42 GARRETT: ON POLYNESIAN MITRID^. 



water on a sandy-mud flat. 



They agree closely with Reeve's description, but his 

 figure, which is a little larger than our shells, is very poor. 



The color is ashy-brown, encircled with a whitish band, 

 and the ribs vary from light yellowish-brown to brownish- 

 orange. The conspicuous transverse incised lines, though 

 generally continuous, are sometimes interrupted by the ribs. 



97. Turricula cimelium Reeve, 1. c, pi. xxxii., fig. 260. 



T. ( Pusia) nodulosa Pease. Amer. Jour. Conch., 1867, 

 p. 214, pi. XXV., fig. 5. 



A few specimens found on sandy beaches at the 

 Panmotu and Society Islands. 



Mr. Reeve's very accurate figure and description coin 

 cides exactly with our specimens, except in not mentioning 

 the fine, crowded, transverse, impressed lines or striae. His 

 figure represents the transverse, interrupted brown lines very 

 correctly. They are confined to the right slope of the 

 longitudinal ribs, and do not extend quite to the nodules on 

 the shoulder of the body whorl. 



All the specimens I sent to Mr. Pease were too much 

 worn to be of any use in identification or description. 



98. Turricula crispa Garrett. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sciences, 



1871, p. 201. 



A few specimens taken in sandy-mud a little below low- 

 water mark, inside the reefs at Upolu, Samoa Islands. A 

 single large dead example occurred in the Viti group. 



The livid color, angular whorls, crisp-like and foveolate 

 surface, and the violaceous columella are its most essential 

 characters. 



99. Turricula castanea, sp. nov. 



Shell oblong, rather thick, turreted, shining, longitu- 

 dinally plicately -ribbed, ribs somewhat angular, closely set ; 

 interspaces concave and marked by transverse impressed 



