SCABRINA. 



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never met with n. lie also states* that Benson's description 

 " must have bVen taken from a dead specimen which had lost both 

 its e')idormis and operculum." In living' specimens he found the 

 shell' covered with " a scabrous dark epideriDis, radiately striated,, 

 and with raised spiral lines which, as in C. Jm/udulus, were more 

 marked in young than in adult individuals. The operculum was 

 slightlv concave externally, in consequence of the edges of the 

 whorls being raised and ragged, especially near tiie circumference; 

 internally it was smooth and m^arly flat, with a small central 

 nucleus 0. calyx is well ilibtinguished from 0. Impuluhs and 

 C pinnulifer by its smaller whorls, the strong subangulation 

 around the umbilicus, the ornamentation beneath the epidermis 

 and the markings of the epidermis itself, the raised ridges 

 surrounding the shell being fewer and much more pronounced 

 in 0. hispidulis." • i ,i c 



Stoliczka found the aiiinial "identical m torm with those ot 

 other CvclophoridfB, onlv of smaller size; when full grown the 

 bodv is black, with very long subulate tentacles, slightly thickened 

 near the tips, the rostrum is long and deeply cleft in front, the 

 foot rather elongated, posteriorlv narrowly produced and pointed ; 

 eves rather small, placed laterally at the base of the tentacles on 

 barely perceptible bulgings. The sides of the foot and the tentacles 

 are usually paler than the body, and young specimens are pale 

 crrey coloured throughout. The largest specimens found south ot 

 Moulmein measure: Diara. maj. 14; d. rain. 12; alt. testae i-2, 

 alt. ult. anfr. cum perist. 5, diam. apert. int. 4 mm.' ^ ... , 



The accompanying tigures represent a specimen in the British 

 Museum . 



42. Scabrina hispidiila, Blanfonl. 



Cyclophorus hispidulus, Blanford, J. A. S. B. xxxii, 186;], p 321; 

 id., op. cit. xxxiv. 1865, p. 97 ; Hanley & Theobald, Conch. Tnd. 



Mtjtostoma hupkliiLn, Theobald, Cat. Shells Brit. India, 1876, 



CuclopJwrus (Scabrma) kispidnlus, Nevill, Hand List, i, 1878, p. 278. 



Scabrina luspidula, Kobelt & M Ollendorff, Xachr. Beats. Malak. 



Ges xxix, 1897, p. 88 ; id., Cat. Pneum. 1899, p. IG ; Ivobelt, 



Das Tierreich, Lief. 10, 1902, p. 88. 



Original fZesmpfion :—■' Shell widely umbilicnte, subplanulatelv 



depressed, radiately striated and marked by extremely tine and 



close concentric impressed lines, white, covered with a thick dark 



brown epidermis, which forms a broad raised spiral costulation 



around the shell, more marked in young than in fully grown 



specimens. Spire almost flat, apex just exserted, suture deep. 



^Yhulls 5, cylindrical, the last descending very little near the 



aperture, which is subvertical and circular. Peri.stome double, 



inner lip continuous and projecting a lit tle; outer lip slight ly 



» J. A. S. B. xxxii, 1863, p. 322. 



