PLATE CLXXVII. 



TURBO ALBUS, 



WHITE WREATH SHELL. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal Limax. Shell univalve, spiral, or of a taper form. Aper- 

 ture somewhat compressed, orbicular, entire. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell tapering, glossy, and white. 



Turbo Albus: testa turrita nitida alba. 



Strombiformis parvus albissimus laevis, white. Da Costa Brit. 

 Conch, p. 116. Sp. 68. 



Turbo minimus Jaevis albus. Milk white smooth whelke. Borlase 

 Cornw. p. 277. 



Turbo albus. Penn. Brit. Zool. N° 114. tab. 79 ? 



We have never met with this shell on any of the British sea coasts, 

 although we are told it is found not very unfrecruently on several of 



