T E R E B R A . 



Plate II. 



Species 5. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Terebra strigata. Ter. testa subobeso-sidndatd, pon- 

 derosd, versus basin robustd, spadiceo-lacted, rufo-brun- 

 neo conspicue ampliter strigata, anfractibus convexo- 

 planatis, primis dense plicato-costatis, ceteris subru- 

 gosis, costis evanidis, sulco subobsoleto medio divisis ; 

 aperturd ovatd, columella crassd subconstrictd. 



The streaked Terebra. Shell rather stoutly subulate, 

 heavy, robust towards the base, fawn-cream-colour, 

 conspicuously largely streaked with red-brown, whorls 

 convexly flattened, the first closely plicately ribbed, 

 the rest somewhat rough, with the ribs faded away, 

 divided round the middle with a rather obsolete 

 groove ; aperture ovate, columella thick, somewhat 

 constricted. 



Sowerby, Tankerville Catalogue, App. p. 25. 

 Terebra elongala, Wood. 

 Terebra jlammea, Lesson. 

 Terebra zebra, Kiener. 



/fab. Panama, Galapagos and Philippine Islands; Cum- 

 ing. Moluccas, etc. 



With a widely extended and somewhat peculiar range 

 of geographical distribution, this species is quite au iso- 

 lated one in the genus ; and its differences of habitat are 

 not marked by any corresponding differences in the shell. 



Species 6. (Fig. a, b, Mus. Cuming.) 

 Terebra crenclata. Ter. testa acute tumid, spadiceo- 

 lacted, livido-fuscescente plus minus tinctd, lineis cas- 

 taneis infra suiuras jtmbriatd, et sparsim castaneo 

 punctato-fasciatii ', anfractibus planatis, lavibus, versus 

 apicem confertim plicato-liratis, tuberculis undique co- 

 ronatis ; aperturd breviusculd, columella vix contortd. 



The cren'Ulated Terebra. Shell sharply turreted, 

 fawn-cream-colour, more or less faintly stained with 

 livid-brown, frilled with chestnut lines below the 

 sutures, and sparsely dot-banded with chestnut, 

 whorls flattened, closely plicately ridged towards the 

 apex, coronated throughout with tubercles, smooth ; 

 aperture rather short, columella scarcely twisted. 



Buccinum crenulatum, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. p. 1205. 

 Terebra crenulata, Lamarck. 

 Terebra fimbriata, Deshayes. 



Ilab, Molucca and Pacific Islands. 



This species is also an isolated one in the genus, in- 

 cluding M. Deshayes's M. fimbriata, represented at Fig. 

 G a, in which I see no difference beyond a richer display 

 of colour. 



Species 7. (Mus. Cuming.) 

 Terebra Dussumieri. Ter. testa elongate siibulatd, sub- 

 angustd, grised, f/dvo-fuscescente late fasciatd, anfrac- 

 tibus dense longitudinaliter plicato-liratis, liris sitperne 

 obsoletis, sulco divisis; aperturd oblougd, columella 

 subrectd. 

 Dussumier's Terebra. Shell elongately subulate, ra- 

 ther narrow, grey, broadly banded with fulvous- 

 brown, whorls closely longitudinally plicately ridged, 

 ridges obsolete on the upper part of the whorls, di- 

 vided off by a groove ; aperture oblong, columella ra- 

 ther straight. 

 Kiener, Icon. Coq. vivantes, p. 31. pi. 8. f. 17. 

 Hah. Island of Haynan, China ; Humphreys. 



Allied to T. duplicata, but distinguished from that 

 species by a peculiar rubbed appearance in places, more es- 

 pecially round the upper part of the whorls ; and there is 

 no indication of the encircling fillet of purple spots. 



February, 1860. 



