34 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY, VOL. 9, NO. 2, ArRIL, 1898. 



quoting here. He says {I.e., p. 79) : — "A casual observer walking 

 along the sandy, surf-beaten beach at Madras, will probably find 

 nothing to attract his attention excepting a number of coarse shells 

 destined for the manufacture of chunam (lime), an occasional 

 flattened jelly-fish, and swift-footed crabs (Ocypoda), which on the 

 approach of man, scamper away, and disappear like rabbits into their 

 burrows. But if the same observer walks along the shore at Pamban, 

 he cannot help noticing that it is strewn with broken fragments of 

 dead coral, among which branches of madrepore are most conspicuous ; 

 and sponges washed on shore by a recent tide, or dried up above 

 water mark. And if he trusts himself upon the slimy blocks of coral 

 which are exposed at low tide, and turns them over so as to display 

 their under-surface, he will find there a wealth of marine life, crabs, 

 boring anemones, annelides, shell-fish, trepangs, (beches-de-mer), and 

 bright-coloured encrusting sponges. And the Madras beach may, 

 allowing for differences of species, be taken as fairly representative 

 of the coast of the Presidency, with the exception of the coral-fringed 

 shores of the islands which skirt the coast of the Gulf of Manaar." 



Class GASTROPODA. 

 Order OPISTHOBRANCHIATA. 

 Family BULLIDsE. 

 Bulla ampulla L. — Rather small specimens. Philippines. 



Family RINGICULIDsE. 

 Ringicula propinquans Hinds* — Five or six, quite normal. 

 Philippines. 



Order PROSOBRANCHIATA. 



Family TEREBRID^.. 

 Terebra (Euterebra) eximia Dh. — Exclusive of the new species, 

 this is the most interesting shell in the collection. It is the second 

 known specimen only, the type 1 in Mus. Deshayes being equally 

 finely marked but smaller, ours measuring 48 mm. The sculpture 

 is peculiar and very beautiful. 



Terebra (Euterebra) marmorata Dh. (PI. I., fig. 8).— Many 

 typical examples. Australia. 



Terebra (Euterebra) similis E. Sm. — Described 2 from a 

 unique individual, this being bleached. The two before us from 

 Madras, and one from Karachi (Townsend coll.), were dredged living, 

 are pale ochraceous yellow to fawn colour, and exhibit the character- 

 istic sculpture. The locality having been hitherto unknown makes 

 the discovery of these specimens of unusual interest. 



1 Reeve, Conch. Icon., Plate xxi., fig. 106. 



2 Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vol. 11, 1873, p. 265. 



