GASTEROPODA. PURPURADZ. 139 
suture) and sculptured spirally with very fine slender narrow 
lines. Height half an inch. 
Inhabits deep sandy bays in England and Ireland ; Falmouth, 
Cornwall; Saleombe Bay, Devon; Dublin, Cork, Bantry and 
Dingle Bays, Ireland. 
6. BELA ATTENUATA. 
B. testa grisea, alté turrita ; anfractibus octo ; costis elevatis, 
distantibus, albis, subflexuosis. 
Murex attenuatus, Mont. Test. Brit. 266. t.ix.f.6; M.& R. 
Trans. Linn. Soc. viii. 143; Flem. Edinb. Encycel. vii. 71 ; 
Dill. Dese. Cat. 742; Turt. Conch. Dict. 91. 
Habitat in Angliz sinubus profundis arenosis, Mus. Mon- 
tagu et nost.m Mus. Brit. Alt. } une. 
Shell grey, highly turrited, with eight whorls ; with elevated, 
distant, white, subflexuous ribs. Height half an inch. 
Inhabits the deep sandy bays of Biddeford, Falmouth and 
Dublin. 
7. BELA ACCINCTA. 
B. testa ocraceo-grisea, alté turrita; anfractibus sex, singulis 
abrupté decrescentibus ; angulis prominulis, sutura profunda 
divisis, lineolis tenuissimis, transversis, impressis sculptis. 
Murex accinctus, Laskey Trans. Wern. Soc. i. 173. t. vi. f. 
14; Turt. Conch. Dict. 91. 
Habitat in mari Caledoniensi Boreali rarissimé. Alt. 4 unc. 
Mus. D. Wilson. 
Shell ocreaceous grey, highly turrited, with six whorls 
abruptly decreasing, their angles rather prominent, divided by 
a deep suture, and sculptured with very fine narrow transverse 
impressed lines. Height 4 of an inch. 
This species is very rarely found in the northern sea of 
Scotland. 
