PLATE LXXI. 



TURBO LINEATUS. 



STREAKED. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal Umax. Univalve, spiral, or of a taper form. Aperture 

 somewhat compressed, orbicular, entire. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Somewhat conic. Ash colour variegated with fine streaks and 

 irregular marks of black ; a rude tooth at the top of the pillar. 



Turbo lineatus : trochiformis cinereus lineis aut lituris nigris 



insignitus, columella subdentata. Da Cofia Br. 

 Conch, p. 100. sp. 56. lab. 6. fig. 7. 



We believe this species is rather an uncommon, or at least local 

 kind on the British shores, though Da Costa says it is found on the 

 coasts of Devonshire, Cornwall, Dorsetshire, Pwllhely in Caernar- 

 vonshire, and in plenty on the coasts of Norfolk. The collection 

 of that author contains but a single specimen, it is a worn Shell and 

 indifFerently expressed by the figure above quoted. The most cha- 

 racteristic Shells of this species we have seen, we found on the rocky 



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