54 Beautiful Shells. 
ceive, long before man himself does, the indications 
of calm and tempest, rain and drought, etc. But 
our little Turbo, what of him? will you boil him, 
and pick out his curled-up form with a pin? or let 
him go crawling about the rocks, feeding upon the 
delicate earlier growth of marine vegetation? In 
the former case, you will have to reject the little 
kind of horny scale attached to his foot, ‘which 
forms, when he retires into his habitation, a closely- 
fitting door to make all snug. 
Several species of this genus are found on our 
shores; one of those is the Turbo rudis, or Red 
Turbo, which has a very thick periwinkle-like shell, 
about three-quarters of an inch long; the colour is 
dull red, fawn, or drab. 
Of the foreien Turbine, sometimes called Tur- 
ban Shells, we will now introduce two or three 
species, which will be found on Plate HI. Fig. 3 
is the Marbled Turbo (7. marmoratus), from the 
Latin marmor—marble; a large handsome shell 
well known to conchologists, and a native of the 
Indian seas. Fig. 4 is the Twisted Turbo (Z. 
torquatus) ; this shell, when deprived of its outer 
coat or layer, is beautifully nacreous, or, if we may 
so speak, mother-of-pearly. The specimens which 
have reached England were brought from King 
