EULIMA. 235 



E. suBULATA, Donovan. 



Narrowly subulate, usually pale fulvous, with an upper and 

 lower reddish yellow spiral band on each of the upper whorls, 

 and from three to six zones on the body : very rarely uniform 

 snow-white : mouth very narrow, occupying one-third the total 

 length. 



Plate XCII. fig. 7, 8. 



:StromUformis glaber. Da Costa, Brit, Concb. p. 117 (probably). 

 Turbo trifasciatus, Adams, Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. v. pi. 1, f. 13, 14 (probably). 

 „ siiLulatus, DoNOV. Brit. Shells, vol. v. pi. 172. — Turt. Conch. Diction, 

 p. 218. — DiLLW. Recent Shells, vol. ii. p. 881 (partly). — 

 Wood, Index Testae, pi. 32, f. 160. 

 Helix suhiiluta, Mont. Test. Brit. Suppl. p. 143 (not p. 142). — Maton and 

 Rack. Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. viii, p. 210. — Rack. Dorset 

 Catal. p. 55, pi. 19, f. 14. 

 „ Jlavocincta, Meg. Muhlf. Verhand. Berlin. Gesel. Nat. vol. i. pt. 4, 

 p. 216, pi. 8 (= 2), f. 6, 

 Melania Camlcssedeni, Payraud, Moll, Corse, p, 107, pi. 5, f. 11,12. — Philippi, 



Moll. Sicil. vol. i, p. 157. 

 Eulima subulata, Risso, H. N. Europe Merid. vol. iv. p. 124, f. 39 (probably), — 

 Desh, Lam. Anim. s. Vert, vol viii, p. 455, — Philippi, 

 Moll. Sicil. vol. ii. p. 134. 

 Melania Donovani, Forbes, Malac. Monens. p. 15. 

 Eulima lineaia. Sower bv, Zool. Proc. 1834, p. 8 ; Conch. Illust. Eulima, f. 13. 



Da Costa's name would undoubtedly have priority, could 

 we only positively decide which of the smaller British 

 Eulima he actually intended ; the evidence is in favour of 

 the present species, but we do not hold it advisable to 

 alter, where any uncertainty prevails, the specific appella- 

 tion by which a shell is generally known. 



This and polita are the two most opposite and distinct 

 forms of the British EvMma. The shell we are about to 

 describe has a very slender subulate form, with a very nar- 

 row base, the average length being to the breadth as four 

 to one at least. It is rarely at all arcuated, is more or less 

 thin and semitransparent, quite smooth, and of a highly 

 polished, pale fulvous tint, with three spiral zones of orange- 



