200 TURRIT ELLA. 



T DECLIVIS, Ad. and Reeve. PL 62, fig. 70. 



Whorls about 18, flatly slanting to an angle above the suture, 

 nearly smooth, very finely unclulately striated, plicate in the 

 middle, towards the apex ; yellowish white, stained with livid 

 brown, the earlier whorls spotted with brown in a row beneath 

 the suture. Length, 2 inches. 



China Sea. 

 T. SINUATA, Reeve. PL 61, fig. 60. 



Whorls 14, flattened, finely spirally ridged and striated, lip 

 deeply sinuous ; light fulvous, with a red-dotted white zone 

 beneath the suture. Length, -65 inch. 



Hob. unknown. 

 T. CINGULATA, Sowb. PL 62, fig. 71. 



Whorls about 17, convexly flattened, spirally strongly three- 

 ribbed, often with alternate smaller riblets, ribs usually gran- 

 osely crenulated, suture deep ; whitish, the ribs very dark 

 chocolate or nearly black, aperture numerously chocolate banded. 



T. tricarinata, King, is a synonym. Chili. 



T. COLUMNARIS, Kiener. PL 63, fig. 76. 



Whorls about 30, narrow, the earlier ones showing two 

 approximate keels in the middle, the rest rather flattened and 

 about ten-ridged, the ridges obsoletely granulated, with inter- 

 mediate fine striae, suture excavated ; yellowish white, with light 

 chestnut-colored waved longitudinal streaks. Length, 4 inches. 



Ceylon. 

 T.' LEUCOSTOMA, Yal. PL 62, fig. 72. 



Whorls about 20, very narrow, contracted around the exca- 

 vated suture, flattened, spirally about 6-ridged, the ridges narrow, 

 rather distant, granose, the interstices very finely striated ; 

 whitish, faintly longitudinally clouded with light chestnut, ridges 

 chestnut-spotted. Length, 3 inches. 



West Coast of Central America. 



T. COOPERI, Carp. PL 61, fig. 61. 



Whorls about 17, slopingly flattened, excavated at the suture, 

 two-ridged and finely striated spirally, the last whorl doubly 

 ridged below, with a single ridge above ; yellowish, longitu- 

 dinally flamed with chestnut or chocolate. Length, T75 inches. 



tionlhern California. 



