208 EULIMIDzE. 



It is as beautiful as it is scarce. The animal is active, 

 and will not stay in the water. Ovary of a bright pink 

 hue; I did not observe it in every individual. The 

 liver is orange. No eyes could be detected, although 

 they were very conspicuous in sjjecimens of E. distort a 

 and E. bilineata (both of smaller size than the present 

 species) taken at the same time and from the same 

 ground ; nor could such organs be subcutaneous, because 

 the tissues of the animal are transparent and were 

 thoroughly examined. The shell resembles a large 

 Achatina acicula. 



5. E. subula'ta*, Donovan. 



Turbo siibulatus, Don. Br. Sh. pi. clxxii. E. subulata, F. & H. iii. p. 235, 

 pi. xcii. f. 7, 8. 



Shell awl-shaped, rather thin, semitransparent, of a polished 

 lustre : sculpture, numerous fine spiral lines, visible only under 

 the microscope ; examined as a transparent object, the texture 

 appears delicately stippled in the line of growth: colour 

 yellowish -white, variegated by narrow tawny spiral bands, 

 which are arranged on the body-whorl in 3 double sets or 

 pairs, one below the suture, another round the periphery, and 

 the third encircling the base ; these sets are sometimes more 

 or less confluent, so as to form single broad belts, or they 

 diverge near the mouth, in which latter case the outer edges 

 unite and the bands are not continued to the outer lip ; each 

 of the succeeding six whorls has only 2 bands : spire tapering 

 to a fine point: whorls 12-13, rounded but compressed, the 

 last occupying about three-sevenths of the spire : suture 

 oblique, defined by a narrow dark line: mouth contracted, 

 acute-angled above, and rounded but not much expanding 

 below ; edges thickened : outer lip folded inwards at the up'per 

 part, and slightly flexuous : inner lip reflected over the whole 

 pillar, which is decidedly flexuous : operculum very thin, pale 

 drab, and rather coarsely striated. L. 0-5. B. 0*1. 



Habitat : Coralline zone in Devon, Dorset, and Corn- 



* Awl -shaped. 



