PLATE CXXVII. 

 TROCHUS PAPILLOSUS. 



SHAGREENED TOP SHELL. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal a slug. Shell conic. Aperture nearly triangular. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Pyramidal, umbilicated, red j, whorls with several rows of minute 



granulations. 



Trochus Papillosus : pyramidalis umbilicatus ruber, series papil- 

 larum donatus. Da Costa. Brit. Conch, p. 38. 

 No. 20. 



Cul de lampe a flammes longitudinales, alternatives blanches et rou- 

 ges, a stries granuleuses et umbilique : et cul de 

 lampe marbre de blanc et de rouge, a stries cir- 

 culates granuleuses et tuberculeuses. D' Avila, 

 cab. I. p. 127, 128. 



Da Costa acquaints us that he received " some few of these shells 

 from Cornwall (in a great quantity of others, natives of that coast) 

 by an intelligent gentleman of veracity and curiosity ; but" adds that 



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