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under them, so that the upper series might be said to be subdivided 

 bv the spiral furrow which separates them. The general tone 

 of the shell is light brown or fawn ; but a few of the upper whorls 

 are of a more or less lilac tint. The variety, from its slenderness 

 and different coloration, appears at first sight almost specifically 

 distinct ; its sculpturing, however, is of precisely the same character 

 as that of the typical form. The painting of T. aheoJata, Hinds, 

 resembles that of this species very mucli ; but its sculpture is a great 

 deal coarser. 



3. Terebra jEFFREYSii. (Plate XIX. fig. 2.) 



Shell subulate, dirty yellowish, dotted and streaked with light 

 brown. Whorls 13 to 14 ; the two nuclear ones proportionally very 

 large, globose, white, shining; the restflat, bearingnumerousobhque, 

 but little raised fine costse (about 20 on a whorl), and spirally striated, 

 the striae cutting through the riblets and giving them a nodulous appear- 

 ance : the striae number about five on a whorl ; of these the two 

 uppermost are twice as far apart as the three following, and con- 

 sequently the spaces between them are wider and more conspicuous ; 

 the ends of the costse cut off by the two uppermost striae are 

 })rominently nodulous, and form two distinct series of granules, 

 whereof the upper are more elongate than the lower. The body- 

 whorl is but very faintly angled at the middle ; the costae 

 upon it terminate abruptly at that part, and are only continued 

 to the base in a very obsolete manner ; thus the lower half of the 

 whorl is comparatively smooth to the upper portion, and the spiral 

 or concentric striae are also less pronounced than those above. The 

 aperture is small, light brown, and exhibits traces of one or two pale 

 narrow zones. The canal is short, oblique, and slightly recurved : 

 the columella is straight or nearly so in the middle and oblique at 

 the base, and covered with a thin, shining, whitish callosity. 



Length 25 millim., diam. 5. 



Hab. Stations 20 and 21. 



This species is remarkable on account of the unusually large size 

 of the nuclear whorls. The colour is rather indistinct, as most of 

 the specimens are more or less coated with a cretaceous deposit ; 

 however, it appears to be luteous or dirty yellow, dotted with light 

 brown between the two series of nodules, and streaked with the same 

 colour beneath, and the body-whorl has a pale zone at the middle. 



4. Terebra xoRauATA, Adams & Reeve. 



Terebra torquata, KA^ixn?, & Kceves, Yoy. Samarang, p. 30, pi. 10. 

 fig. 13 ; Reeve, Conch. Icon. vol. xii. fig. G9. 



Hab. Station 14. China Sea {A. Adams). 



This species must not be confounded with T. fevestrata, Hinds. 

 The latter is very similarly sculptured, but lacks the variegated 

 painting of T. torquata. 



5. Terebra textilis. Hinds. 



Terebra textilis, Hinds, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 156; id. Yoy. Sulphur, 



