62 GARRETT: ON POLYNESIAN MITRID^. 



The five examples now before me are shaped exactly 

 like Reeve's figure and agree very well with his description. 

 The upper portion of the whorls can scarcely be considered 

 angulated as stated by the above author, but roundly 

 shouldered the same as represented in his figure, which is 

 quite distinct from the angle on concinna and crocata figured 

 on the same plate. 



The impressed striae are not fine, but on the contrary 

 are rather coarse, distant, and more like transverse linear 

 punctures than striae. The upper portion of the ribs are 

 slightly noduled. The color is pale luteous or white, encircled 

 by several chestnut-brown lines which are usually grouped in 

 pairs. 



M.y fratercula is undoubtedly the same as Reeve's species. 

 The ribs are smaller, more numerous, and their upper portion 

 is divided by an incised line, forming a row of yellowish 

 nodules. 



Animal light brown, frecked with yellowish-white, 



147. Turricula vulpecula Linnaeus. Reeve, 1. c, pi. viii., 



fig- 55«> 55^, 55^- 



We obtained a number of living examples of this 

 handsome species by digging in sandy-mud, at low water 

 mark in sheltered bays in the Viti Islands. 



None of our specimens are so large as the Philippine 

 shells figured by Reeve. The color is whitish-yellow or 

 orange-yellow, with from one to three blackish-brown belts 

 on the body whorl. Some of the specimens have the above 

 colors and markings reversed, being of a dark brown or 

 blackish-brown with yellowish or orange-yellow bands. 



The animal is delicately mottled with purple-black, gray 

 and white. The long siphon is blackish-violet, dotted with 

 creamy-white. 



148. Turricula Zebuensis Reeve (?), 1. c, pi. x., fig. 73. 



