58 GARRETT: ON POLYNESIAN MITRID^. 



136. Turricula propinqua, sp. nov. 



Shell elongately fusiform, ashy-white, spire rather long, 

 turreted, longitudinally ribbed; ribs angular, as large as their 

 interspaces, 14 on the last whorl, intersected by small trans- 

 verse ridges ; whorls 9, angulately rounded on the shoulder, 

 where two of the spiral ridges are wider apart than elsewhere 

 and slightly noduled; base strongly contracted and produced 

 into a short slightly twisted canal; aperture nearly half the 

 length of the shell; columella with five plaits, the upper one 

 remote and large. 



Length 15 mill. (Coll. Garrett). 



Hab. Viti Islands. 



A single example found in beach sand at Kioa Island. 

 It closely resembles T. modesia Reeve, but is more contracted 

 at the base, and the transverse ridges are much smaller and 

 more numerous. It is shaped very much like T. Pharaonis 

 H. Ads., which inhabits the Red Sea, but is smaller, differently 

 colored and the ribs are more numerous. 



137. Turricula rosea Swainson. Reeve, Conch. Icon., pi. 

 xxxvi., fig. 300. 



Two dead specimens found in beach sand at Anaa, 



\/J Pa^motu Islands. 



I Our two shells differ none from Reeve's description and 



figure except in having the upper portion of the last and two 



preceding whorls, white. The transverse row of small brown 



spots between the ribs, can be seen on our perfect specimen. 



Mr. Swainson's type examples were obtained in the same 



locality as our shells. 



138. Turricula rubra Swainson. Reeve, 1. c, pi. xxxv., fig. 285, 

 pi. xxxvi., fig. 298. 



l/J Several specimens found in beach sand at the Pa/imotu 



Islands, where Mr. Cuming obtained Swainson's type 

 examples. 



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