PUSIA. 181 



T. BRONNI, Bunker. 



An uufigured species said to be very like T. ylandiformis, 

 Reeve, but much larger, narrower, paler in color, and somewhat 



curved before. Length, 20 mill. 



Japan. 

 T. KRAUSSI, Dunker. 



An unfigured species, resembling the preceding, somewhat, 

 and also recalling the narrow variety of T. microzonias. It is 

 found in the Japanese seas. 



T. CROCATA, Lam. PL 55, figs. 595-597. 



Reddish orange or yellowish brown, with a superior narrow 



white band. Length, -f 5-1 -25 inch. 



Philippines ; Polynesia. 



The type figured by Kiener, fig. 595, is even larger than the 

 size given in Lamarck's description which is, length one and a 

 quarter inches. I have some doubt whether the shell usually 

 identified with T. crocata, and which is common enough in 

 cabinets, is really that species, for it is always much smaller and 

 less shouldered sometimes without any superior angle on the 

 whorls. If this identification is correct, a large synonymy must 

 be added (principally on account of inconstant coloration), 

 including T. aureolafa, renustida,flavescens, etc. I prefer to let 

 crocata stand as a somewhat doubtful form, and include the 

 others under the name of T. aureolata. T. concinna, Reeve (fig. 

 597), is a smaller shell, varying only in the interstices of the 

 revolving ridges being darker colored. 



T. PYRAMIDALIS, Reeve. PI. 55, fig. 598. 



Yellowish or orange-brown, with a white superior zone. 



Length, 1'25-1'5 inches. 



Isle of Annaa, Paumotus Group. 



Garrett obtained a specimen which is white with two orange- 

 yellow bands. The spire is more elegated and less angular than 

 in T. crocata ; the ribs much more curved and more roughly 

 tuberculated. This is the aurantia of Swainson, not Gmelin, 

 and Garrett proposes to revive that name ; Gmelin 's species 

 being a true Mitra and Turricula now generally accepted as a 

 distinct genus : in common parlance the Turriculae, however, will 

 probably continue to be referred to as Mitrae, so that some con- 

 fusion might arise from reinstating T. aurantia. 



