SCALARIA.— Plate XV. 



The broad-banded Scalaria. Sliell broadly pyramidal, 

 perforated, wliite, or pale fulvous, spirally painted 

 with three brown bands, the middle one broad; 

 whorls rapidly increasing, roimded ; varices 

 numerous, thin, laminar, simple at the sutures. 



SOWERBT. 



Hah. Maheburg, Mauritius. 



Collected by Sir David Barclay on sandy mud. 

 In the white variety the very slightest indication of 

 brown bands may be detected. The Scalaria tri- 

 yasciaia of the Thesaurus is a mu^h shorter shell and 

 the bands are linear. 



Species 118. (Mus. Nobis.) 

 ScALAni\ tenuilirata. Sea. testd parvd, perforata, 

 late pyramidatd, inter varices IcEvigatd, purpureo- 

 fuscd ; anfractibus sex, ravide crescentihus, rotun- 

 dis, suiurd profundd ; varicibus crcberrimis, inm- 

 qualibus, tenuibus, reflexis, rotundati.<^. 

 The thin ridged Scalaria. Shell small, perforated, 

 broadly pyramidal, smooth, purple-brown between 

 the varices ; whorls six, rapidly increasing, 

 rounded with deep suture ; varices very close, 

 unequal, thin, reflected, rounded. 



SoWERBT. 



Hab. Japan. 



