1879.] MR. E. A. SMITH ON MOLLTJSCA FROM JAPAN. 185 



p. 34 ; id. Sowerby's Thesaur. Con. toI. i. pi. 44. fig. 73 ; Reeve, 

 Conch. Icon. vol. xii. fig. 130. 



Hab. Station 18. Philippines {Cuming); Straits of Macassar 

 (Hinds) ; Ovalau, Fiji Islands {Macgillivray in Brit. Mus.). 



6. Terebra subtextilis. (Plate XIX. fig. 3.) 



Sliell subulate, entirely white : whorls probably about 22, the 

 few apical ones being broken off; they are a little convex, finely 

 ribbed, and spirally grooved ; costEe about 20 on a whorl, arcuate, 

 constricted a little below their upper extremities by a spiral furrow, 

 which in the interstices between the ribs is comparatively deeply 

 pitted ; transverse strise rather deep, more or less obsolete on the costaj, 

 about ten in number on a whorl, whereof three are above the 

 pitted sulcus, and the rest below it ; the ribs on the last whorl are 

 arcuate above and flexuous at the base, to which they attain ; the 

 lower part of the whorl is also transversely sulcated like the up])er 

 portion ; columella covered with a distinct callosity ; canal short, 

 rather broad and recurved. 



Length 37 millims., diam. 6. 



Hab. Station 21. 



This species to a certain extent has the characters of T. texfilis. 

 Hinds. From it, however, it may be known by its more convex and 

 broader whorls, its greater size, and the more numerous spiral sulci 

 or striae, which in this sj)ecies are present on the infrasutural band 

 as well as below the pitted groove, whilst in 7'. textilis they only 

 exist on the latter portion of the whorls, leaving the upper part plain, 

 with the exception of the cut-off terminations of the costae. These 

 striae are of different magnitudes, so that the interstices also vary in 

 size and also in their degree of elevation. The scui|)ture of T. pohj- 

 c/yrata, Dcsh., is similar in character, but much finer. That, too, is 

 a coloured species and smaller. 



7. Terebra tantilla. Smith. (Plate XIX. fig. 4.) 



MyureJla tantilla. Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1873, vol. xi. 

 p. 270. 



Myin-ella pumilio, Smith, I. e. p. 269. 



Hab. Station 21. Persian Gulf (Col. Pelly in Brit. Mus.). 



The specimens described under the name of T. tantilla were in 

 bad, faded condition ; and hence it was that the third band on the 

 body-whorl escaped observation. I am now convinced of the iden- 

 tity of P. tantilla and T. pumilio. 



8. Terebra albozonata. Snath. (Plate XIX. fig. 5.) 



Terebra albozonata. Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1875, vol, 

 XV. p. 415 ; I. c. 1877, vol. xix. p. 226. 



Hab. Station 27. Matoza Harbour (/. c). 



It is satisfactory to have obtained a second, although young, ex- 

 ample of this species agreeing perfectly with the type. 



I take this opportunity of changing the name of a species of 



