264 Mr. E. A. Smith on new Species of Terebridas. 



'Thesaurus Conchyl.' pi. xliv. fig. 75 was taken is in the 

 Cumingian collection. On comparing it with the type oijlava 

 in the British Museum, it proves to be a very distinct shell ; 

 and I have therefore applied to it the name lutescens. 



Genus Terebra, 



Terebra Adamsii. 



T. testa subulata, leviter turrita, sordide albida, strigis fuscis, parvis 

 (iu anfr. singulo pluribus) sulcis trausversis interruptis ornata ; 

 anfr. tdtimus iufra peripheriam albidam zona fusca ductus ; anfr. 

 19-20, plani, superne tuberculorum parvoruin seriebus spii'ahbus 

 diiabus sulco di\'isis (superioribus majoribus, obHquis, cingulum 

 infrasuturale constituentibus), ciucti, et siUcis angustis 3 (in anfr. 

 ultimo 9-10) insculpti ; anfr. ultimus brevis, subquadratus ; 

 columella contorta, alba ; canalis leviter reciurvus. 



Long. 36 mill., diam. Q^. 



Hah. Japan [A. Adams). 



This and the other species from Japan described in the 

 present paper were collected in the seas surrounding that 

 country by Mr. Arthur Adams, to whom I have much pleasure 

 in dedicating the present form. 



The whorls have an infrasutural band of oblique nodules 

 (in width occupying about one third of the whorl), which are 

 irregularly brown and Avhite, and also just below this a second 

 girdle of smaller nodules, which are alternately brown and 

 white. From these brown nodules descend little narrow 

 streaks of the same colom-, which are interrupted by the three 

 narrow spiral sulci or strise which are engraven around each 

 whorl. 



Terebra australts. 



T. testa subulata, subturrita ; anfr. couvexiusculi basesque versus 

 paululum contract!, superne sulco profundo divisi ; pars superior 

 angulata, nodulis subacutis munita ; pars inferior costis validissimis, 

 rectis, acutis (iu anfr. ultimo 27-28 sensim ad basim obsoletis) in- 

 structa, baud spii-ahter striata ; dilute hvido-fulva ; costarum acies 

 pallide, anfractusque dimidium inferius dilute fulvum ; apertura 

 intus superne fulva, interne pallida ; columella subrecta ; canalis 

 brevissimus. 



Long. 55 mill., diam. 12^ ; apertura long. 12 miU., diam. 5. 



Hah. Swan River, and Paterson's Bay, Torres Straits, 

 North Australia [J. R. Elsey, Esq.). 



This is a very remarkable species, of which there are two 

 specimens in the British Museum. The infrasutural belt, 



