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TURRlTlNJi. 



Genus BELA, Leach. 



Shell ovate, fusiform; surface dull, smooth, or longi- 

 tudinally ribbed ; spire elevated, shorter than the body 

 whorl ; columella flattened ; canal short ; outer lip with a 

 small sinus at its junction with the body- whorl. 



Spn. Mangilia, Loven. Defrancia, Moller. Ishnula, 

 Clark. 



Ex. B. turricula, Montagu, pi. 10, fig. 8. Operculum, 

 B. nobilis, Moller, fig. 3, «, 3, h. Shell, B. turricula, 

 fig. 3, c. 



This genus may be known by the flattened columella. 

 They are chiefly northern shells, and, like Trophon and 

 Admete, have a peculiar texture common to the shells of 

 low latitudes. 



Species of Bela. 



Beckii, Aldll. 

 brachystoma, Pfeiff. 

 cinerea, Mull. 

 cyliudracea, Moll. 

 decussata, Couth. 

 exarata, Moll. 

 fidicula, Gould. 

 harpularia, Couth. 

 Holbolii, Beck. 

 livida, Mull. 

 Molleri, Reeve. 

 nobilis, Moll. 

 obliquata, Reeve. 

 Pinguelii, Beck. 



pleurotomaria, Couth. 

 plicata, C. B. Adams. 

 puUa, Reeve. 

 rufa, Mont. 

 rugulata, Moll. 

 scalaris, Moll. 

 septangularis, Moid. 

 Trevelliana, Turton. 

 turricula, Mvnt. 

 Vablii, Mm. 

 violacea, Mich. 

 viridula, Moll. 

 Woodiana, Moll. 



