TEREBRA. 9 



T. DIMIDIATA, Linn. PL 1, figs. 13, 4. 



Reddish orange, banded with oblong spots on a white ground, 

 sutural band orange-red ; upper whorls longitudinally plicate, 

 lower ones smooth. Length, 3-5-5 inches. 



Singapore, Philippines, Central Polynesia. 



T. splendens, Desh. (fig. 4), from the China Sea, appears to be 

 a small variety, the figure being natural size. 



T. MACULATA, Linn. PL 1, figs. 9, 10. 



Flesh-white, broadly banded with fawn-color, the bands often 

 broken up into oblong, close markings, with a band of longitu- 

 dinal black-purple strigations next the sutures, and below it a 

 second much smaller band of spots or hieroglyphic markings ; 

 early whorls often longitudinally plicate ; balance smooth. 



Length, 4'5-0'5 inches. 



Moluccas, Australia, Philippines Central Polynesia. 



Sometimes a spiral impressed line divides off' as a sutural 

 band, the upper row of strigations. 



The Polynesians eat the animal, and use the shell shaped to a 

 chisel in making canoes. 



T. MUSCARIA, Lam. PL 1, fig. 12. 



Yellowish white, with a row of oblong bright chestnut spots 

 on a sutural band, and two (on the body-whorl three) similar 

 rows below it ; the spots are smaller and more widely separated 

 than in the preceding species, and the form of the shell is nar- 

 rower. Length, 3-6 inches. 



Japan, Philippines Central Polynesia. 



Mr. Tapparone-Canefri's variety callichloros is founded on a 

 narrow, brightly colored specimen figured by Quoy in the Yoy. 

 Astrolabe ; there is no good reason for giving it a name. 



T. CONSORS, Hinds. PL 3, figs. 32-34. 



Shell smooth, the sutural band distinct and obsoletely plicate ; 

 whitish, with light chestnut obliquely longitudinal flames, inter- 

 rupted on the periphery of the last whorl, below which they 

 sometimes coalesce into a broad revolving band. 



Length, 2'75 inches. Society Islands. 



T. virginea, Desh. (fig. 33), and T. glabra, Desh. (fig. 34), are 

 both described from worn specimens in which the coloring is no 



