196 TURBO. 



T. ARTENSIS Montrouzier, 1860. PI. 45, figs. 96, 97. 



Shell oval or subrhomboidal in outline, ventricose, solid, imperfor- 

 ate, covered with a strong olivaceous epidermis; spire short, acute; 

 sutures subcanaliculate ; whorls 5-6, convex, with spiral line which 

 are narrower than their interstices, and number 11-12 on the body- 

 whorl, grooves closely radiately lamellar striate, with a central 

 riblet; aperture ovate, angulate above and below, white within; 

 columella flattened, wide, effuse at base. Alt. 65, diam. 60 mill. 



Ins Art, New Caledonian Archipelago, 



Operculum slightly concave within, castaneous, with 3 whorls, 

 the nucleus situated at one-third the distance across the face; outside 

 white, convex, center obsoletely granulose, outer part obliquely 

 striate. 



T, FUNICULOSUS Kiener. PI. 48, fig. 33. 



Shell ovate-ventricose, solid, imperforate ; spire short, acute, whorls 

 5, convex ; sutures canaliculate; spirally lirate; body-whorl large with 

 unequal line and one or two intermediate liruhe in the interstices; 

 aperture ovate, silvery within, peristome greenish, somewhat fluted ; 

 columella dilated and produced at the base; color chestnut-olive, 

 maculated and tessellated with white. Alt. 48, diam. 49 mill. 



Habitat unknown. 



I have not seen this form, which Fischer compares with setosus 

 and artensis. In coloration it is similar to T. fluctuosus ', and Car- 

 penter has identified it with doubt with that species. 



T. JAPONICUS Reeve, 1848. PI. 44, fig. 81 ; PI. 48, fig. 41. 



"Shell ovate, imperforated, rather thin, somewhat inflated ; whorls 

 smooth, spirally ribbed, ribs sometimes prominent and regular, some- 

 times rather flattened and very irregular; fawn-yellow, variously 

 stained and blotched with red, interior silvered." (Reeve.} 



Reeve confounded two forms in his illustrations and diagnosis of 

 this species: One of his figures, (pi. ix, fig. 336. of the Conchologia 

 Iconica) is the young of T. cornutus Gmel.; the other, (pi. viii, fig. 

 33, of the Iconica) precedes this on his plates, and has been recogni- 

 zed by Kiener and by Fischer as the real T. japonicus. Under these 

 circumstances I am compelled to place in the synonymy Sowerhy's 

 T. cernicus, which he founds upon shells which are (teste Sowerby, 

 Thes. Conch., p. 197.) identical with Reeve's first figure of T. japoni- 

 cus. According to Sowerby the species is from Mauritius, not Japan. 

 The following is Sowerby's description. 



