56 GARRETT: ON POLYNESIAN MITRID^. 



Reeve's name with a doubt, using mine as a synonym, which 

 latter can be retained if it should prove to be new to science. 



In order to assist in clearing up the doubt, I subjoin 

 the following description : — 



Shell solid, ovate, ventricuse, slightly shining, rapidly 

 tapering towards the base, longitudinally plicately ribbed ; 

 ribs rather small, decussated with impressed lines and granu- 

 lated near the base ; whorls 9-10, planulate, angulately 

 shouldered ; aperture half the length of the shell, bluish- 

 white, varied with brown ; columella four-plaited ; outer lip 

 crenulate; color dingy-brown, with two pale transverse lines; 

 upper whorls whitish. 



Length 22 mill. (Mus. Godeffroy). 

 133. Turricula pulchra, sp. nov. 



Shell acuminately turreted, solid, subfusiform, slightly 

 shining, contracted and obliquely grooved towards the base, 

 which is somewhat twisted; whorls 9-1 1, nearly flat, angular- 

 ly shouldered, longitudinally plicately-costate, costse smooth, 

 12 to 14 on the body; interstices with fine longitudinal striae 

 and with or without transverse impressed lines; columella 

 four-plaited ; aperture about two-fifths the length of the shell. 

 Color variable; whitish, bluish-white, ashy-blue, ashy-green, 

 brown with pale ribs, and generally with four or five 

 tramverse fillets of small alternately orange-yellow and brown 

 spots; some of the dark examples have a whitish spiral line 

 and the articulated fillets are nearly obsolete; aperture and 

 columella brownish with a pale zone above. 



Length 18, diam. 6 J mill. (Coll. Garrett). 



Hab. Viti and Samoa Islands. 



About 30 fine living examples were obtained by digging 

 in sandy-mud at low water mark at Kioa, Viti Islands, and 

 a few smaller ones at the Samoa group. Specimens from 

 the latter group are only about half the size of the Viti 



