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and profusely painted ; and the operculum, which is always calcareous, so 
far, at least, as we know at present, is curiously smooth and convex on 
the outside, and spiral within. There are several species of them, and it 
is remarkable that they are all from the continent of New Holland. 
The shell of Phasianella may be described as being ovately-oblong, 
smooth and polished, with a regular elevated spire ; the aperture is oval, 
but more or less angulated at the upper part ; the columella is smooth, 
depressed, and attenuated towards the basal margin; the lip is simple, 
acute, and never reflected, the lower part being sometimes thickened. 
The operculum is calcareous and smooth, convex on the outside and 
spiral within. 
Examples. 
Pl. CCXXIII. Fig. 1 and 2. 
PHASIANELLA varia, Encyclopédie Méthodique, pl. 449. f. 1. a, b,c. 
Sowerby, Genera of Shells, No. 4. 
Buccinum Nove-Zelandiea, Favanne. 
Buccinum Tritonis, Chemnitz. 
Buccinum australe, Gmelin. 
Phasianella bulimoides, Lamarck. 
Pl. CCXXIII. Fig. 3. 
(A fossil species of Littorina, inserted inadvertently.) 
Pl. CCXXIIL Fig. 4. 
PHASIANELLA PULLUS, Sowerby, Genera of Shells, No. 4. 
Turbo pullus, Linneus. Lamarck. 
TURRITELLA, Lamarck. 
Testa turrita, longissima, angusta, anfractibus numerosis, in spiram gra- 
cilem confertim volutis ; columella levi, arcuata; apertura subro- 
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