TEREBRA. 21 



sutural band tuberculate, and with the plicae below it cut into a 

 couple of revolving rows of tubercles. Length, 28 mill. 



Habitat unknown. 

 Described from a unique specimen in the Cumingian Collection. 



T. COPULA, Hinds. PL 5, fig. 80. 



Chestnut or olive-brown, plications paler, sutural band with 

 oblique chestnut spots ; no revolving sculpture ; periphery with 

 two indistinct narrow white bands. Length, 35 mill. 



Guinea. 

 T. EXIGUA, Desh. PL 5, fig. 89. 



Shell chestnut or chocolate-brown, strongly latticed by close 

 sculpture ; sutural band distinctly marked ; aperture rather pro- 

 duced below. Length, 15-18 mill. 



E. Coast of Australia; Andaman Is. 



T. VENILTA, Tenison-Woods. PL 5, fig. 88. 



Yellowish white, zoned with a pale chestnut line ; whorls sub- 

 coronate, with narrow oblique curved plications, and more or 

 less indistinct fine spiral striae. ; subsutural area divided by a 

 punctate groove. Length, 42 mill. 



Port Jackson, N. S. Wales. 



T. ROSEATA, Adams and Reeve. PL 5, fig. 90. 



Interstices of the ribs linearly grooved, sutural band defined 

 by a punctate groove ; columella laminated, twisted ; rose-color. 



Length, 28 mill. 



Soolo and China Sea. 

 T. SWAINSONI, Deshayes. PL 5, fig. 81. 



Light roseate, nearly white on the sutural band, the interstices 

 of the ribs smooth, or obscurely striate, polished. 



Length, 20-32 mill. 



Sandwich Islands. 



Possibly identical with the preceding species. Pease has 

 described a variety inflexa. The same author has described 

 (but not figured) a T. sulcata, which he sa} r s may prove to be a 

 distant form of T. Swainsoni. 



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T. ELATA, Hinds. PL 5, fig. 82. 



Spirally linearly grooved between the longitudinal plications, 

 the beaded sutural band separated by a well-impressed groove ; 



