468 FUNAFUTI ATOLL. 
Taken by Garrett at Fiji, Samoa, Cook’s, Society, and Paumotu 
Groups. 
TURRICULA NODOSA, Swainson. 
Tryon, loc. cit., p. 193, pl. lvi., figs. 638-641 ; Garrett, loc. cit., pp. 
6, 53. 
One dead specimen from Funafuti. 
Garrett records this from Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Gilberts, Carolines, 
Cook’s, Society, Paumotus, and Hawaii. Melvill and Standen 
observe it from the Loyalties.* There is an example in this Museum 
from Niue. 
TURRICULA PILSBRYI, sp. nov. 
(Fig. 40). 
Shell fusiform. Colour orange-buff, with a rosy apex. Whorls 
five, plus the protoconch. Sculpture—on the last whorl are six 
roundly swelling arcuate ribs, which arise at the suture and 
terminate at the basal constriction, but dis- 
appear on the final half whorl; the anti- 
penultimate has thirteen ribs. On ascending 
the spire, the ribs become comparatively more 
prominent, and on the earliest whorl are 
sharply constricted and angled at their upper 
third. On each whorl they alternate with 
those above and below. Between the ribs 
appear delicate and  evenly-spaced, spiral 
grooves, Seven or eight broad, close, flat- 
topped lyrze are obliquely wound around the 
base. Protoconch two-whorled, globose, pro- 
jecting on the right side, smooth ; anteriorly 
a spiral groove forecasts the constriction of a 
later whorl. In the unique specimen the lip 
is broken. The columella bears a tubercle at 
the posterior angle, it is then excavated ; the 
Fig. 40. moderately straight pillar carries four, con- 
spicuous, projecting plaits; a callus is spread 
over the preceding whorl. The throat is on its outer wall 
corrugated by a dozen raised spiral lines. Length 6, breadth 23 
mm. 
Taken by the tangles hauled up on the outer western slope of 
the atoll, in eighty to forty fathoms, associated with Gorgonide, 
Thetidos, ete. 
This species is a member of the subgenus Pusia, and seems 
well defined by the uniform colour, smooth, wave-like ribs, and 
basal constriction. 
* Melvill & Standen—Loc. cit., viii., p. 103. 
