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and with a slender filiform appendage near the tip. Operculum 

 none. 



Fam. Tritoniad^. 



The animals of this family are intermediate in character between 

 the ProboscidifercB and the Rostriferce. The proboscis is larger and 

 thicker than in the other families of the Proboscidifercey is not so 

 much retracted, and is contained in a more free sheath, and the end 

 of the retracted trunk is often partly exposed beyond the margin of 

 the sheath, giving the animal somewhat the external appearance of 

 the Rostriferce, and explaining why some of the French figures of 

 the animals of Triton, Ranella, &c. are represented as if they be- 

 longed to that division of the Gasteropods. 



Ranella c^lata. 



Tentacles lateral, separated by a short, rather broad, truncated 

 tubular veil ; eyes on the outer side rather above the base ; proboscis 

 short, very large and thick, retracted to the edge of the veil, leaving 

 the two rounded pale processes of its apex exposed, forming with the 

 veil a rostrum-like projection, very unlike the elongate, slender, 

 cyhndrical retracted proboscis of Murex, Purpura, &c. ; hngual 

 membrane narrow, elongate ; teeth in seven series, 3 * 1 • 3, close 

 together, rather crowded, the central rather narrow, with a central 

 prominent denticle, having a smaller one on each side of the base ; 

 the lateral teeth subulate, curved. 



SCUTIBRANCHIATA RhIPIDOGLOSSA. 



Fam. TuRBiNiD^. 



Imperator, n. s. ? Panama. 



Eye-pedicel thick ; tentacles elongate, slender ; frontal lappets trun- 

 cated, broad at the base, about i the width of the forehead ; foot 

 folded longitudinally behind and transversely in front ; lateral fringe 

 of the right side most distinct ; muzzle produced, annulated ; lingual 

 membrane elongate, rather narrow, linear, dark brown ; central teeth 

 5 • 1 • 5, the middle one broad, the side ones narrower, square, all with 

 a recurved tip ; the lateral teeth numerous, hairlike, the inner one 

 wider. 



Callopoma saxosum. Panama. 



Foot folded across in the middle ; back with a hoodlike process 

 covering the front part of the operculum, and depositing the external 

 callosity of it ; eyes on short thick pedicels ; tentacles linear, at the 

 upper edge of the eye-pedicel ; frontal lappet truncated, narrow at 

 the base, at the inner side of the base of the tentacles ; lateral fringe 

 on each side, with three beards on the middle of the edge ; lingual 

 membrane broad, elongate ; central series 5 • 1 • 5 ; the central broad, 

 with a recurved tip, the lateral one more narrow, equal ; the lateral 

 teeth numerous, hairlike. 



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