8OUMI \. 



\';n-. co < INM \ Eteere, IM. i>o.\. figs, i<>. n. 



Largo, with short, concave-sided spin- ; white, pn.l'u-rly -pnnkled 

 with scarlet dots, 



Cagilllitll. Miinl,inn, rili/ij>J,ii,. fat, ('ill: 



Tornat?//,, eoeeinoto RVE., 1'. Z. S. 1842, p. 60; Conch. Sy.-t. ii, 

 pl. '-'oil. f. 10; Conch. Icon, xv, f. 1. 



Has l>een reported by Cooke (Ann. Mag. N. H. (5), xvii, p. 1 

 from Suez. 



S. SULCATA Gmelin. PI. 20A, figs. 3D, H's 17, 48. 



Shell solid, oval, with short conical spin- and lar^f body-whorl. 

 Surf-ice spirally grooved throughout, the grooves rather shallow, 

 separated by wider intervals on the median //</// of the body-whorl, 

 about 21 in number. White, closely ttpnkkd ami checkered in n ir- 

 regular, r<i(/</ed pattern with mingled tawny audit/ark. Aperture 

 narrow and long, heavily calloused within; columella bearing a 

 large, squarish, entering bifid fold, the parietal wall above it arum! 

 with a smaller transverse fold, above which are usually several smaller 

 denticles, 



Alt. 23, diam. 12 mill. (Negros, Philippines). 



Alt. 16, diam. 8 mill. (Singapore). 



Negros, Philippines (Gaming) ; Seychelles, Mauritius and Red 

 Sea (Martens) ; Palm Island, N.-E. Australia ; Sue and Darnley Is.* 

 Torres St*. ; Anse Vata, nr. Noumea, N. Caledonia (Brazier); 

 N ;<i]x>re (Archer.) ; Tahiti. 



\'o/uta mlcata GMEL., Syst. Nat. (13), p. 3436. Tornatelln pi 

 tata Fi;u., Tab. Syst., p. W8.Tornatella glabra REKVI:. \\ / 

 1842, p. 60 ; Conch. Syst. ii, pi. 206, f. 12 ; Conch. Icon, xv, pi. 1, 

 f. 4. So/!<lu/<i (//ahra AD., P. Z. S. 1854, p. 61. Buccinulus g ! 

 r>itA/.n-:ii, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, ii, p. 76. Tttrn<it*Ha 

 xnlnita MAKTKNS, in Moltius' Reise nach Mauritius, p. 302. 



This species is subject to great mutations of form, size and color- 

 ing. The smallest before me are from Tahiti, measurim: 1- mill, 

 in alt,, having very little tawny coloring; a blackish or a>hy >p<i-kl- 

 ing predominates. 



Tin- rainr* 1 '!, bicolorrd markings, and the (usual) plurality of 

 parietal teeth, as well as the wider spacing of the grooves about 

 median part of the large whorl, are all characters easily .-undering 

 this species from the foregoing. The spiral _ r roo\e> are di-tii 

 pitted on the spire. 



