. 
Shell nodulous ; spire produced; outer lip above contracted, mar- 
gin inflexed, within granulated; aperture snowy white. 
THE spire varies much in length; and the mouth, when in 
great perfection, is of a beautiful snowy white. 
STROMBUS MELASTOMUS. 
(Lot 812.) 
S. testd turrita ; anfractu basali fascis tribus nodulosis cincto ; labit 
extertoris antice lobati et attenuate lobo inflexo, margine nigro- 
castaneo, aperturd intus fulvd. 
Shell turreted ; basal volution with 3 nodulous bands. Outer lip 
above lobed (the lobe inflected), the tip attenuated, margin 
blackish chesnut; aperture within fulvous orange. 
THE geographical situation of this species, joined to the 
inferior considerations of size and colour, offers a better dis- 
tinction from the Strombus auris-Diane of authors, (which, 
in every other character, it closely resembles,) than any 
which arises from peculiarity of form ; but the latter species 
is confined to the Indian, and S. Melastomus to the Pacific 
Ocean, while, both in size and colour, they strikingly differ. 
