92 BOOK OF SPECIES. 
brownish white, with commonly brown transverse 
bands; spire exserted ; beak sub-umbilicated, wide 
and ascending. 23. W. 25. 7. 
M. ERINACEUS. 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. 
Be ite: 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. vVARIEGATUM. Elongated-conic, 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. 153. W. 
27. 95. 
T. Lororium. 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 
