832 TURBO. 



Eegenfiiss, i. t. 5. f. 52. Geve, 1. 14. f. 131. Chemnitz, v. 

 t. 178. f. 1773 and 1774. 



Inhabits India. LimifBus. Coasts of Coromandel. Rumphius. 



Shell live or six inches long, and the breadth rather exceeds 

 the length ; it has five whirls, of which the body-whirl is 

 comparatively very large, flattish above, and has three some- 

 Avhat oblique tuberculated transverse keels ; it is of a brownish 

 or yellowish olive colour, with paler bands, or is sometimes 

 tinged with red, particularly on the keels, and the whole in- 

 side is silvery. 



CORNUTUS. 57. Shell ponderous, longitudinally 

 wrinkled, and obsoletely ribbed transversely, 

 with two rows of large vaulted spines on the 

 body-whirl. 



Turbo cornutus. Gmelin, p. 3593. Schreibers Conch, i. 



p. 280. 

 Turbo, No, 2 1 . Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 69. 

 Os argenteum cornutum. Chemnitz, v. p. 193. t. 179. f. 



1779 and 1780. 

 La Bouche d'Argent cornue. Favanne, ii. p. 54. t. 8. f. 



G 1. 

 D'Jvila, t. 5. f. I. 

 Inhabits the coasts of China. D' Avila. 



Shell two and a half, or three inches long, and about equally 

 broad, of a greenish or dull yellowish brown colour; it has 

 five venlricose whirls, somewhat depressed towards their 

 summits, and marked with longitudinal wrinkles and irregular 

 unequal transverse ribs ; the body-whirl has two transverse 

 rows of large vaulted spines, pointing in rather opposite di- 

 rections, and these disappear on the first whirl of the spire ; 

 the pillar-lip is slightly channelled longitudinally, and the 

 whole aperture is silvery. 



RADIATUS. 38. Shell longitudinally wrinkled, with 

 the whirls rounded, distant, transversely 

 striated, and armed with small imbricated 

 spines. 



Turbo radiatus. Gmelin, p. 3594. Schreibers Conch, i. 



p. 280. 

 Turbo, No. 23. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 70. 

 Argyrostomus Maris Rubri. Chemnitz, v, p. 199. t. 180. 



f. J7H8 and 1789. 

 Inhabits the Red Sea. Chemnitz. 



