CANTHARIDUS. 127 



'Columella is crimson. There is an umbilical tract of tessellated piuk 

 and white. 



The following form does not. seem to me to differ specifically, 

 although its color-pattern of whitish flames on a coral-red ground 

 _give typical examples quite a distinct aspect. 



Var RAMBURi Crosse. PI. 45, fig. 40. 



Shell imperforate, pointed conical, solid, crimson with narrow 

 radiating whitish flames on the upper surface, usually extending to 

 the periphery, and an umbilical tract of red and white tessellated ; 

 spire lengthened, apex subacute, sutures subimpressed ; whorls about 

 7, concave below the sutures, convex and swollen at the periphery 

 and on the lower edge of each whorl of the spire; whole surface 

 finely spirally lirate, the lirre about as wide as the interstices, which 

 are delicately obliquely striate ; aperture oval-quadrate, iridescent 

 within, less than half the length of shell ; peristome edged by a row 

 •of crimson dots, with a porcellanous internal thickening which is 

 iinely crenulate ; columella vertical, slightly arcuate, pearly. 



Alt. 13, diam. 8; alt. IH, diam. 12 mill. 



S. Australian Coasts. 



T. ramburi Crosse, Jouru. de Conchyl., 1864, p. 342, t. 13, f 3. — 

 Fischer, Coq. Viv., p. 409, t. 120, f. 3. — T. pulcherrlmas Wood, 

 var. Philippi, Conchyl. Cab., p. 295, t. 43, f 11. 



Typically of a coral-red or crimson color, flammulate above with 

 whitish. Fully adult examples often show the light flames only 

 upon the upper whorls. 



C. EROGATus Fischer. PL 40, fig. 69. 



Shell conic-elongate, spire acute ; whorls 7-8, the first eroded, 

 iridescent, the rest planulate, submarginate below, smooth, encircled 

 by 3-4 slightly impressed lines, ornamented with minute dots ar- 

 ranged into radiating flames ; last whorl carinated, concentrically 

 striate beneath ; aperture rhomboidal, columella subtruncate below. 



Alt. 19, diam. 14 mill. (Fischer.) 



Australia f 



T. erogatus Fischer, Coq. Viv., p. 128, t. 45, £ 1. — T. indistindus 

 KiENER, Species, etc., t. 45, f 1. (Not T. indistinctus Wood, Ind. 

 Test., suppl., t. 6, f 41.)— Philippi, Conchyl. Cab., p. 293, t. 43, f. 

 7. — Ziziphinus indistindxLs Reeve, Conch. Icon. f. 35. ? 



