850 TURBO. 



Turbo singularis. Portland Cat. p. 164. lot 3559. 

 Turbo collar! praeditus. Chemnitz, x. p. 295. Vign. 24 at 



p. 293. f. A and B. 

 Limax staminea. Martyn Univ. Conch, ii. t. 71. 



Inhabits the coasts of New Zealand. Humphreys. 



This singular shell is about two inches long, and two and a half 

 broad, with the summit of the spire and the upper part of 

 the lower whirls flattish ; the whole of the outer surface is 

 covered with strong oblique crowded wrinkled strige, of a 

 dull brown colour sometimes variegated with olive. 



DELPHiNUs. 82. Shell depressed, and foliated ; 

 umbilicus large, and armed with small vault-> 

 ed scales in spiral rows. 



Turbo Delphinus. LimiiBus Syst. Nat. p. 1236. Born 



Mus. p. 351. Chemnitz, v. p. 153. t. 175. f. 1727 to 



1735. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 30. Gmelin, p. 3599. 



Schreibers Conch, i. p. 277. Brookess Introd. p. 126. 



t. 8. f. 98. 

 Turbo distortus. Born Mus. p. 352. 

 Cyclostoma Delphina. Lamarck Syst. des Anim. p. 87. 

 Le Dauphin. Favamie, ii. p. 155. t. 9- f. G I, and G 2. 

 Bonanni Rec. and Kirch. 3. f. 31. Lister Conch, t. 608. 



f. 45. Rumphius, t. 20. f. H. Petiver Amb. t. 3. f. 1 . 



Gualter, t. 68. f. C and D. Jrgenville, t. 6. f. H. Se- 



ba, iii. t. 59. f. 12 to 27. Kriorr, i. t. 22. f. 4 and 5, iv. 



t. 7. f. 2 and 3, and t. 8. f. 1. Geve, t. 4. f. 24 to 30. 



Regenfuss, i. t. 8. f. 14. 

 Variety B. With perpendicular spines on the keel of the body- 

 whirl. 



Turbo, No. 7. Schroeter Einl. ii. p. 64. 

 Chemnitz, v. t. 175. f. 1736. 

 Variety C. With the whirls detached. 

 Turbo Delphinus n?onstrosus. Chemnitz, xi. p. 292. t. 211. 



f. 2090 and 2091. 

 Inhabits the Asiatic Ocean. Linnceus. Amboyna. Rumphius. 

 Coasts of the Philippines, Isle of France, and New Guinea. 

 Favanne. China and Tranquebar. Humphreys. 

 Shell about an inch and a half long, and two inches broad, of 

 a blackish brown, red, or yellowish colour, variegated with 

 white ; the whirls are flattened above, and transversely keel- 

 ed, and marked with granulated striae ; there are two or three 

 keels on the body-whirl, and one on the spire, and the for- 

 mer are armed with more or less crowded, or sometimes 

 distant, foliated spines ; the umbilicus is very large and deep^ 



