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the lens, puckered at the sutures into close, small longitudinal 

 plications ; deep chocolate-colored, including the interior of the 

 aperture. Length, 1'25-1'75 inches. 



Gulf of Nicoya to Mazatlan, W. Coast of N. America. 



Reeve makes this a synonym of T. cinerea, Born ; but it is 



more subulate, the color uniform, the plications smaller, closer, 



longer and more waved. None of the specimens before me 



show any bands. 



T. STRIGILATA, Linn. PI. 10, figs. 84, 85, 88. 



Shell highly polished, regularly flatly longitudinally plicate, 

 the plicae usually extending below the middle of the body-whorl ; 

 fawn or ash-color, white-banded at the suture, with a row of 

 square chestnut spots on the band ; body-whorl white-banded at 

 the periphery and darker-colored below the band ; aperture 

 rather narrowed below ; chestnut, with a median white band. 



Length, 1'25-1'75 inches. 



Polynesia, Sandwich Islands. 



A narrower, more cylindrical species than T. cinerea^ from 

 which it differs also in its regular, longer, coarser plications, and 

 brighter coloring. It has several synonyms : T. strigilata 

 (striatula), Kiener, in part, T. Argenvillei, Desh. (unfigured), 

 T. acumen, Desh. (unfigured), T. modesta, Desh. (unfigured), 

 mouth of the Indus ; all made synonyms by Reeve, who 

 examined the types ; T. concinna, Dillwyn (not Deshayes), 

 T. Verreauxi, Desh. (fig. 85), T. Matheroniana, Deshayes (see 

 remarks p. 32). T. lepida, Hinds (fig. 88), must also be added, 

 although Hinds thought it sufficient!}' distinguished b}^ the 

 absence of a white sutural band, and by its sharper plications. 



T. LAUTA, Pease. PI. 10, fig. 91. 



Subcylindrical, longitudinally, straightly plicate, the plicae 

 regular, sharp, extending across the whorls, the interstices with 

 a single row of punctures near the suture ; leaden gray to 

 orange-brown, polished, banded with yellow, bearing a row of 

 chestnut spots at the suture, with a pale peripheral band, 

 beneath which the body-whorl is chestnut-colored. 



Length, 1 inch. 



Sandwich Islands. 



Figured from a type-specimen. It may be only a strong 



