TURBO. 881 



Turbo Auriscalpium. Linneeus Si/st. Nat. p. 1240. Schroe- 

 ter Einl. ii. p. 59. Gmelin, p. S6ll. 



Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnmis. 



Linnaeus, with a mark of doubt, has erroneously quoted Ar- 

 genville, t. 32. f. 19, which is a land Turbo, and has given 

 the following description : " Shell subulate, milk-white, ex- 

 tremely glabrous, with seven or eight whirls, and the aper- 

 ture dilated so as to resemble an ear-picker ; outer lip pro- 

 duced, obtuse, concave, and iparginated." My friend Mr. 

 Brookes has sent me a shell four lines long, and rather more 

 than one-fourth as broad, which in other respects answers 

 the description, but is minutely cancellated ; it has an ovate 

 aperture like that of T. politiis. 



POLiTus. 157. Shell imperforate, extremely gla- 

 brous, and the aperture ovate. 



Turbo politus. LinncBus Syst. Naif. p. 1241. Schroeter 



Einl. ii. p. 60. Gmelin, p. 3612. 

 Turbo laevis. Pennant Zool. iv. p. 130. t. 79* upper (i%. 

 Turbo albus. Donovan, v. t. 177. 

 Helix polita. Pulteney Dorset Cat. p. 49- Montagu 



Test, p 398- Maton and Racket, in Lin. Trans, viii. 



p. 210.' Dorset Cat. p. 51. t. 19- f. 15. 

 Strombiformis albus. Da Costa Brit. Conch, p. 116. 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnaus. Western coasts of Eng- 

 land. Borlase, S§c. 

 Shell sometimes five-eighths of an inch long, and two-tenths 

 of an inch broad, but is most commonly smaller; it has ten 

 or eleven highly polished flat whirls, separated by an obso- 

 lete suture, and gradually tapering to a fine point ; it is ge- 

 nerally white, but Mr. Montagu says that young shells, when 

 the animal is alive, frequently appear mottled with pink and 

 pale green. 



SUBULATUS. 158. Shell subulate, extremely glab- 

 rous, white, with yellowish transverse lines, 

 and the aperture ovate. 



Turbo subulatus. Donovan, v. 1. 172. 

 Helix subulata. Maton and Racket, in Lin. Trans, viii. 

 p. 210. Montagu Supp. p. 142. Dorset Cat. p. 55. t. 

 19. f. 14. 

 Strombiformis glaber. Da Costa Brit. Conch, p. 117. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Great Britain. Da Costa, S^c. 

 Shell about three-quarters of an inch long, and one-fourth as 



