524 BULLID^.. 



Auricula, ^c. Martini, Conch. Cab. vol. ii. p. [25, pi. 43, f. 442, 443. 

 Turbo oralis. Da Costa, Brit. Conch, p. 101, pi. 8, f. 2. 

 Bulimus torruitilis, Brug. Encyc. Meth. Vers, vol. i. p. 338. 

 Tornatella fasciata. Lam. Anim. s. Vert. (ed. Desh.) vol. ix. p. 41. — Johnston, 

 Report Berwick. Club, vol. i. p. 274. — Brit. Marine Conch. 

 p. 156.— Brown, Illust. Conch. G. B. p. 21, pi. 8, f. 4,5. 

 — Blainv. Man. Malacol. pi. 38, f. 5. — Crouch, Introd. 

 Conch, pi. 16, f. 8. — Kiener, Coq. Vivant. Torn. p. 5, 

 pi. 1, f. 3; transl. Storer, p. 5. — Philippi, Moll. Sicil. 

 vol. i. p. 166. — Reeve, Conch. Syst. vol. ii. pi. 206, f. 11. 

 — CuviER, Regno Anim. (ed. Croch.) pi. 45, f. 5. 

 „ iorfiatilis, Fleming, Brit. Anim. p. 336. — Macuilliv. Moll. Aberd. 

 p. 158. — Philippi, Moll. Sicil. vol. ii. p. 143. 

 Spec hi/asciatus, Risso, Hist. Nat. Europe Merid. vol. iv. p. 236, f. 107. 

 Tornatella 2>ellucida and pusilla, Macgilliv. Moll. Aberd. p. 158, 159; copied, 



Brit. Marine Conch, p. 254, and Brown, 111. 

 Conch. G. B. p. 129 (immature, teste Jeffreys, 

 from types). 

 Actceon tormdilis. Alder, Cat. Moll. Northumb. and Durh. p. 29, animal. 



The shell, which is strong and has a somewhat oval form, 

 that is acuminated above, and rotundately tapers below, is 

 of a rather glossy pale lilac red, or of a livid pinkish flesh 

 colour ; the whorls are very narrowly edged with white 

 beneath the suture. Of the two whitish or pallid fillets, 

 that are usually present on the body of our native examples 

 (though the anterior one is occasionally obsolete, and both 

 are absent in a rare Mediterranean variety), and which 

 vary as to width (yet are never very broad) in difterent 

 individuals, the ujjper which is more frequently (yet not 

 always) the narrower, and is often continued on the base 

 of the smaller turns, runs in a line with the top of the 

 aperture; the lower revolves half way between the superior 

 one and the anterior extremity. The entire exterior is 

 striated in a spiral direction : the strife, which are very 

 fine and densely disposed upon the middle of the shell, but 

 at the lower end, where their intervals are raised in a 

 somewhat costellar fashion, dilate into more distant sulci, 

 are often rendered tremulous bv the wrinkles of increase, 



