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Show 282 MR. E. A. SMITH ON THE [Apr. 1, vel lilaceo tincta, rufo punctata ; anfractus 5, vix convexiusculi, liris quinque, oblique granosis cincti, ultimus ad peripheriam acute angulatus, plerumque lilaceus, concentrice sulcatus et cingu-latus, cingulo circa umbilicum maximo, for titer crenato, cceteris quoque plus minus crenulatis vel subquadrate granulatis ; apertura trapeziformis, ad columellam bicanaliculata. Diam. max. l3 millim., alt. 6|. The lirae on the upper surface, which do not vary much in size, are cut across by deep oblique lines of growth, so that the granules have an oblique appearance. Those on the ridges of the under surface are squarer, as the incremental striae are radiating. The granules on the stout lira bordering the umbilicus are much the coarsest, those on the other ridges becoming finer the more remote they are from the centre. This species has less convex whorls than <S. granulatum, Lamarck, from the West Indies, not such a deep suture, and considerably finer granulation. It seems to be larger than the Mediterranean .8. moniliferum, Bronn l, to have a different kind of granules, and the aperture is distinctly channelled both at the lower and upper end of the columella. SOLARIUM HYBRIDUM, Linne. Hab. China Sea, Philippine and Malacca Islands, Java, Ceylon, Moreton Bay, Queensland, and New South Wales. In separating the Mediterranean from the Australian form of S. luteum under the name of S. conulus, Weinkauff2 appears to have been mainly influenced by difference of locality. The same might be done in the present instance, for this is, I believe, the first record of S. hybridum from the Atlantic Ocean. Onlv two small specimens are in the collection ; but these undoubtedly belong to this species, possessing all the characters of colouring and sculpture met with in eastern examples. SOLARIUM ARCHIT_E, Costa. Hab. Throughout the Mediterranean and in the Atlantic, off the coast of France and Portugal. This well-known Mediterranean species has not been previously recorded from so southern a locality as St. Helena. I have carefully examined the type of S. soverbii, Hanley, and agree, with Monte-rosato! and Jeffreys1, in considering it the same as this species. CypR_EA LURIDA, Linne'. This species, which occurs in the Mediterranean, at the Azores, the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, and on the African coast, as far as Guinea, has not been met with further south than St. Helena. It has also been recorded from Ascension Island by Lister, and was obtained there by Dr. Conry. Dunker has quoted it from Annabon Island. 1 Monterosato, Notizie Solarii Mediterr. p. 5. 2 Conch. Mittelmeer. vol. ii. p. 261. 3 Notizie Solarii Mediter. p. 11. 4 Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 39. |
