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with two very faint plaits. Colour yellowish-white, with three interrupted, reddish-brown bands, 

 most conspicuous on the ribs, and numerous spots of the same colour on the finer lirae, base 

 of canal reddish-brown, interior of aperture white, with brown blotches on peristome, corresponding 

 to the interrupted bands. 



Alt. 24, lat. 12; apert. alt. 7, with canal 13, lat. 5 Mill. 



Mr. Melvill, to whom I sent the largest specimen, says it is allied to P. Philberti 

 and P. nassahila, but it differs by shape from both, by the smaller aperture and the much 

 more slender canal, which is more suddenly separated from bodywhorl, moreover it is more 

 distinctly 2-keeled at the periphery than in those species, and the finer sculpture and colour, 

 though similar in some parts, is quite different in many particulars. In prominence of keels it 

 remembers P. spinosa^ which is however quite different in most other respects. 



3. Peristernia pulchella Reeve. 



Reeve. Conch. Ic. Vol. IV, Turbinella, fig. 65. 



KOBELT. Martini-Chemn. Conch. Cab. Ed. II, Vol. Ill, Turbinella, p. 112, Pi. 26, fig. 10, 1 1. 



Tryon. Man. of Conch. Vol. Ill, p. 81, PI. 64, fig. 53, 54. 



Stat. 129. Kawio- and Kamboling-islands, Karkaralong-group. 23 — 34 M. Sand. 2 Spec. 

 One of the specimens is bleached and not characteristic, the other is fine. 



4. Peristernia pagodaeforniis Melvill. 



Melvill. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 7, Vol. IV, 1899, p. 89, PI. i, fig. 8. 



Stat. 51. Madura-bay. 69 — 91 M. Fine grey sand, coarse sand with shells and stones. 5 Spec. 

 Stat. 313. East of Dangar Besar, Saleh-bay. Up to 36 M. Sand, coral and mud. 8 Spec. 



The specimens from Stat. 5 1 are very young, those from Stat. 3 1 3 are quite or nearly 

 adult, their provenience from the Malay-archipelago is new as far as I am aware. 



5. Peristernia incarnata Deshayes. 



Deshayes. Voy. Arab. Laborde, PI. 65, fig. 20 — 22. 



Kiener. Coq. Viv. Vol. V, Turbinella, p. 45, PI. 18, fig. 3. 



Reeve. Conch. Ic Vol. IV, Turbinella, fig. 55. 



KOBELT. Martini-Chemn. Conch. Cab. Ed. II, Vol. Ill, Turbinella, p. 32, PI. 7, fig. 2. 



Tryon. Man. of Conch. Vol. Ill, p. 81, PI. 65, fig. 6^. 



Stat. 240. Banda. 9 — 45 M. Black sand, coral, i Spec. 



6. Peristernia carotiana Tapparone Canefri. 



Tapparone Canefrl Journ. de Conch. 1882, p. 31. 



Ann. Soc. Mai. Belg. Vol. XV, p. 79, PI. 3, fig. 15, 16. 



Kobelt. Martini-Chemn. Conch. Cab. Ed. II, Vol. Ill, Turbinella, p. 87, PI. 22, fig. 4, 5 [iishdata). 

 Tryon. Man. of Conch. Vol. Ill, p. 84, PI. 65, fig. 86 {ustulata pars). 



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