184 DRILLIA. 
D. ErosA, Schrenck. PI. 12, fig. 39. 
Shell longitudinally ribbed and spirally striated, a riarrow 
band at the suture; brown, with sometimes a darker band at the 
suture and another at the base. L. 17, diam. 6 mill. 
Gulf of Tartary, Japan. 
D. mpaces, Adams and Reeve. PI. 10, fig. 73. 
Shell flexuously, narrowly ribbed or plicate, the plicx extend- 
ing to the suture, but not prominent; yellowish brown. 
Length, 36 mill. 
China Sea. 
This species has not been recognized by any conchologist 
subsequent to its publication in the Voyage of the Samarang ; 
it is more like Clionella than any other of the group. 
D. Nov#-ZELANDIA, Reeve. PI. 12, figs. 44, 42. 
Shell spirally sulcate and longitudinally striate, the suture 
slightly impressed, marginate and suberenulate; sinus rather 
broad and shallow; rose-ash color, purple-rose within the aper- 
ture. Length, 1 inch. 
New Zealand. 
First described by Quoy under the name of rosea (fig. 42)— 
preoccupied by Sowerby, changed by Deshayes to Quoyt, pre- 
occupied by Desmoulins. 
D. piena, EH. A. Smith. 
Shell ovately fusiform, bluish ash under a thin light olivaceous 
epidermis ; whorls nine, slightly convex, with 13-14 oblique 
longitudinal ribs, forming nodules on the periphery ; aperture 
brown, bifasciate with white, the lip thin, white-margined, with 
a small sinus; columella callous towards the base; canal rather 
short and wide. L. 26, diam. 9 mill. 
California. 
I am not acquainted with this species; it is unfigured. 
D. MonTEREYENSIS, Stearns. Pl. 12, fig. 30. 
Shell similar in form to D. torosa, but smaller, the longitudinal 
nodules and short ribs number 14 to 15 on each whorl, with 
rather coarse inconspicuous revolving striz, there are also 
indistinct puckerings at the suture of the spire-whorls; dark 
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