TEREBRA. 13 



T. PENICILLATA, Hinds. PI. 11, fig. 11. 



Stouter with more convex whorls than the preceding species, 

 the longitudinal chestnut lines crowded, much more numerous 

 than in T. lanceata. Length, 2 inches. 



Seychelles, Mauritius. 



Kiener figured both this and the succeeding varieties as T. 

 lanceata, and von Martens, in his " Conchology of Mauritius," has 

 recently so considered them : my material does not support this 

 view ; yet their substantial identity is not improbable. 



Yar. VENOSA, Hinds. PI. 11, figs. 12, 13. 



White, banded with light chocolate, with chestnut longitudinal 

 lines ; first whorls plicate, the others smooth, divided at the 

 upper part by a row of punctures ; sometimes all the whorls are 

 plicate. Length, 1-1-5 inches. Indian Ocean. 



Reeve remarks that " when plicately ribbed throughout, the 

 shell, like the granulated varieties of Cones, is smaller than when 

 it is smooth." One of these small, plicated shells has been 

 described by Deshayes as T. Crossei (fig. 13). When the shell 

 is plicate upon the lower whorls it appears to be the result of the 

 impression of the chestnut streaks, which form the interstices of 

 the plicae. 



T. BRAZIERI, Angas. PL 11. fig. 14. 



Narrow, smooth, first whorls plicate, the others somewhat 

 tumid or very shortly obsoletely plicate below the sutures ; 

 whitish, promiscuously longitudinally veined with chestnut, the 

 strigations more numerous on the upper part of the whorls ; 

 body-whorl with a white band on the peripher} T , and below it a 

 row of chestnut spots, sometimes coalescing into a chestnut 



band. Length, 1-1 '5 inches. 



New South Wales, Tasmania. 

 This is, perhaps, a variety of T. lanceata. 



T. ciRCUMCiNCTA, Deshayes. PL 11, figs. 8, 9. 



White, with a few irregular yellowish streaks ; whorls flatly 

 convex, with four to six equidistant, pricked, linear revolving 

 grooves. Length, 40 mill. 



Red Sea (Deshayes); Port Curtis, Australia (Stutchbury;. 



Reef e's figure (fig. 9) does not agree well with his description, 

 nor with the figure given by Deshayes. 



