102 SPECIFIC 



Inhabits nearly all seas. 



Fig. 2. S. Auris Diance. 



Shell having the outer lip mucronate ; back mu- 

 ricate ; tail erect, acute. 



Lister Conch, tab. 872. fig. 78. 



Specimen white; back pale brown with whitish 

 spots, towards the extremities and margin purplish ; 

 interior of the outer lip flesh -colour ; columella 

 white, crowned with two rows of tubercles. 



Inhabits Asia. 



Fig. 3. S. Urceus. 



Shell having the outer lip attenuated, retuse, 

 short and striated, body and spire with tubercu- 

 iated plaits, aperture two-lipped, unarmed. 



Lister Conch, tab. 857- fig. 13. 



Specimen white with livid spots, forming two 

 obsolete bands ; inner lip ochraceous with darker 

 striae, the striae of the outer lip brownish purple ; 

 tubercles on the lower whorl flat on one side. 



Inhabits the Indian Ocean. 



Fig. 4. S. palustris. 



