80 BOOK OF SPECIES. 



spotted with black; spots quadrangular; whorls 

 convex ; base rather long. 4. W. 28. 8/. 



P. NODiFERA. Fusiform, turreted, reddish 

 tawny ; the whorl angulated in the middle by the 

 projection of a series of oblong-oblique nodules, 

 above which they are finely striated, and beneath 

 which deeply furrowed ; tail shorter than the 

 spire. If. W. 26. 68. 



P. GRACILIS. Fusiform, turreted, with longi- 

 tudinal ribs, interrupted by a flat space at the 

 sutures, and finely striated transversely; beak 

 rather long, and slightly ascending ; fulvous, with 

 a white band round the middle of the body-whorl. 

 J...|. W. 27. 127. B. 



TURBINELLA. 



Shell turbinated or sub-fusiform, channelled at 

 base ; columella with three to five compressed 

 transverse plaits, 



T. PYRUM. Ventricose and club-shaped above, 

 pyriform, with rather a long beak ; pale fulvous, 

 with a few rows of chestnut spots; spire short, 

 finely striated, and mucronated; beak slightly 

 grooved ; lip smooth ; pillar with four plaits. 3|. 

 W. 21. 160. 



T. coRNiGERA. Ovatc, turbinate, somewhat 

 triangular, transversely furrowed, muricated all 

 over with transverse rows of thick white spinous 



