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ribbed, costse straight, rather incrassate, painted pale fawn colour, at 

 first whitish below the sutures, followed by a deep indigo narrow band, 

 and in the centre of each whorl a circle of reddish spots, arranged as 

 a band. Measurement of the largest example we have seen 20 mm., 

 but the usual size is 15 mm. longitudinally. 



17. — Terebra nana Deshayes. 



T. nana G. P. Deshayes, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, p. 291. 



T. nana G. P. Desh., Reeve, Conch. Icon., i860, pi. xxvi., fig. 138. 



Hab. : P.G., Jask, Henjam Island, Basadu. I., Karachi, 3 fathoms, 

 among mud and stones. 



A small, shining shell, almost smooth as regards the lower whorls, 

 closely ribbed in the upper, palest straw colour, sometimes spirally 

 red spotted centrally. It seems near T. capensis Smith. 



18.— Terebra nitida Hinds. 



T. nitida R. B. Hinds, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1843, p. 152. 



T. ftitida ,, Reeve, Conch. Icon., xii., pi. xxii., fig. 115, 



i860. 



T. nitida „ Hinds in Sowerby, Thes. Conch., i., 164. 



T. nitida „ Melvill and Sykes, Proc. Malac. Soc, iii., 



p. 43, pi. iii., fig. 8. 



Hab. : P.G., Henjam Island. 



One example only. It differs from T. lepida Hinds in its depressed 

 spiral sulcus a little way below the sutures, punctate at each inter- 

 stice. It measures over \\ inch in length, is very smooth, and the 

 ribs are of the same character as the species just mentioned and its 

 near ally T. strigilata (L.). 



19.— Terebra pellyi Smith. 



T. pellyi E. A. Smith, Ann. and Mag. N.H., 1877, xix., p. 226. 



T, pellyi E. A. Smith, Melvill and Standen, Proc. Zool. Soc, Lon- 

 don, 1901, part I, p. 428, pi. xxi., fig. 10. 



Hab. : P.G., Gahg Island, Jask. " Persian Gulf," Col. Pelly in 

 Mus. Brit. M.C., Charbar. I., Karachi, 3 to 7 fathoms, mud and 

 stones. 



Another small species, attaining 15 mm. only in length, endemiGijnj 

 this region. Cinereous, many ribbed, spiral sulcus distinct, ,and 

 crossed by many, close striae ; a resemblance exists to T. cognata 

 Sni. and T. ai/ibrosia Melv., but the whorls are straighter and form, 

 more compact, there being not much sutural impression. 



20. — Terebra persica Smith. 

 T. persica E. A. Smith, Ann. and Mag. N.H,, 1877, xix., p. 225. 



