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Show 1879.] MR. E. A. SMITH ON MOLLUSCA FROM JAPAN. 213 76. CORALLIOPHILA JEFFREVSII. (Plate XX. fig. 48.) Shell shortly fusiform, reddish brown, transverse ridges, especially at the middle of the whorls, white : whorls probably 8 ; the six that are left acutely angular at the middle, spirally deeply sulcated, leaving very prominent ridges between the sulci, longitudinally obsoletely plicate ; the lira? are six in number on the penultimate whorl, the third from the base being tbe most prominent, forming the angles, acutely produced on crossing the plicae, and closely, rather coarsely imbricately scaled ; last whorl encircled with sixteen lirae, with the scales on some of the lower ones remarkably thickened and prominent, terminated with a large prominent scaled ridge. Aperture bluish within, with the canal equal to the spire, internally finely Urate; canal short, very oblique and recurved; columella straightish at the upper part. Length 20 millims., diam. 10. Hab. Station 22. This species is much of the same type as Murex lamellosus of Philippi. It differs from it, however, in colour, the deeper sulci, and the greater angulation of the whorls. The location of it in the genus Coralliophila is only provisional. The sculpture is just of the character which frequently obtains in many species of that genus ; but the brownish red colour is unusual. 77. PURPURA BRONNI, Dunker. Purpura bronni, Dunker, Moll. Jap. pi. 1. f. 23; Lischke, Jap. M.-Conch, i. p. 53, pi. 5. f. 17. Hab. Station 4. Nagasaki and Decima (Lischke and Dkr.); Tatiyama (A. Adams). 78. PURPURA ALVEOLATA, Reeve. Purpura alveolata, Con. Icon. iii. fig. 60; Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1875, vol. xv. P. clavigera, Kiister, Con. Cab. pi. 31a. f. 1 ; Lischke, Jap. Meer.- Conch. i. p. 54, pi. 5. f. 12-14, part ii. p. 39. Hab. Station 4. Nagasaki (Lischke). The habitat "Panama," originally assigned to this species, is evidently incorrect. 79. SISTRUM UNDATUM, Chemnitz. Murex undatus, Chem. Con. Cab. xi. p. 124, f. 1851-2. Murex margariticola, Broderip, P.Z. S. 1832, p. 177 ; Reeve, Con. Icon. iii. f. 178. y&r,-]licinulafiscellum, Reeve (not Murexfiscellum, Chemnitz), Con. Icon. iii. f. 28. Hab. Station 4. . This species is very widely distributed. It has been recorded from Lord Hood's island and New Caledonia, besides Japan ; and in the British Museum there are specimens from Swan River, Port Essington (Jukes), Andaman Islands (Captain Wilmer), Singapore |