182 PUSTA. 



Described from a specimen in the Hanley collection. Three 

 examples, without locality, are also in the collection of the 

 Philadelphia Academy. 



T. SPRETA, A. Ad. PL 54, fig. 555. 



Light yellowish brown. Length, '25 inch. 



Japan. 



A juvenile shell. It is not at all probable that it is distinct 

 from one of the previously described species : julgin- from the 

 figure it could be safely referred to any one of 1m If M, dozen 

 species, including the last. 



T. ROSEOCAUDATA, Han ley. PI. 54, fig. 556. 



Light yellowish brown. Length, '2 inch. 



Habitat unknown. 



Probably a starved, rugose, young specimen of T. cadawrosa. 



T. LATERCULATA, Sowb. PI. 54, fig. 557. 



Yellowish brown, with a central band, bordered on each side 



by a row of brown spots. Length, '7 inch. 



Habitat ///////<>////. 

 T. ZELOTYPA, Reeve. PL 54, fig. 558. 



Alternately banded with }^ellowish brown and white. 

 Length, 1 inch. 



Habitat unknown. 



Section Pusia, Swainson. 



Shell small, ovate, more or less ribbed or nodulous ; spire 

 usually -short, convex, with obtuse apex; outer lip sometimes 

 thickened. 



T. DERMESTINA, Lam. PL 54, figs. 559-566. 



Chestnut or chocolate-brown more or less spotted with yellow- 

 ish white on the ribs, with a superior interrupted white band and 

 an inferior narrower one. Length, '75 inch. 



West Indies ; Paumotus ; Sandwich Islands ; Red Sea ? 



The West Indian habitat of this species is established by 

 Morch, Krebs, Swift, etc. ; the Paumotus are given on the 

 authority of Hugh Cuming ; Mr. Pease reports it from the 

 Sandwich Islands, M' Andrew from the Red Sea. Probably the 

 latter is a mistaken identification ; but specimens from the two 

 oceans are alike and cannot be specifically distinguished. The 



