5-4 Beautiful Shells, 



celve, long before man himself does, tlie indications 

 of calm and tempest^ rain and drought, etc. But 

 our little Turho, what of him? will you boil him, 

 and pick out his curled-up form with a pin ? or let 

 him go crawling about the rocks, feeding upon the 

 delicate earlier growth of marine vegetation ? In 

 the former case, you will have to reject the little 

 kind of horny scale attached to his foot, which 

 forms, when he retires into his habitation, a closely- 

 fitting door to make all snug. 



Several species of this genus arc found on our 

 shores ; one of those is the Turlo rv.dis, or Red 

 Turbo, which has a very thick periwinkle-like shell, 

 about three-quarters of an inch long; the colour is 

 ^ull red, fliwn, or drab. 



Cf the foreign Turlince, sometimes called Tur- 

 ban Shells, vre will now introduce two or three 

 species, which will be found on Plate III. Fig. 3 

 is the Marbled Turbo {T, marmoraius), from the 

 Latin marmor — marble ; a large handsome shell 

 well known to conchologists, and a native of the 

 Indian seas. Fig. 4 is the Twisted Turbo {T, 

 iorqitatus) ; this shell, when deprived of its outer 

 coat or layer, is beautifully nacreous , or, if we may 

 so speak, mother-of-pearly. The specimens which 

 have reached England were brought from King 



