144 CANTHARIDUS. 



This shell is quite distinct from its congeners, and remarkable for 

 its rays of brown, more or less shaded with a greenish hue. It 

 belongs to the group of T. elongatus and Kotschyi. (Fischer.} 



C. KOTSCHYI Philippi. PL 46, figs. 70-72. 



Shell narrowly perforated, conoidal, whitish-ashen, ornamented 

 with undulating, oblique, radiating chestnut or blackish stripes ; 

 spire acute ; whorls 7, the first eroded, the remainder angulated and 

 nodulose above ; above the carina obliquely nodulose, below the 

 carina spirally lirate ; lirse 4 ; last whorl biangular, convex beneath, 

 and with 7 concentric brown-spotted lirse. Aperture subquadrate ; 

 columella arcuate, white, sinuous, below strongly truncate-dentate. 



Alt. 30, diam. 24 mill. (Fischer.) 



Karrak, Persia. 



T. kotschyi PHIL., Zeitschr. f. Mai., 1848, p. 127 ; Conchyl. Cab., 

 p. 234, t. 35, f. 8. FISCHER, Coq. Viv., p. 207, t. 69, f. 1. 



C. PYRGOS Philippi. PL 46, figs. 74-76. 



Shell imperforate, acutely conical, rather thin ; whorls 9, planu- 

 late, ashen or brownish, maculate or obliquely striped with brown ; 

 obliquely arcuately peculiarly crispate-striate, spirally cingulate, 6 

 unequal granose cinguli on the penultimate whorl as wide or nar- 

 rower than the interstices, which frequently bear minute lirulse, the 

 upper and lower cinguli more prominent, the others equal. Last 

 whorl carinated ; base convex and lirate (with about 8 lirse and in- 

 terstitial lirulse) ; aperture rhomboidal, sulcate within ; lip thin ; 

 basal margin subcrenulated ; columella subhorizontal, slightly 

 arcuate, subtruncate at base, expanding in a short callous over or 

 nearly over the umbilicus above. 



Alt. 20, diam. 15 mill.; alt. 23, diam. 17 mill. 



Wallis Is. Port Jackson, Australia. 



T. pyrgos PHIL. Zeitschr. f. Mai. 1849, p. 189 ; Conchyl. Cab., 

 p. 297, t. 43, f. 14. FISCHER, Coq. Viv., p. 368, t. 112, f. 4. 

 ? Thalotia zebrides A. AD., P. Z. S. 1851, p. 173. 



Distinguished by its straightly conical form, peculiarly crispate 

 striation, and spiral granose lirse. 



Two trays of this species are before me ; one marked " Java," I 

 know not on whose authority ; the other was received from DR. J. 

 C. Cox, from Port Jackson. 



