Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean ...

58 COLLECTIONS FROM MELANESIA.50. Natica (Mamma) cumingiana.Natica cumingiana, Eecluz, Reeve, Conch. Icon. figs. 13 fi, h ;Philippi,Con. -Cab. p. 47, pi. 7. fig. 5.Var. = Natica powisiana, Itechtz, Reeve, I. c. figs. 22 a, b; Fhilippi, I. c.p. 4G, pi. 7. fig. 4.Var.=Natica draparnaudi, Recluz, Journ. de Conch, vol. ii. pi. 5. fig.11 ; Reeve, I. c. figs. 44 a, b.Hah. Port Molle, Queensland.The only specimen from this locality is half-grown, white, with abroad and gradually enlarging band of a rich brown colour roundthe body-whorl, with another narrower yellowish one beneath thesuture, and a third, also of a yellowish tint, bordering the carinacircumscribing the umbilicus ; this is less open than in the adultshell figured by Reeve.51. Eulima martinii, var.A. Adams, Thes. Conch, pi. 109. fig. 5; Sotverby, Conch. Icon. fig. 6.Shell elongate-pyramidal, slightly recurved and laterally flexuoustowards the apex, white, rather transparent behind the varices(perhaps due to the youth of the specimen), which are in a singleoblique series from the labrum upwards. Whorls very slightlyconvex, eleven remaining in the single shell under examination,which may not be full-grown ; apical ones broken off. Outlines ofthe spire for the most part rectilinear, but a little contracted nearthe summit, thus giving the shell a somewhat club-shaped appearance.Last whorl broad, indistinctly obtusely angled at the periphery.Aperture pyriform, oblique. Outer lip prominent near themiddle, feebly sinuated above. Columella arcuate, thickened witha reflexed callosity which joins the upper termination of the labrum.Length 19 millim., diam. 7 ; aperture h\ long, 3^ wide.Hah. Warrior Reef, Torres Straits, on a bottom of pearl-shells(Avieida marr/aritifera) {Coppinger); China Sea (^Adams); DarnleyIsland, Torres Straits {Brazier).This is as broad a shell as E. martinii of A. Adams, and is solelydistinguished by the greater height of the whorls. Having butone specimen (and that probably not adult) to base an opinionupon, it would be unwise to hold it distinct on account of thissingle difference. Sowerby gives the locality of this species " St.Helena," which is unsupported by any authority and almost certainlya mistake.52. Strombus campbelli.Gray, Griffith's An. Kim/., Moll. pi. 25. fig. C ; Sotverby, Thes.Conch, pi. 6. figs. 22, 23 ;Reeve, Conch. Icon. fig. 45 ; Chenu,Manuel, tig. 1600.Hah. Port Denisou (4 fms,). Port Molle, and Friday Island,