20 TEREBRA. 



sutural band; longitudinally closely plicate, spirally linearly 

 grooved, the suturnl band separated by a pricked groove. 



Length, 35 mill. 



China (Desh.) ; A 7 . Caledonia (Brazier). 



T. BLANDA, Desh. PL 5, fig. 72. 



Shell transparent white, dotted with chestnut on the sutural 

 band, apex purple ; no revolving sculpture; aperture somewhat 

 fusiformly produced below. Length, 30 mill. 



Japan. 

 T. PULCHELLA, Deshayes. PL 5, fig. 74. 



Light yellowish brown, stained with rust-color, with a white 

 peripheral band ; whorls concave, arcuately plaited, without 

 spiral striae, subsutural groove crenate. Length, 43 mill. 



China. 

 T. TEXTILIS, Hinds. PL 5, figs. 75, 76. 



Yellowish white; closely plicated, with fine spiral lines, with 

 two bands of plicae below the suture. Length, 35 mill. 



Japan ; Sta. Macassar ; Sandwich Islands. 

 T. nodularis, Desh. (fig. 76), is a synonym. 



T. CCELATA, Adams and Reeve. PL 5, fig. 77. 



Surface sharply granulated by longitudinal and spiral sculp- 

 ture ; transparent white. Length, 41 mill. 



China. 



Has the form of the preceding species, from which it is, per- 

 haps, insufficiently distinguished by the non-development of the 

 inferior band of tubercles. 



T. TORQUATA, Ads. and Reeve. PL 5, fig. 78. 



Longitudinal plicae narrow, raised, interstices spirally striate- 

 latticed ; next the suture are two nodulous bands, separated by 

 a sulcus, the periphery is subangulated and slightly nodulous on 

 the angle, between this and the sutural band the surface is some- 

 what concave ; fawn-colored, the sculpture lighter, a white baud 

 below the periphery. Length, 44 mill. 



'fa i >an. 



A very distinct, beautiful species. 



T. BICINCTA, Hinds. PL 5, fig. 79. 



White ; with thin longitudinal plicce, and no spiral sculpture ; 



