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of the outer lip is white, thick, sloped to an edge, marked 

 with strong transverse lines within, and occasionally a few of 

 the cancellations are of a white colour. 



Animal. Mantle moderately fleshy, quite white, even Avith 

 the margin of the aperture, except the exsertion of a not very 

 long branchial siphon, which however often floats beyond the 

 limits of the canal ; in the example examined, its colour was 

 pale drab with a tinge of yellow. The head, if it may be said 

 to exist, is of the true muricidal type, scarcely interrupting 

 the junction of the tentacula by the intervention of the pro- 

 boscidal fissure. The tentacula are of moderate length, formed 

 of strong pedicles of more than half their extent, on Avhich, at 

 the external angles, the large black eyes are fixed ; the sum- 

 mital portions are attenuated. The foot is slender, very 

 pointed, and, when extended, as long as the shell (this is not 

 often the case) , anteally deeply grooved or labiated, with short, 

 but well arcuated, auricles. The ground colour of the foot 

 and tentacula is subhyaline- white, aspersed with very minute, 

 intense flake- white round spots, not larger than sand points. 

 There is no operculum. The animal is an elegant creature, 

 but singularly apathetic, though observed an hour after cap- 

 ture. 



Habitat, in the offing at Exmouth, six miles from the shore, 

 in 10 fathoms water, in shelly muddy sand. 



