LITTOUINA. 51 



L. PALLiATA, Say. 



Subglobose, smooth, not solid ; whorls convex ; body rounded ; 

 basal confluence of the two lips not broad ; outer lip acute and 

 much arcuated. 



Plate LXXXIV. %. 8, 9, 10. 



Turbo palliatus. Say, Joum. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philadelpli. vol. ii. p. 240. 

 Litiorinu jmlliata, Gould, Invert. Massach. p. 261, f. 176*. — Philippi, Neue 

 Conch, vol. iii, p. 68, Litt. pi. 7, f. 27, 28, 29 (well). 



The only two native specimens of palliata, which we 

 have ever examined, those delineated in our engravings, 

 were taken on the coast of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, 

 by our friend Mr. Metcalfe. Both these individuals having 

 been lost by our engraver, we are compelled to derive 

 our outline of the distinctive characters from examples 

 sent us from the United States, where the species is 

 most abundant. 



Shell subglobose, broader than long, not at all flat- 

 tened underneath, not solid, yet moderately strong, vari- 

 able in colouring, olivaceous yellow, or brownish red ; 

 tint either uniform, or banded, or reticulated with the 

 darker hue. Surface smooth, or at most densely and 

 spirally striolate. Whorls about five, those of the spire 

 convex ; the first two or three extremely small, the penult 

 very large in proportion to them ; the body rounded, and 

 occupying from two-thirds to three-fourths of the entire 

 length, its basal declination not at all angulated, but 

 abruptly though arcuatedly sloping. Suture very narrow. 

 Mouth capacious, suborbicular, scarcely longer than 

 broad, usually occupying about two-thirds of the shell in 

 the adult, but a less proportion in the young, usually 

 chocolate-brown, broadly rounded below. Outer lip very 



