168 PHASIANELLA. 



P. TENUIS Michaud, 1829. PL 39, figs. 77-80. 



Rather thin, shining, oval, elongated ; spire elevated, conic, com- 

 posed of 4-5 somewhat convex whorls, separated by slightly im- 

 pressed sutures ; aperture rounded oval ; columella arcuate ; color 

 yellowish or rose, with red and white flammules and decurrent lines, 

 sometimes punctate with red. Alt. 10 mill. 



Mediterranean and Adriatic; rarely on the Atlantic coast of France. 



P. intermedia Scacchi is a synonym. 



Intermediate in form between speciosa and pnlla. The sutures 

 are not so deeply impressed as in the first, and it is more eloiigated 

 than the latter. It exhibits the same color varieties as P. speciosa. 



P. PULLA Linn., 1758. PL 38, figs. 56-60. 



Shell ovate-pointed, solid, subtranslucent, more or less elongate ; 

 spire short, conic ; whorls about 4, more or less convex, with deep 

 sutures ; aperture large, short oval ; color crimson, yellowish or 

 white, above generally longitudinally flammulate with red, Avhite or 

 deep brown, below with one or more revolving serrate bands of the 

 same colors, and all over minutely punctate with red or with fine 

 oblique reddish lines. Alt. 9 mill. 



Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas ; English coast ; Canaries and 

 Azores. 



The following are synonyms : P. pidchella Recluz (PL 39«, fig. 

 20), P. punctata Risso, P. tenius Phil., P. Jiammeus Von Salis, P. 

 exigua (?) P. Hoherti and P. striata Brus., P. varians Leach, P. 

 crassa Brus., Turbo pictiis DaCosta, and P. pullulus Anton. There 

 are many color varieties ; but these are founded on such slight char- 

 acters that they are scarcely worth naming. 



Var. ELONGATA Krauss, 1848. PL 39a, figs. 23-25. 



More elongated, last whorl more drawn out longitudinally, the 

 penultimate one rather large and very convex ; coloration as in P. 

 pulla, with bold subsutural flammules, and revolving bands below. 



Cape Region, S. Africa. 



Var. STRIGATA Phil., 1853. PL 39a, fig. 13. 



Shell elongated, with yellowish-white ground-color marked with 

 narrow red lines, a subsutural series of brown flammules, and a sub- 

 median girdle of diamond-shaped red blotches ; umbilicus marked 

 by a slight fissure. Alt. 12 mill. 



Habitat unknown. 



