200 TURRITELLA. 



T. DECLIVIS, Ad. and Reeve. PL 62, fig. 70. 



Whorls about 18, flatly slanting to an angle above the suture, 

 nearly smooth, very finely undulately striated, plicate in the 

 middle, towards the apex ; yellowish white, stained with livid 

 brown, the earlier whorls spotted with brown in a row beneath 

 the suture. Length, 2 inches. 



China Sea. 

 T. SINUATA, Reeve. PI. 61, fig. GO. 



Whorls 14, flattened, finely spirally ridged and striated, lip 

 deeply sinuous ; light fulvous, with a red-dotted white zone 

 beneath the suture. Length, -65 inch. 



Hab. unknown. 

 T. CINGULATA, Sowb. PI. 62, fig. 71. 



Whorls about 17, convexly flattened, spirally strongly three- 

 ribbed, often with alternate smaller riblets, ribs usually gran- 

 osely crenulated, suture deep ; whitish, the ribs very dark 

 chocolate or nearly black, aperture numerously chocolate banded. 



T. tricarinata, King, is a synonym. Chili. 



T. COLUMNARTS, Kiener. PL 63, fig. 76. 



Whorls about 30, narrow, the earlier ones showing two 

 approximate keels in the middle, the rest rather flattened and 

 about ten-ridged, the ridges obsoletely granulated, with inter- 

 mediate fine striae, suture excavated ; yellowish white, with light 

 chestnut-colored waved longitudinal streaks. Length, 4 inches. 



Ceylon. 

 T. LEUCOSTOMA, Yal. PL 62, fig. 72. 



Whorls about 20, very narrow, contracted around the exca- 

 vated suture, flattened, spirally about 6-ridged, the ridges narrow, 

 rather distant, granose, the interstices very finely striated ; 

 whitish, faintly longitudinally clouded with light chestnut, ridges 

 chestnut-spotted. Length, 3 inches. 



West Coast of Central America. 



T. COOPERI, Carp. PL 61, fig. 61. 



Whorls about 17, slopingly flattened, excavated at the suture, 

 two-ridged and finely striated spirally, the last whorl doubly 

 ridged below, with a single ridge above ; yellowish, longitu- 

 dinally flamed with chestnut or chocolate. Length, T75 inches. 



Southern California. 



