EBURNA.— Plate T. 



infra suiuras, maculis ovatis mvioribus medio pictd, 

 umbiliro violascente, apice nigricante. 



The Ceylon Eburna. Shell ovately conic, ilceply and 

 largely umbilicated, spire acuminated, sutures never 

 channelled, whorls convexly slanting, smooth ; white, 

 painted beneath the sutures with large sinuated ful- 

 vous-bay blotches, in the middle with smaller oval 

 spots of the same colour, umbilicus tinged with 

 violet, apex blackish. 



Lamarck, Anim. sans vert. (Deshayes' edit.) vol. x. p. 333. 

 Bucciinnu Zaylanicum, Bruguiere. 



Hab. Ceylon. 



Distinguished by its regidar conical growth, without 



the sutures being in any degree caualiculated. 



Species 9. (Mus. Cuming.) 



Ebukna Valentiana. Ebttrn. testa globoid, crassiuscidd, 

 imperforatd, spird peculiarittr demend, suturis pro- 

 funde canaliculatk, apice aciito, anfractibus rotundatis, 

 lavibus ; albd, maculis fulvo-spadiceis, promiictM tongi- 

 tudinaliter miuatis et undatis, pictd. 



Valentia's Eburna. Shell globose, rather thick, im- 

 perforated, spire peculiarly sunk, sutures deeply 

 channelled, apex sharp, whorls rounded, smooth ; 

 white, painted with fulvous-bay spots, promiscuously 

 longitudinally sinuated and waved. 



Swainson, Zoological Illustrations, vol. iii. pi. 14-1. 



Hah. Red Sea. 



A very distinct species, named in honour of Lord 



Valentia, afterwards Earl of Mount Norris. 



