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notch which is more or less distinct ; pillar furnished 
with plats. 
Grnus.—MARGINELLA. 
Oval-oblong, smooth ; the spire short ; the outer lip 
margined externally with avarix ; base of the aper- 
ture slightly emarginated : pillar with nearly equal 
plats. 
_ M. Donovant. Payraudeau.—Voivta Lavis. Don. 
t. 165.—D. p. 527.—Inn. T. 8. p. 133.—Erato L. 
Reeve. t. 285. f. 3.—Cypr2a Votuta. Mont. p. 203. 
never met with the shell in any cabinet. It is most 
assuredly not a Cancellaria, which Mr. Fleming 
(from whose labors I have freely drawn) has considered it 
I transcribe the description from the Testacca Brittanica, 
V. Hyatina. Mont. Sup. p. 101. ¢. 29. f. 5.— 
Pellucid, white, smooth, tapering to an obtuse point, 
with six flat volutions scarcely defined by the separating 
line ; body whorl more than half the length of the shell ; 
the aperture contracted, the base truncated and canalicu- 
lated ; outer lip smooth ; columella plicated with seven 
or eight fine thread-like striz that originate from behind 
the pillar lip, length one quarter of an inch, breadth 
more than one third its length. Dunbar. 
