10 TEREBRA. 



longer very apparent, although Reeve has discovered traces of 

 it upon the types. 



T. SUBULATA, Linn. PI. 1, fig. 3 ; PL 3, fig. 35. 



Light flesh-color or yellowish, with two spiral series (on the 

 last whorl three), of quadrang.ular distant chestnut or chocolate 

 spots ; upper whorls longitudinally plicate, and with a sutural 

 band ; in the later whorls this band is lost, but sometimes the 

 whorls are somewhat swollen just beneath the sutures, although 

 the impressed line defining the band is obsolete ; surface smooth, 

 or with impressed (sometimes minutely punctate) revolving 

 lines. Length, 4-6 inches. 



Japan, Moluccas, Philippines, Society Islands, etc. 



Var. CONSOBRINA, Desh. PI. 3, fig. 35. 



More conically subulate than the type, with the spots smaller, 

 the surface distantly encircled by punctate grooves, a sutural 

 band slightly indicated. 



Red Sea. 



Barely distinguishable as a variety. 



T. TIGRINA, Gmelin. PI. 1, fig. 11. 



Shell white, with a single row of chestnut spots just above the 

 sutures, two rows on the last whorl, of which the lower one, 

 near the base, is smaller ; surface smooth, an unornamented 

 band below the sutures is defined by an impressed line. 



Length, 2-3 inches. 



Sandwich Islands, Central Polynesia. 



Reeve's locality, West Indies, is erroneous. 



T. OCULATA, Lam. PL 2, fig. 20 ; PL 3, fig. 36. 



Orange-brown, with a row of large white spots just below the 

 sutures, and a second row below the middle of the body-whorl; 

 whorls somewhat constricted in the middle. 



Length, 3'5-5 inches. 



Moluccas Viti Island*. 



According to Reeve, who has seen the type, T. nebulosa, 

 Lorois (iig. o(>), is the young of the species ; the name being pre- 

 occupied, Ik-shim's chunked it to T. Loroisii. 



