824 TURBO. 



Le Turban. Favanne, ii. p. 52. t. 8. f. C 1 , and C 2. 

 Araenville, t. 6. f. B and O. Seha, iii. t. 74. f. 15. 



Inhabits the coasts of China and India. Chemnitz. Isle of 

 France and the Moluccas. Favanne. 



This species is about an inch and a half long, and an inch and 

 three quarters broad, and varies much in its colour and 

 markings ; some shells are greenish, clouded or spotted with 

 red, or striped with chestnut ; and others are yellow, orange, 

 or brown, variously marked with one or other of these 

 colours ; it has five or six convex more or less depressed 

 whirls, of which the body-whirl is comparatively very large, 

 and more ventricose ; the inside is silvery and iridescent. 



HELiciNUS. 21. Shell sub-imperforate, glabrous, 

 roundish, with convex whirls, and the pillar 

 thickened. 



Turbo helicinus. Born Mas. p. 348. t. 12. f. 23 and 24. 



Gmelin, p. 3597. 

 Turbo, No. 116. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 102. 



Inhabits 



Born has described this shell to be eleven lines long and fifteen 

 broad, rounded, solid, spotted with green and purple, and 

 the throat silvery ; in form the figure a good deal resembles 

 Trochm Merula, and Born has quoted Knorr, v. t. 3. f. 1. 

 vihich belongs to that species. 



COCHLUS. 22. Shell ovate, with very fine longitudi- 

 nal striee, and a transverse rib on the shoul- 

 der of the whirls. 



Turbo Cochlus. Linnaus Si/st. Nat. p. 1233. Born 

 Mas. p. 343. ? Chemnitz, v. p. 209- t. 182. f. 1805 and 

 1806. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 12. t. 3. f. 17. Gmelin^ 

 p. 3590. Schreibers Conch, i. p. 271. Brookes s Int. 

 p. 126. t. 8. f. 99. 



Le Cameleopard. Favanne, ii. p. 82. 



Lister Conch, t. 584. f. 40. Klein Ost. t. ii. f. 55. Knorr, 

 i. t. 3. f. 5. Seha, iii. t. 74. f. 30. Regenfuss, i. t. 1. 

 f. 12. Geve, t.20. f. 194. 

 Inhabits the Asiatic Ocean, and the coasts of Alexandria and 



Iceland. Limmus. East Indies, Guinea, and Frederick's 



Island. Regenfuss. Isle of France, Molucca Islands, Ba- 



tavia, and China. Favanne. 

 Shell about an inch and three quarters long, and an inch and a 



half broad, and is slightly angulated rather than ribbed on 



the shoulder of the whirls ; it is of a green or greenish 



