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Show 1879.] MR. E. A. SMITH ON MOLLUSCA FROM JAPAN. 207 58. COLUMBELLA SCRIPTA, Lamarck. Columbella scripta, Kiener, Coq. Viv. p. 50, pi. 6. f. 3, 3a. Columbella versicolor, Sowerby, Thesaurus, f. 41-46; Reeve; Conch. Icon. f. 51a, b. Columbella variegata, Menke, Synops. p. 65. Columbella bidentata, Menke, Moll. Novae Hollandiae, p. 23; Sowb. Thes. f. 53, 54 ; Reeve, f. 205. Hab. Station 8*. This species has a wide geographical range, having been recorded from the Philippine Islands, North and South Australia, Annaa Island, and New Caledonia. 59. COLUMBELLA SAGENA, Reeve. Columbella sagena, Reeve, Conch. Icon. fig. 162; Lischke, Jap. Meeres-Conch. i. p. 58, iii. p. 34, pi. 2. f. 5-7. Hab. Stations 8* and 18. The variation of this species has been already remarked upon by Lischke. The epidermis, which is generally for the most part worn off when the shell arrives at maturity, is of a dull olivaceous colour and finely lamellated, the lamella? being perpendicular and close together. 60. COLUMBELLA UNDATA, Duclos. Columbella undata, Duclos, Monograph, pi. 4. f. 4; Kiener, pi. 9. f. 1, pi. 12. f. 3 ; Lischke, iii. pi. 2. f. 1-4. Hab. Stations 8* and 29. 61. COLUMBELLA MISERA, Sowerby. Columbella misera, Sowerby, Thesaurus, fig. Ill; Reeve, Conch. Icon. fig. 68 ; Lischke, i. p. 59, ii. p. 48, iii. p. 35, pi. 2. f. 10, 11. Hab. Station 8*. Nagasaki (Lischke) ; Sandwich Islands (Pease and Martens). The number of costae in this species is considerably variable, there being in some specimens fifteen on the last whorl, whilst in others there are but ten. A pretty constant character of the painting consists of the upper half of the whorls being unspotted, and the costae on that portion opaque snow-white. 62. COLUMBELLA (ATILIA) LISCHKEI. (Plate XX. fig. 41.) Shell fusiform, narrow, dirty white, blotched at intervals with olive-brown. Whorls 8 ; two apical smooth, globose, rather large, the one or two following longitudinally strongly costate ; ribs thick, with a thin vitreous upper margin ; the remaining volutions a trifle convex, smooth, with minute striations or lines of growth ; the last suddenly contracted below the middle, where it is obtusely angulated, sculptured at the caudal extremity with about eight narrow oblique sulci or striae. Aperture small, indistinctly quadrangular, occupying rather more than one third of the entire length; outer lip with a |