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M. TIGRINA, A. Ad. PL 46, figs. 348, 347. 



Glandiniform, with revolving striae ; longitudinally finely 

 strigate with chocolate and yellowish or whitish, aperture 



chocolate. Length, 1*8 inches. 



Mauritius. 



A giant edition of M. retusa, but proportionally narrower 

 than that species. M. jucunda, Tapparone-Canefri (fig. 341), is 

 identical with it. 



M. ANAIS, Lesson. 



An unfigured species from the GamMer Islands. It evidently 

 belongs to the present group. 



M. FUSCESCENS, Pease. (Unfigured.) Sandwich Islands. 



Subgenus Zierliana, Gray. 



In the introductory remarks upon the Strigatella section of 

 Mitra (p. 153), I have stated the reasons which induce me to 

 merge that group in the Mitras and to separate from it Zier- 

 liana, which H. and A. Adams and their successors have con- 

 sidered as a subgenus of Strigatella. 



M. ZIERVOGELIANA. Gmelin. PL 46, figs. 345, 346, 349, 350. 



Dark chocolate-brown, aperture and columella white or slightly 

 tinged with light chocolate. Length, *9 1*1 inches. 



Philippines, Polynesia. 



Sometimes the ribs are denuded of epidermis, and give a 

 zebra-like coloration to the species. 



Var. ROBUSTA, Reeve, Fig. 346. 



Not so coarsely sculptured, with less shoulder and somewhat 

 higher spire. This is the ordinary Polynesian form. It is 

 littoral, under lava stones on rocky coasts. 



Var. WOLDEMARII, Kiener. Fig. 349. 



Still more finely sculptured" and with higher spire than var. 

 robusta; with which it insensibly connects. 



Var. SOLIDULA, Reeve. Fig. 350. 



Sculpture fine, lightly impressed, more or less obsolete in the 

 middle portion of the body-whorl. The young shell which 



