MIT RA §strigata. 
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SpeciFic CHARACTER. 
Shell very smooth, chestnut with paler longitudinal stripes, which 
are white at their commencement ; aperture white, shorter than 
the spire; pillar 4-plaited. 
Mitra strigata. Sw. in Brand’s Journ., No. 33, p. 37, Ap. 1824. 
Tue Conchologist will find a full description of the three 
Mitras here figured in the Journal above mentioned. They 
are all of singular rarity, more particularly strigata and 
_ carinata, as of these we have never seen second specimens. 
M. strigata belongs to that group which contains M. mela- 
niana, scutulata, &c. Its country is unknown. 
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MITRA bicolor. 
Shell smooth, polished, fusiform, white, with a brown central band; 
upper part of the body whorl and spire with cancellated 
punctured striz: base with simple striz. 
Tuis pretty shell seldom exceeds three-quarters of an inch 
in length; our figure is consequently enlarged: the pillar 
has four plaits. ‘Chis, in conjunction with M. casta, oliva- 
ria, dactylus (Lam.), and oliveformis (Sw.), constitute a 
particular group, allied to Concehelix, having the plaits 
extending far beyond the aperture. 
Inhabits the South Seas. In the Manchester Museum, 
and in our own. 
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MITRA earinata. 
Shell slender, fusiform, brown; whorls with a single carinated 
ridge, and striated transversely near the suture; pillar 4- 
platted. 
Tue habit of this Mitra will place it with the fusiform 
species ; from all of which, however, it differs in not having 
exterior plaits, nodules, or impressed sculpture. The 
aperture is smooth within, and white. We have only seen 
one specimen, received by Mrs. Mawe, from Sierra Leone, 
and this was covered with a brown epidermis. 
Mitra PI. 2. 
