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striate, with remote brown irregular spots. Three inches long. 
Inhabits the Chinese seas. 
Genus 28.—RANELLA.— Lamarck. 
Generic Character .—Shell oval or oblong-, sub-depressed 
with distichous varices, and canaliculated at the base; aperture 
rounded or ovate ; varices straight or oblique, situated at inter¬ 
vals of half a volution, forming a continuous longitudinal row 
on each side. 
Ranella spinosa.—- The Prickly Ranella. 
Plate LXXXV. fig. 1. 
Ovate, depressed, with acute, short, distinct, muricated tuber¬ 
cles ; fawn-coloured; varices lateral, with elongated spines *, 
beak sulcated; outer lip internally crenated. Two inches and 
an eighth long. Inhabits the Indian ocean. 
Genus 29* — STRUTHIOLARIA.— Lamarck. 
Generic Character. — Shell ovate; spire produced; aperture 
oval, with a sinus, terminated at the base by a very short, 
straight canal without any notch; pillar lip callous, spreading; 
margin of outer lip sinuous, with an exterior ridge. 
Struthiolaria nodulosa. — The Nodulous Struthiolaria. 
Plate LXXXV. fig. 2. 
Ovate, grooved and striated transversely; top of volutions 
flattened and nodulous; cream-yellow, with undulated brownish- 
yellow longitudinal lines; lip yellow-orange within. Three 
inches long. Inhabits New Zealand. 
Sub-Division II.—Without a constant ridge on the outer lip. 
Genus 30. — PYRULA.— Lamarck. 
Generic Character. — Shell sub-pyriform; base with a canal, 
ventricose above, destitute of external ridges; spire short, 
sometimes obtuse; columella smooth; outer lip without a notch. 
Pyrula ficus.— The Fig Pyrula. 
Plate LXXXV. fig. 3. 
Spire very short; volutions rounded above; yellow-brown, 
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