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*** T. tmritä, apice acuta, transveisim striata, lateo-nibente , fiammnlis pnnctatis longitndinalibns 

 spadiceisp'.ornatä ; anfr. conveximscnlis ; colnmellä rubente. Long. 30, lat. 10 mill. Habit. ? (Desh.) 

 ***• T. imperforata, cylindraceo-tnrrita, multispirata, calcareo-alba. Spira regularia, lente accrescens, 

 summo decollato, sutnrä subimpressä , filari. Anfr. remanentes 7 (restituti 12 — 14) plano-con- 

 vexi, superi liris 5 costnlis validis secatis circumdati, ultimns ad basin lineia spiralibus 4 in 

 columeUam^müioribus; omatus. Apert, angusto-ovalis , margine dextro rufo, infrä arcnatim 

 snbproducto,i;sinistro|laminä tenni callosä vestito; columella crassiuscula, angulatim in margi- 

 nem basalem curvata. Long, (restituta) 26, diam. 6.5 miU.; apert. long. 6.5, lat. 3 nüU. An 

 subfossilis? — Tiberias (Mouss.) 

 ***** T.^elongata, fusiformis, tenms, peUucidior, corneo-albida , puncturis rnbris in lineis longitndina- 

 libns^dispositis ornata, costulis numerosis spiralibus exarata. Anfr. 12 'sed apice saepe eroso; 

 anfr. convexiusculis , smnmis solis costnlis longitndinalibns (sicut in M. tubercnlatä) scnlptis; 

 apert. subeUiptica, coarctata, effusa; columella alba. — Long. 21, diam. 5; altera 17, lat, 31/2 

 miU. — Fontes ad mare mortnum. (Tristr). 

 ****** T. subnlato-turrita, striata, tennis, subpellucida , laete viridis, maculis rubris raris indistinctis 

 ornata, apice pallida; anfr. 12 (apex ipse deest.) convexi, suturä impressä divisi, striis spirali- 

 bus regularibus ornati, superiores longitudinaliter plicati, plicis versus partem inferiorem an- 

 fractuum evanidis; apert. ovata, intus coerulans, basi effasa; margo dexter sinnatus, ad basin 

 late productus; columella crassa, torta, alba. Long. 36, lat. 10. Apert. alt. 10, lat. 6 mill. — 

 Pondichery. (B.) 

 ******* Shell devoid of apex, the spire being invariably much eroded; general appearance that of M. 

 pyramis, but diäers in being coarser, in wanting the strong and prominent longitudinal 

 furrows which charakterise that speoies and which are observable throughont its length; the 

 outer lip also has a tendency to be more produced, while the flame-shaped streaks of oolou- 

 ring are narrower, closer and less devious or zig-zag, often becoming bifid or pronged on the 

 body-whorl; epidermis pale oUve-green or oHve-brown, ornamented with close, narrow, irregulär 

 transversa darks. General number of whorls in eroded and decoUated specimens five, though 

 9 — 10 would appear to be the correct number ; wrinkled transversely by coarse lines ofincrease; 

 the Upper angle of the aperture is never so acute as in M. pyramis and the sutures are 

 deeper and whorls more tumid at their junction. — Not peculiar to Afghanistan being first dis- 

 covered by me in 1836 in a garden tank at Pinjore below Simla; Pinjore Shells (5. whorls) 

 measure Ifija inch. and are flner than Afghan specimens which do not exceed l.s/g inch. M. py- 

 ramis from Dadur (Ganget. prov.) measures no more than I.1/2 in. for 12 whorls. (H.) 

 ******** T. turrita, solidiuscula , oHvacea, anfr. 6—7 convexi, striis spiralibus rugis longitudinalibus re- 

 gulariter ornata, ad suturam fusco-maculata ; apert. ovato-oblonga, intüs coeruleo-albida, columella 

 rotundata; peristomium valde productum, arcuatum. — Long. 35, lat. 10; apert. alt. 10, lat. 

 5 mill. (specim. max.); var. minor: deeoUata nigrescens , intüs coernlea. Long. 22 lat. 7; 

 apert. alt. 7, lat. 4 miU. — Ceylon. (Dohm.) 



********* T. oblonga, conioa, apice trnncata, longitudinaliter costata, transversa striata, nigra, anfr. 5 

 convexis, primario dimidiato, suturis impresso-cavis. — Long. 71/2 lignes. — Timor. (Lam.) 



********** C. brievement tnrriculee, terminee en cone allonge, ä spire composee de 6 tours, les 5 premiers 

 un peu plus longs que le dernier; celni-ci mediocrement ventru, convexe; tous separes par une 

 ligne spfrale peu marquee. Les tours sont cöteles tres legerement dans la ligne verticale et 

 tous sont finement stries dans le sens de la spire ; les stries sont legerement convexes, arrondies 



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