38 TROCHUS. 



T. TEXTiLis Reeve. PL 42, fig. 7, 



Shell excavately umbilicated, rather broadly conoid, pinkish- 

 brown, sparingly speckled with black ; whorls concavely flattened, 

 finely spirally granulated, basal margin rounded ; base rather con- 

 cave, ridged, ridges smooth, alternately larger, profusely dotted 

 with purple-red. {Reeve.) Cape of Good Hope (Reeve.) 



T. textilis Reeve, Conch Icon., f. 82. (1861.) 



Of a sombre rose-brown hue, freckled with an irregular network 

 of black, the base of the shell being profusely dotted with a rich 

 purple-red. (Reeve.) 



Known to me only by Reeve's description and figure. The local- 

 ity is doubtful. 

 T. VENETUS Reeve. PI. 7, figs. 69, 74. 



Shell false-umbilicate, conical, thick, ornamented with wide green- 

 ish and purplish longitudinal streaks ; whorls 7 to 8, the first eroded, 

 the following sj^irally lirate, the lirse granose, numbering five on the 

 penultimate whorl, the upper ridge large, composed of oblique, oblong 

 tubercles, the lower ridges narrow ; last whorl angulated, planulate 

 beneath, with 5 to 6 concentric narrow lirse; aperture subquadrate, 

 lirate within ; basal margin thickened ; columella oblique, without 

 teeth, contorted above ; umbilical area funnel-shaped, with a single 

 spiral funicle. Alt. 31, dam. 31 mill. (Fischer.) 



Moluccas (Reeve.) 



T. venetus Reeve, Conch. Icon., 1862, t. xvi, f 99a, 99b.— Fischer, 

 Coq. Viv., p. 348, t. 109, f. 3. 



A species allied in form, sculpture and coloration to the group of 

 T. flammulatus or T. radiatus, but without teeth on the columella. 

 T. CHLOROMPHALUS A, Adams. PI. 12, figs. 62-65. 



Shell false-umbilicate, thick, conoid, apex acute ; whorls 8, the 

 first yellowish, the following planulate, greenish, ornamented with 

 flexuous brown lines ; separated by a slightly impressed suture, 

 spirally cingulate, the penultimate whorl with about 7 granose un- 

 equal ridges, the upper two large, third and. fifth smaller ; last whorl 

 carinated, plano-concave beneath, with 7 concentric lirse, slightly or 

 not at all granulose, sepat;ated by obliquely striated interstices ; aper- 

 ture rhomboidal, grooved within, the basal margin subcrenate ; col- 

 umella oblique, folded above, compressed in the middle and toothless; 

 umbilical area funnel-shaped, like an umbilicus ; bordered with in- 

 tense green. Alt. 19, diam. 22 mill. (Fischer.) 



Japanese Seas ; Nagasaki. (Lischke.) 



