TECTARIUS. 259 



T. MONTROUZIERI, Fischer. PL 47, figs. 56, 57. 



Thick, whitish, light flesh color near the suture, spirally cingu- 

 late and longitudinally costate, the intersections forming close series 

 of nodules ; aperture sulcate within, basal margin plicate, colum- 

 ella white, subdentate at the base. Length, 10 mill. 



New Caledonia. 



T. NODOSUS, Gray. PL 47, figs. 66, 65, 67 ; PL 48, figs. 83-86. 



Spirally striate, with three spiral ribs, which are more or less 

 nodose, yellowish or greyish, sometimes indistinctly banded or 

 marbled with chestnut, the ribs, in fresh specimens, chocolate 

 colored, interrupted by the white tubercles, interior chestnut or 

 chocolate color, light-banded at the base. Length, 18-21 mill. 



Indo- Australian, South Africa. 



Fig. 66 represents the typical form ; a more elate, worn speci- 

 men is represented in T. subnodosus, Phil. (fig. 65.) 



T. Natalensis, Krauss (fig. 67), and T. lemniscata Phil. (fig. 86), 

 are also synonyms. 



T. MILIARIS, Quoy. PL 48, figs. 78, 76, 71, 82, 77, 69. 



Short ovate, closely spirally striate, the strise nodulous above the 

 rounded periphery, bluish grey, mottled with greyish white, colum- 

 ella and aperture chocolate color, the latter with a basal white 

 band. Length, 13 mill. 



Ascension Isl., Viti Is., Australia. 



T. echinatus, Anton., T. granocostatus, Reeve (fig. 82), T. Fee- 

 jeensis, Reeve (fig. 76), and perhaps the doubtful T. reticulatus, 

 Anton (fig. 71), of unknown habitat, are synonyms. 



Var. GRANOSUS, Phil. PL 48, fig. 77, 69. 



Subconical, whorls flattened above, with an obtuse peripheral 

 angle, roughly granulated by longitudinal, crossed by spiral ridges, 

 the granules smaller, in spiral series on the base, bluish grey, more 

 or less marbled, columella and interior chestnut color or bluish. 



Length, 12 mill. 



Fernando Po. 



Frequently narrower, and more elate than the specimen figured. 



T. glans, Reeve (fig. 69), is a synonym. 



T. RUGOSUS, Menke. PL 48, fig. 70. 



Solid, imperforate, tumidly conve$, spirally linearly grooved, 

 longitudinally strongly ribbed, the intersections forming tubercles 



