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terranean, from 10 to 50 f. (Scacchi and others), the 

 Adriatic (Brasilia, as O. Nagli), the iEgean, 7-41 f. 

 (Forbes and Spratt), perhaps the Red Sea (Philippi), 

 and the Canaries, 12-60 f. (M f Andrew). 



"The animal is vivacious, displays the eyes on the 

 march, and makes rapid progression. The head and 

 cloven muzzle nearly resemble those organs in Jeffrey sia 

 diaphana" (Clark, MS.). The front side of the foot is 

 fringed with microscopical aud extremely short cilia, 

 which are in a state of incessant motion when the animal 

 is crawling. Brocchi imagined that this species was 

 terrestrial or lacustrine, and belonged to the genus Au- 

 ricularia [Auricula] of Lamarck. The shell is cer- 

 tainly not very unlike Melampus bidentatus. 



It is probably the 0. plicata of Fleming — certainly 

 that of S. Wood, — and the Turbonilla plicata of Loven. 

 Scacchi described and figured it as Rissoapolita. Han- 

 lev called it 0. unidentata, myself 0. eulimoides, and 

 Leach Alvania Cranchiana. The typical form appears 

 to be the Odontostomia erythrcea of Philippi as well as 

 his 0. sicula (cf. Zeitschr. f. Mai. 1849 and 1851). 



10. O. umbilica'ris*, Malm. 



Turbonilla umbiliearis, Malm, Gotheb. k. Vet. Handl. (new series) no. viii. 

 p. 128, pi. 2. f. 10. 



Shell forming a short cone, thin, transparent, and remark- 

 ably glossy : sculpture, none except under a high microscopical 

 power, when some extremely slight spiral stride are discernible 

 in a favourable light : colour clear white, with a very faint 

 bluish tint : spire short, ending in a rather blunt and rounded 

 point, owing to the inversion of the apex : ivhorls 5-6, convex, 

 very compact, gradually enlarging ; the last occupies three- 

 fifths of the shell ; suture deep, imparting a slightly turreted 

 appearance to the whorls ; owing to the transparency of the 

 shell the periphery of each of the upper whorls appears like a 



* Umbilicate. 



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