19B TURBO. 



T. ARTENsis Montrouzier, 1860. PI. 45, figs. 96, 97. 



Shell oval or subrhomboidal in outline, ventricose, solid, imperfor- 

 ate, covered with a strong olivaceousepiderrais; spire short, acute; 

 sutures subcanaliculate ; whorls 5-6, convex, with sj^iral lirje which 

 are narrower than their interstices, and number 11-12 on the body- 

 whorl, grooves closely radiately lamellar striate, with a central 

 riblet; aperture ovate, augulate above and below, white within; 

 columella flattened, wide, effiise at base. Alt. 65, diam. 60 mill. 



Ins Art, Neiv Caledonian Archipelafio. 



Operculum slightly concave within, castaneous, Avith 3 whorls, 

 the nucleus situated at one-third the distance across the face; outside 

 white, convex, center obsoletely granulose, outer part obliquely 

 striate. 



T. FUNicuLOSUs Kiener. PI. 48, fig. 33. 



Shell ovate-ventricose, solid, imperforate ; spire short, acute, whorls 

 5, convex; sutures canaliculate; spirally Urate; body-whorl large Avith 

 unequal line and one or two intermediate lirulje in the interstices; 

 aperture ovate, silvery within, peristome greenish, somewhat fluted; 

 columella dilated and produced at the base ; color chestnut-olive, 

 maculated and tessellated with white. Alt. 48, diam. 49 mill. 



Habitat unknou'U. 



I have not seen this form, which Fischer compares with setosus 

 und artensis. In coloration it is similar to T. fluctuosus ; and Car- 

 penter has identified it with doubt with that species. 



T. JAPONicus Reeve, 1848. PI. 44, fig. 81 ; PI. 48, fig. 41. 



"Shell ovate, imperforated, rather thin, somewhat inflated; whorls 

 smooth, spirally ribbed, ribs sometimes prominent and regulai", some- 

 times rather flattened and very irregular; fawn-yellow, variously 

 stained and blotched with red, interior silvered." (Reeve.) 



Reeve confounded two forms in his illustrations and diagnosis of 

 this species: One of his figures, (pi. ix, fig. 336. of the Conchologia 

 Iconica) is the young of T. cornidus Ginel.; the other, (pi. viii, fig. 

 33, of the Iconica) precedes this on his plates, and has been recogni- 

 zed by Kiener and by Fischer as the real T. Jajwnieus. Under these 

 circumstances I am compelled to place in the synonymy Sowerby's 

 T. reriiiciis, which he founds upon shells which are (teste Sowerby, 

 Thes. Cb?zc/(., p. 197.) identical with Reeve's first figure of T.japoni- 

 cus. According to Sowerby the species is from Mauritius, not Ja])aii. 

 The following is Sowerby's description. 



