GASTROPODA. 4] 
PHASIANELLA CAPENSIS, Dunker, Krauss, Sudafr. Moll. 
p- 104, pl. 6, fig. 5.—Port Elizabeth, Simon’s Bay, Table 
Bay, &e. 
PHastaNELLA Kocam, Philippi, Krauss, Sudafr. Moll. 
p. 104, pl. 6, fig. 4—Port Elizabeth, Simon’s Bay, Table 
Bay, «ce. 
PHASIANELLA ELONGATA, Avrauss, Sudafr. Moll. p. 104, 
pl. 6, fig. 3.—Cape (Krauss), Port Elizabeth, &e. 
PHASIANELLA PULLUS, var. P. tenuis (Philippi), Sowerby, 
Thes. Conch. vol. v. pl. 476, fig. 30.—Cape coast (Krauss). 
PHASIANELLA BICARINATA, Dunker, Tryon, vol. x. p. 176, 
pl. 39a, fig. 10.—Cape (Dunker). I am not acquainted with 
this species. It has an abnormal look. 
PHASIANELLA NERITINA, Dunker, Krauss, Sudafr. Moll. 
p- 105, pl. 6, fig. 6; Thes. Conch. vol. v. pl. 476, fig. 10.— 
Cape (Krauss). 
TuRBO coroNnatuS, Ginelin, Thes. Conch. vol. y. pl. 498, 
fig. 51.—Natal coast (Krauss). Distribution: Red Sea to 
the East Indian Archipelago. 
Turbo sarMaTicus, Linn., Thes. Conch. vol. v. pl. 497, 
fig. 43. = classiariws (Gray).—Port Elizabeth and various 
parts of the South African coast. 
TuRBO criparRIs, Gmelin, Thes. Conch. vol. y. pl. 496, 
fig. 35, var. C. natalensis (Reeve), Conch. Icon. (Turbo) 
sp. 1; Thes. Conch. vol. v. pl. 497, fig.44. Turbo natalensis 
has not only been considered specifically distinct from 7’. 
cidaris, but it has been placed in a different genus on ac- 
count of the curiously tufted granulation of the operculum. 
After comparison of a large number of specimens, Mr. Pon- 
sonby, Professor Gwatkin, and I have come to the conclusion 
that it is a mere variety. The shells vary a good deal, from 
a strongly-ribbed growth to perfectly smooth, also in the 
height of the spire, &c., but they cannot be separated by 
any reliable character. In the operculum the size of the 
granulation and more or less perforated centre seem to vary 
indiscriminately. Then, as to the animal, Mr. Gwatkin 
says: ‘A careful examination of 7. cidaris and natalensis 
leaves me at a loss for any clear difference of dentition. The 
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