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authors, e.g., Tryon, merge this with the large T. dussumieri Kiener 

 from Isle of Hainan, China, of which the type, figured in Coq. Viv. 

 Terebraf'pX. viii., fig. 17, measures 375 inches, and the very fine example 

 of the Conch. Icon. (pi. ii., fig. 7) 4-25 inches. These little Persian 

 Gulf examples are, compared with this, veritable pygmies. 



II. — Terebra fuscobasis Smith. 



T. {Mynrella) ftiscobasis E. A. Smith, Ann. and Mag. N.H., 1877, 

 xix., p. 227. 



Hab. : P.O., Bunder Abbas, Persia (F.W.T.) "Persian Gulf," Col. 

 Pelly in Mus. Brit. M.C., Charbar. I., Karachi. 



A small, unfigured species, resembling the last in character of 

 sculpture, but not so shining, broader proportionately basally. Our 

 largest example measures but 15 mm. in length. A narrow pale red- 

 dish brown band encircles the lower whorls at a little distance below 

 the sutures, the base being fuscous. But we have seen examples 

 devoid of this character, from which the specific name was evidently 

 derived. Under a lens of considerable power the interstices between 

 the ribs are seen to be very finely striate. In evoluta they are quite 

 smooth, and also in edgarii. 



12. — Terebra fuscocincta Smith. 



T. {Myurella) fuscocincta E. A. Smith, Ann. and Mag. N.H., 1877, 

 xix., p. 228. 



Hab. : P.G., Henjam Island (F.W.T.). " Persian Gulf," Col. 

 Pelly in Mus. Brit. 



A very small species, measuring 8 mm., somewhat shining, smooth, 

 lightly longitudinally costate, costte few, ornamented with a fuscous- 

 red spiral line, a little below the sutures of each whorl, and also 

 fuscous at the base of body-whorl. This and the last were the only 

 two of the considerable number of Terebrce from this region described 

 by Mr. Smith that we had not seen when, in 1901, our first catalogue 

 was published. 



13. — Terebra gotoensis Smith. 

 T. gotoensis E. A. Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc, London, 1879, p. 183, 



pi. xix., figs. I and ia. 

 T. gotoensis E. A. Smith, Tryon, Man. Conch., vii., p. 23, pi. v., 

 figs. 85, 91. 

 Hab. : I., Karachi, 3 to 7 fathoms, stones and mud. 

 The type, which came from Japan, is represented as having the 

 spiral band unspotted. That is not the case with an undoubted example 

 we possess from Aden. The sculpture is much the same as in T. alv- 

 eolata Hinds (Conch. Icon., pi. xix., fig. 89), but the colour is cinereous, 



