110 FICULA. 



gave the name F. laivigatus to F.ficus, which he was hardly 

 justified in doing. 



2. reticulata, f. 6, 7, Lamarck. — Testa superne ventri- 

 cosissima fulvo-violascens distanter prominent! lirata, liris 

 ruhro articulatis, inter liras tenuiter cancellata ; apertura 

 purpurea, margine laqueato. — Fawn-coloured, with distant 

 prominent smooth ridges, articulated with reddish spots, 

 cancellated between the ridges ; apertura purple. 



3. Dusumieri, f. 5, Valenciennes. — Testa elongato-pyri- 

 formis, tenuiter planilirata, inter liras tenuiter cancellata, 

 longitudinaliter undatim fusco strigata ; spira exsertiuscula. 

 — This graceful shell is more slender than the other species. 

 It is sculptured with close flat ridges and cancellated 

 interspaces, and striped longitudinally with wavy brown 

 lines. 



4. decussata, f. 1, 2, 3, Wood. — Testa moderate ventri- 

 cosa, fulva, distanter albo fasciata, fasciis maculis grandis 

 distant! bus ornatis ; fasciis latis, griseo nebulatis binis medio 

 et infra cincta ; liris spiralibus granosis punctatis, et minor- 

 ibus longitudinalibus cancellata. — The ridges are much less 

 prominent and distant than in Ficula reticulata. Several 

 broad bands clouded with grey and bordered with large 

 angular spots cross the shell. In the specimen represented 

 by fig. 3, this regular arrangement of bands and spots is lost 

 by the flashes of colour running into each other, and in fig. 2 

 (F. gracilis, Deshayes), the spots are comparatively small 

 and want the connecting bands. 



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