92 BOOK OF SPECIES. 



brownish white^ with commonly brown transverse 

 bands; spire exserted; beak sub-umbilicated, wide 

 and ascending. 2|. W. 25. 7» 



M. ERIN ACE us. Ovate^ sub-fusiform^ thick^ 

 with several strong varices and scaly transverse 

 ribs ; pale fulvous ; whorls angulated ; aperture 

 oval ; and the beak closed and slightly recurved. 

 B. 11 W. 25. 19. 



TRITON. 



Oval or oblong^ channelled at the base; varices 

 alternate or rare^ or nearly solitary on the 

 separate whorls; and never arranged in longi- 

 tudinal rows, or spinous ; an operculum, 



T. VARIEGATUM. Elongatcd-couic^ ventri- 

 cose beneath^ with smooth very obtuse trans- 

 verse ribs, and intermediate striae; white, with red 

 and chestnut markings ; the upper margin of the 

 whorls fimbriated ; aperture red ; pillar wrinkled 

 with white, and plaited above ; margin of the lip 

 spotted with black ; the spots bidentated with 

 white ; beak short and ascending. 15J. W. 

 27. 95. 



T. LOTORiUM. Fusiform-turreted, distorted, 

 transversely grooved, and wrinkled ; whorls an- 

 gular, and somewhat concave above, beneath 

 which project some large compressed tubercles ; 

 reddish fulvous, with the varices striped with a 



