322 AMERICAN JOURNAL 



POMATIA, Leach. 

 1. Pomatia aspersa, M tiller. 



Plate 6, figure 16. 

 Subglobose, rather thin, coarsely and irregularly striate, 

 finely striate and finely wrinkled and indented ; spire obtuse ; 

 whorls 4-5, moderately convex, rapidly increasing, the last 

 very large and ventricose; aperture large, oblique, rounded- 

 lunate, lip white, sharp, a little expanded, extremities con- 

 nected by a thin callus ; umbilicus covered ; base very con- 

 vex. Yellowish or brownish, with brown bands, crossed by 

 narrow undulating flammules of yellow. 



Diam. 31, height 25 mill. 



At various places on the Coast, New Orleans, Charleston 

 Maine, Nova Scotia. (From Europe.) 



