32 TEREBRA. 



periphery scarcely distinguishable, but below it a narrow 

 chestnut band. ^ ^^ Q/ ^.^ 



T. Traillii, Desh. (fig. 79), from the Indian Ocean, is a very 

 similar shell, and may connect this variety with the type. 

 T. ACICULINA, Reeve. PL 10, figs. 81, 82. 



Shell evenly plicate, the plicaB small, short, or usually covering 

 the entire shell ; aperture peculiarly broadly dilated at the base ; 

 usually chocolate or ash-color, white-banded at the suture, and 

 on the periphery of the body-whorl, the interstices of the plica- 

 tions reddish chestnut on the margins of the bands, as if fasci- 

 culated ; sometimes the general color is pale, almost white, 

 deepened here and there, especially below the peripheral white 

 band, so as to appear like a colored band ; interior chestnut-red, 

 white-banded. Length, 1*5 inch. 



Singapore, Manilla, Marquesas, Sandwich Ides. 



Usually distinguished by color, longer plications, broad base, 

 smaller size, from the preceding species. Reeve has figured and 

 described it as T. aciculina, Lam., but Mr. E. A. Smith has 

 shown that Lamarck's species is really T. cinerea, Born. Hinds, 

 on the other hand, has referred the present species to T. cinerea, 

 for which he figures it. Mr. Smith has thought fit to impose a 

 new name, T. confusa, which appears to me to be quite unnec- 

 essary, as, even if the name aciculina cannot be used, as of 

 Reeve, not Lamarck, there is another, older name given to the 

 species, T. inconstans, Hinds (fig. 82). I prefer to retain aci- 

 culina, because the species is universally known under that 

 name. The unfigured T. Matheroniana, Desh., was referred by 

 Reeve, in his Iconica, both to this species and to T. strigilata, 

 but in his index he removes it from the synonymy of the latter. 

 Pease considers it a synonym of strigilata, and not of aciculina, 

 and Smith believes it to be a distinct species. In the absence 

 of a figure, I have no means of arriving at a judgment upon the 

 matter, further than that the description appears to apply best 

 to T. stricjilata. T. anomala, Gray, was here referred by Reeve, 

 but it differs in having a sutural band, defined by a groove. 

 T. LUCTUOSA, Hinds. PI. 10, fig. 83. 



Shell narrowly subulate, smooth, with fine spiral stride under 



