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examples and are equally as variable in color. 



It is closely related to T. Michauii in shape and 

 sculpture, but quite different in the character of the markings, 

 and the shoulder is more tabulate. The upper termination 

 of the ribs are less nodulous and the color of the columella 

 differs. 



134. Turricula putillus Pease. Amer. Jour. Conch., 1867, 

 p. 214, pi. XV., fig. 24. 



A few specimens found in beach sand at the Parfmotu 

 and Society Islands. 



Mr. Pease's type specimens, which were obtained from 

 one of the small guano islands in "Central Pacific" are a 

 little larger than our shells. 



Rubbed specimens are reddish-brown, and when fresh, 

 black or brown-black with a more or less distinct narrow white 

 zone, and most generally with a few large white spots on the 

 upper half of the shell. The whole surface is regularly 

 granulated. 



135. Turricula Peaseii, sp. nov. 



Shell elongate, fusiform, shining, ashy-grey, transversely 

 lineated with light brown and marked above with a spiral 

 ashy-white line; spire rather long, acute; whorls 9, flatly 

 convex, subangulate above, longitudinally plicately ribbed; 

 interstices concave, transversely striated with imj ressed 

 lines; base contracted, granulated, produced and slightly 

 twisted to the left; aperture a little more than half the length 

 of the shell, bluish-white stained with brown; columella four 

 plaited. 



Length 23 mill. (Mus. Godeffroy). 



Hab. Viti Islands. 



Only two examples found in sandy-mud at low water 

 mark at Vanua Levu Island. It is shaped very much like 

 T. lyrata. 



