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AMBEELEYA OEKATA, Sowcrby. (non D'Orb. nee Goldf.) 



PL 1, fig. 9. 



1819 Turbo ornatus, Sow. Min. Conch, pi. 247, figs. 1, 



2. (Littorina in Index to ditto.) 

 1860 Eucyclus Desl. Bull. Soc. Linn, de 



Korm. Y. p. 140. 

 Syn? 1844 Tarbo capitaneus, Muenster. Goldf. Petr. Germ. 



tab. 194, fig. 1. 

 1850 D'Orb. Pal. fr. Terr. Jur. 



2, Gast. pi. 329, figs. 7, 8. 

 1844 spinulosus, Mu. Goldf. Petr. Germ. tab. 



194. fig. 3. 

 .... 1850 Purpurina Bathis, D'Orb. Pal. fr. Terr. Jur. 



2, Gast. pi. 330, figs. 6—8, 

 1867 Amberleya capitanea, Moore. Somerset JN'at. His. 



Soc. Proc. XIII. pi. 6, figs. 



1—5. 



From an examination of Dundry specimens compared with 

 Goldfuss' figures, it appears to me that T. capitaneus^ Mu. cannot 

 be separated from Littorina ornata^ Sow. I have therefore 

 ventured to unite them. 



The original specimens of the Mineral Conch, ought to be in 

 the Bristol Museum, but they are unfortunately missing. Judging 

 however from such specimens as we have — compared with 

 Sowerby's figures, I should say that Goldfuss and D'Orbigny are 

 mistaken in their identification of this species. I take Purpurina 

 Bathis to be identical with the specimen which we figure ; the 

 aperture of the French type is probably a bad restoration. If 

 D'Orbigny's drawing of P. ornata is faithful, it represents 

 probably a difi'erent species. 



Those of our specimens which are worn or imperfectly preserved 

 present an appearance like the upper ones of Sowerby's plate ; 

 the aperture of his figure 2 would be probably identical in shape 

 with that of our figure, and is quite unlike any of the Continental 



