MEI.VII.L AND STANDEN : TEKRBRA IN THE I'ERSIAN GUI.F. 207 



T. duplicata (Linne), Hinds in Sowerby, Thes. Conch., I., p. 155, 

 pi. 41, f. 1-4. 



T. duplicata (Linne), Tryon, Man. Conch., vii., p. 17, pi. 4, figs. 

 49-51, 1885. 



Hab. : P.G., on the telegraph cable young fresh specimens have 

 often occurred. Muscat, 10-20 fathoms. M.C. Charbar, 3-8 fathoms 

 on sand and mud. 



Typical specimens of this very widely distributed and well known 

 species. By some authors the var. lamarcki Kiener is considered 

 specifically different; but with the exception of the conspicuous 

 spiral row of spots on each whorl above the sutures and at the peri- 

 phery of the body-whorl, which are not present in the type, I can see 

 no difference whatsoever between them. This variety is well figured 

 in Reeve, I.e., 3B. 



9. — Terebra edgarii Melvill. 



T. edgarii Melvill, Mem. and Proc. Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc, 

 1898, vol. xlii., no. 4, p. 9, pi. 2, fig. 12. 



T. edgarii Melvill and Standen, Proc Zool. Soc, London, 1901, 

 part I, p. 428. 



Hab. : P.G., Henjam Island (a dark form). Basadu, Bunder Abbas. 

 M.C, Astola Island, 9 fathoms. I., Karachi. 



This species is near evoluta Desh., but is quite distinct, being 

 broader in proportion towards the base, less shining, and with quite 

 a different character of longitudinal ribbing, the costse, particularly 

 in the upper whorls, being far more frequent, and giving a marked 

 character, by which it is almost at once distinguishable. The first 

 specimens procured at Karachi are much more cinereous than the 

 Bunder Abbas specimens, which are stramineous. It is a frequent 

 species throughout the more northerly area. It was named in honour 

 of Edgar A. Smith, of the British Museum (Natural History), than 

 whom no one possesses a more intimate knowledge of the Tered rides} 



10. — Terebra evoluta Desh. 

 T. evohita G. P. Deshayes, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1859, p. 292. 

 T. evoluta ,, Reeve, Conch. Icon.,xii., i860, pi. xiii., 



fig- 55- 

 T. evoluta „ Tryon, Man. Conch., vii., p. 16, pi. iii., 



flg. 47, 1885. 

 Hab. : P.G., near Koweit. I., Karachi. 



Dwarfed specimens, but 15 mm. in length, if indeed they are to 

 considered identical with the Japanese type, which measures 2*25 

 inches. But the character of the sculpture is the same, and some 



I This paper was read antecedent to the lamented death of Mr. E. A. Smith. 



