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T. DIMIDIATA, Linn. PI. 1, figs. 13, 4. 



Reddish orange, banded with oblong spots on a white ground, 

 sutural band orange-red ; upper whorls longitudinally plicate, 

 lower ones smooth. Length, 3-5-5 inches. 



Singapore, Philippines, Central Polynesia. 



T. splendens, Desh. (fig. 4), from the China Sea, appears to be 

 a small variety, the figure being natural size. 



T. MACULATA, Linn. PI. 1, figs. 9, 10. 



Flesh-white, broadly banded with fawn-color, the bands often 

 broken up into oblong, close markings, with a band of longitu- 

 dinal black-purple strigations next the sutures, and below it a 

 second much smaller band of spots or hieroglyphic markings ; 

 early whorls often longitudinally plicate ; balance smooth. 



Length, 4'5-6'5 inches. 



Moluccas, Australia, Philippines Central Polynesia. 



Sometimes a spiral impressed line divides off' as a sutural 

 band, the upper row of strigations. 



The Polynesians eat the animal, and use the shell shaped to a 

 chisel in making canoes. 



T. MUSCARIA, Lam. PI. 1, fig. 12. 



Yellowish white, with a row of oblong bright chestnut spots 

 on a sutural band, and two (on the body-whorl three) similar 

 rows below it ; the spots are smaller and more widely separated 

 than in the preceding species, and the form of the shell is nar- 

 rower. Length, 3-6 inches. 



Japan, Philippines Central Polynesia. 



Mr. Tapparone-Canefri's variety callichloros is founded on a 

 narrow, brightly colored specimen figured by Quoy in the Voy. 

 Astrolabe ; there is no good reason for giving it a name. 



T. CONSORS, Hinds. PL 3, figs. 32-34. 



Shell smooth, the sutural band distinct and obsoletely plicate ; 

 whitish, with light chestnut obliquely longitudinal flames, inter- 

 rupted on the periphery of the last whorl, below which they 

 sometimes coalesce into a broad revolving band. 



Length, 2*75 inches. Society Islands. 



T. uirginea, Desh. (fig. 33), and T. glabra, Desh. (fig. 34), are 

 both described from worn specimens in which the coloring is no 



