SOLIDULA. 143 



Var. cocciNATA Keeve. PI. 20A, figs. 40, 41. 



Large, with short, concave-sided spire ; white, profusely sprinkled 

 with scarlet dots. 



Cagayan, Mindanao, Philippines, in 25 fms. (Cuming). 



Tornatella coccinataJiY'E.f'P. Z. S. 1842, p. 60; Conch. Syst. ii, 

 pi. 206, f. 10; Conch. Icon, xv, f. 1. 



Has been reported by Cooke (Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), xvii, p. 128) 

 from Suez. 



S. SULCATA Gmelin. PI. 20A, figs. 39, 46, 47, 48. 



Shell solid, oval, with short conical spire and large body-whorl. 

 Surface spirally grooved throughout, the grooves rather shallow, 

 separated by wider intervals on the median part of the body-whorl, 

 about 21 in number. White, closely speckled and checkered in anir- 

 recjular, ragged -pattern toith mingled raivny and black. Aperture 

 narrow and long, heavily calloused within; columella bearing a 

 large, squarish, entering bifid fold, the parietal wall above it armed 

 with a smaller transverse fold, above which are usually several smaller 

 denticles. 



Alt. 23, diam. 12 mill. (Negros, Philippines). 



Alt. 16, diam. 8 mill. (Singapore). 



Negros, Philippines (Cuming) ; Seychelles, Mauritius and Red 

 Sea (Martens) ; Palm Island, N.-E. Australia ; Sue and Darnley Is., 

 Torres Sts. ; Anse Vata, vr. Noumea, N. Caledonia (Brazier); 

 Singapore (Archer.) ; Tahiti. 



Voluta sulcata Gmel., Syst. Nat. (13), p. 3436. — Tornatella punc- 

 tata Fer., Tab. Syst, p. 108. — Tor}iatella glabra Reeve, P. Z. S. 

 1842, p. 60 ; Conch. Syst. ii, pi. 206, f. 12 ; Conch. Icon, xv, pi. 1,. 

 f. 4. — Solidula glabra Ad., P. Z. S. 1854, p. 61. — Buccinulus glaber 

 Brazier, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii, p. 76. — Tornatella 

 sulcata Martens, in Mobius' Reise nach INIauritius, p. 302. 



This species is subject to great mutations of form, size and color- 

 ing. The smallest before me are from Tahiti, measuring 12 milL 

 in alt, having very little tawny coloring ; a blackish or ashy speckl- 

 ing predominates. 



The ragged, bicolored markings, and the (usual) plurality of 

 parietal teeth, as well as the wider spacing of the grooves about the 

 median part of the large whorl, are all characters easily sundering 

 this species from the foregoing. The spiral grooves are distinctly 

 l^itted on the spire. 



