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ing the columella edge. There is no notch at the junction of the 

 columella and basal lip. The outer lip is slightly crenulated by the 

 ribs on the outside. The ground-color is whitish or greenish ; the 

 purplish red radiating flammules ot the upj^er surface may be either 

 parallel with, and occupying the interstices of the ribs, or obliquely 

 crossing them ; sometimes the whole surface of the upper whorls is 

 suffused with purplish red or with sea green (a color which under- 

 lies the red all over) ; the base is radiately marked with dark red, 

 which forms continuous stripes, or is interrupted into small blocks 

 which articulate the line. Toward the aperture there is a green or 

 bluish tract. 



Alt .32, diam. 89 mill. ; Alt. 30, diam. 32 mill. 



Ceylon ; New Caledonia (Fischer) Sanchvich and Vitl Is. (Phil. 

 Acad, coll.) 



T. crenilerus Kiener, Sp. Coq. Viv., t. 34, f. 3 (sine desc.) 

 Fischer, Coq. Viv., p. 109, t. 34, f. 3. — T. eustephes Piiilippi, Zeit- 

 schr.f. Mai., 1849, p. 153, and Conchy I. Cab., p. 293, t. 43, f. 6. 



T. FLAMMULATU8 Lamarck. PI. 7, fig. 75 ; PI. 8, figs. 78, 79. 



General form similar to T. maculatus ; thick, solid, heavy; upper 

 surface longitudinally flammulate with dark red, the stripes distinct 

 and broad, about as wide as the intervening whitish spaces; the 

 stripes of the last whorl are continued over the obtuse periphery 

 upon the base, where they become narrower, often bifurcate, and 

 are zigzag. The sculpture above is like that of T. maculatus, the 

 rows of granules about five or six on each whorl and the lower ones 

 compressed, narrow ; there is, besides, a fine, superficial, secondary 

 scul{)ture of slightly oblique longitudinal minute wrinkles, which are 

 continued over the periphery u])on the base, forming there a finely 

 shagreened pattern by the intersection of fine incremental stride. 

 The base is rather more convex than in the typical maculatus, and 

 its outer portion is nearly free from spiral line. These number 

 about six; they are finely, closely crenulated by the wrinkles of the 

 surface. The outer lip of the aperture is not crenulated, the other 

 characters of the aj)erture and columella are precisely as in T. 

 creniferus. 



Alt. 37, diam. 37 mill. ; Alt. 42, diam. 38 mill. 



Seychelles ; Ins. Reunion, etc. 



T. flammulaius Lam., An. s. Vert., vii, p. 20. — Philippi, Conchyl. 

 Cab., p. 112, t. 18, f. 8— Fischer, Coq, Viv., p. 98, t. 27, f. 2. 



