30 GARRKTTJ ON POLYNESIAN MITRID^. 



62. Mitra turgida Reeve, 1. c, pi. xxxiii., fig. 273. 



M. ericea Pease; Proc. Zool. Soc, i860, p. 146. M. _ 

 peregra Schmeltz (not of Reeve); Cat. Mus. Godeffroy, 

 No. iii., p. 33. 



Common under dead coral at the Viti, Tonga and 

 Samoa Islands, but rare at all the other groups, except the 

 Marquesas and Cook's Islands, where it did not occur to our 

 notice. 



Reeve's figure which represents a Philippine example is 

 not so much contracted at the base as noticed in South Sea 

 shells. The color is uniform pale luteous, and the transverse 

 grooves are very faintly striated parallel to the axis of the 

 shell. 



63. Mitra Ticaonica Reeve, 1. c, pi. xxiii., fig. 181. 



This rare South Sea Mitra only occurred to our notice 

 in the Viti and Society Islands, where we found several 

 examples under coral blocks on the outer reefs. 



64. Mitra telescopium Reeve, 1. c, pi. xx., fig. 80. 



Two imperfect specimens collected on the fringing reef 

 at Kioa, Viti Islands. 



They coincide well with Mr. Reeve's figure, except in 

 having the spire less produced and of a smaller size. One 

 example is colored exactly like the above mentioned figure, 

 but the two yellow bands which he does not allude to in his 

 description are paler than in his figure. The other specimen 

 has the spire and the upper third of the body whorl pale 

 flesh color. 



65. Mitra Tahitensis sp. nov. 



Shell elongate-ovate, solid, dark brown with paler shades; 

 whorls 8, flatly convex, minutely crenulated at the suture, 

 closely cancellated with longitudinal and spiral impressed 

 striae, which are most conspicuous on the upper whorls; 

 aperture less than half the length of the shell, pale brown ; 



