TURBO. 197 



T. cernicns Sowerby, 1886, (pi. 44, fig. 81,) "Shell ovate conic, 

 solid, subventrieose, imperforate, yellowish, longitudinally flammulate 

 with reddish-brown ; spire acute, elevated; whorls convex sloping 

 above, minutely obliquely striate, encircled by wide flattened ribs, 

 alternating with smaller ; last whorl obtusely angulated above, 

 lightly depressed above the angle, scarcely canaliculate ; aperture 

 circular, lip acute, scalloped; columella thick, convex, slightly 

 arcuate and slightly produced at base, longitudinally plicated." 



"Operculum very convex outside, green, sufi^used with bright 

 reddish-brown, conspicuously granulose." Sowerby's figure, copied 

 on my plate, is two-thirds natural size. 



Specimens before me from Mauritius, of this species, are rather 

 smaller than Reeve's figure ; the broad flat ribs, apd brown opercu- 

 lum, conspicuously granulose in the middle, are the more prominent 

 characters. 



T. SPLEXDIDULUS Sowcrby, 1886. PI. 44, fig. 72. 



"Shell large, ventricose-conoid, imperforate, orange-brown, white 

 and lirown punctate and variegate ; si)ire small, acute, gradate ; 

 suture scarcely impressed ; whorls about 62, above concavo-planate, 

 then convex, longitudinally obliquely striate, spirally lirate, the 

 lira^ numerous, unequal, about 15 on penultimate whorl, the first 

 (subsutural ) prominent, subnodulose, brown and white articulated ; 

 base convex, smooth, subobsoletely sulcate. overspread by white 

 and dark brown maculations ; umbilical region with a white and 

 orange callus ; aperture subample, circular, throat silvery." (Soiver- 

 hy.) Habitat unhunvn. 



Described from a single specinien of unknown origin. 



T. L.T3TUS Philippi, 1848. PI. 44, fig. 75. 



Shell conoid, imperforate, spirally lirate, smooth, pale flesh 

 colored, painted with large radiating ferrugineous maculations; liroe 

 about nine in number on the body-whorl, alternately smaller, 

 the third nuich elevated forming an angle; lir^e of base slightly 

 elevated, white and black maculated ; columella surrounded by an 

 orange colored area; aperture sub-circular, silvery within. Alt. 6.S 

 mill. Habitat unknotim. 



T. ARGYROSTOMUS Linu., 1758. PI. 40, fig. 18; PL 42, fig. 41; 



PI. 46, fig. 8. 



Shell large, ovate-pointed, solid, whitish, irregularly maculated 

 with greenish and brown ; whorls 6, convex, separated by subcan- 

 aliculate sutures, the upper two smooth, the lower spirally lirate and 

 radiately more or less squamose striate, body-whorl Avitli about 

 thirteen liriie, which are generally wider than their interstices, and 

 of which the subcoronal and one or two median ones are more 



