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Show 1879.] MR. E. A. SMITH ON MOLLUSCA FROM JAPAN. 183 Station 26. West of Nagasaki, 32° 43' N. lat., 129° 28' E. long.; 40-58 fathoms. Station 27. North of Kiushiu, 33° 56' N. lat., 130° 27' E. long.; 30 fathoms. Station 28. Satsuma Bay, south Kiushiu. Station 29. South of Korea, 34° 8' N. lat., 126° 24' E. long.; 24 fathoms. Station 30. South of Korea, 33° 42' N. lat., 127° 40' E. long.; 51 fathoms. Station 31. South of Korea, 34° 30' N. lat., 125 °44' E. long.; 20 fathoms. Station 32. South of Korea, 34° 19' N . lat., 124° 57' E. long.; 12 fathoms. GASTROPODA. 1. TEREBRA EVOLUTA, Deshayes. Terebra evoluta, Deshayes, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 292 ; Reeve, Conch. Icon. xii. f. 55. Hab. Station 8. Like the specimens which were mentioned by m e in the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History' 1875, these also from the Goto Islands are much smaller than the type, which seems to be of very unusual dimensions. The Goto specimens differ from the type and the others from Matoza Harbour in having a much narrower sulcus at the upper part of the whorls, from which circumstance the infrasutural band is broader. The colouring and sculpture are the same. 2. TEREBRA GOTOENSIS. (Plate XIX. figs. 1-1 a.) Shell subulate, pale brown or fawn-colour, with a white band spotted with brown at the upper part of the whorls, and with a white narrow zone round the middle of the last whorl: volutions 16; the two apical ones white, smooth, subglobose, the rest almost flat, only very faintly constricted towards the upper part, where they are unequally divided by a transverse shallow groove, longitudinally ribbed and very finely striated, the striae being inconspicuous to the naked eye and scarcely developed at all on the ribs ; the latter are but little raised, arcuate, and divided at the upper part by the spiral furrow, and number about 24 on the penultimate whorl; costa? on the last volution obsolete at the periphery : columella white, oblique at the base, straightish at the upper part; canal short, recurved, oblique. Length 25 millims., diameter 5. Variety. Shell more slender, similarly sculptured; spots on infrasutural band dark brown ; rest of surface purplish brown, variegated with white patches. Length 29 millims. ; breadth 4§. (Fig. 1 a.) Hab. Station 1. Var., Japan. The brown spots on the white zone at the top of the whorls are somewhat distant from one another, of a transversely oblong subquadrate form. Below these are other less conspicuous spots placed |