DELPHINULA.— Plate II. 



brown ; whorls ridged with minute scales, often 

 smooth ; angular round the upper part, angle de- 

 corated with large, curved, laciniately branched 

 appendages ; umbilicus large, armed with erect 

 prickly scales; aperture guttered at the lower part ; 

 spire depressly flat. 

 Lamarck, Anim. sans vert., vol. vi. p. 130. 



Turbo delphinus , Linnaeus. 

 Hab. Indian and Chinese Seas : 

 Cumins. 



Philippine Islands 



This, the normal species of the genus, may be distil 

 guished by its colour and broadly laciniated and branche 

 appendages. 



