1862.] M. o, A. L,. morch's review of the vermetid^. 75 



saturate rufus, 'prcesertim superne^ margine pallii linea fiava 

 notato (ex icone Oerstedii). 



Var. /3. tenuis. 



T. tenuiuscula, albescens, liris longitudinalihus valiclioribus re- 

 motis, interstitiis liris tribus incequalibus ; strice incrementi 

 fiavce, leviter undulatts. 

 Diam. aperturse circ. 6 m. 



Vermicularia glornerata, Gravenh. Tergest. p. 60. 

 Jun. ? Vermicularia scabra, Gravenh. Tergest. p. 56 (two frag- 

 ments). 



Hab, I. S. Thomee {Coll. nostra^. 



Var. y. intermedia. 



T. tenuis, alba, liris longitudinalibus obsoletissimis, striis incre- 

 menti pallide Jlavis ; fasciis pallidissimis longitudinalibus juxt a 

 aperturam. 



Diam. aperturse 5 m. 



Hab. Ins. Jamaica (Mus. Cuming). 



This shell is a good transition between the type and 



Var. ^. LiEVIGATA. 



T. solitaria, crassa, solida, Icevigata, liris destituta, Candida, in- 

 terdum aperturam versus casfanea vel badia ; strice et rugoe 

 incrementi obsoletissimce ; anfr. ultimus plerumque porrectus, 

 intns fiaveseens vel castaneus. 

 Le Villebrequin, Favan. i. p. 598, t. 5. f. G. 

 Serpula proboscidea {ocliracea et alba), Gravh. Tergest. p. 78. 

 IFermetus forites, Rouss., Chenu, 111. pi. 2. f. 3, d, e. 

 Hab. I. S. Thomse, in coralliis {Heteroporis) ssepe una cum 

 Siphonio nebuloso {Mus. Cuming et nostra). 



This shell looks so different from the type, that I should not ven- 

 ture to put them together if I had not compared numerous specimens, 

 in some of which the difference of sculpture and colour were present 

 in one and the same individual. The tubes show frequently a deep 

 channel at the affixed side, being the cast of a branch of a coral. 



Var. e. PHILIPPINENSIS. 



T. crassiuscula, laqueatim cotitorta ; anfr, inferne plani, lateri- 

 bus dilatatis, badii vel castanei, superne albescentes punctis 

 fiavis transversaliter conjluentibus ; lirce longitudinales nodulis 

 minutissimis, aperturam versus evanescentes ; interstitia lirulis 

 1 vel 2 incequalibus ; strice incrementi regulares, leviter undu^ 

 latce, pulcherrimce. 



Diam. aperturse 7i m. 



Hab. Ins. Philippin. {Mus. Cuming). 



This shell seems only to differ from the type in its larger calibre 

 and in the beauty of the striae of growth. 



